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Best "Western World" post WWII Bomber
| Post-War Discuss Best "Western World" post WWII Bomber in the Other Eras forums; which is/was best??... |
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Best "Western World" post WWII Bomber
"Reminds me of the time I sank the Tirpitz" comments a Spitfire pilot, "One pass of course, old boy."
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Post-WW2 - this should be in the other forum. this is for modern planes, classified by being after Vietnam, ill move it later
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that's for your opinion............
"Reminds me of the time I sank the Tirpitz" comments a Spitfire pilot, "One pass of course, old boy."
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Bomer is spelled with a B in the middle...
BOMBER.....
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No doubt - Avro Vulcan - okay, it had a smaller bomb load, but apart from that it could do all the things a B52 could, and was far more manouverable. I wonder how it would developed, had Skybolt not been cancelled? Maybe a vastly upgraded version would still have been in service today?
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Avro Vulcan's are great planes 
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I remember in the Eighties seeing several of them lined up in a row by the perimeter wire - impressive stuff!
Mind you, you need to see, hear, and feel one take off. I've never heard such a racket in my life, and the sight of this huge Vulcan lifting off the tarmac - brilliant! 
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Lucky...
Like a lot of planes, I didnt know they existed until about a year ago 
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I've seen a Vulcan fly too, its an awe-inspiring sight. Im not sure if you can class it as being 'better' than the B52 tho, it doesnt have such an extensive combat record, so it remains a 'what-if' 
"Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind;
and therefore never send to ask for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee" - John Donne, Meditation XVII
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To be sure, it's all hypothetical, the job it was designed to do was thankfully just a 'what if'.
Nah, what I was getting at was that the manouverablity of such a big crate was astounding, it could even outfly EE Lightnings, which in turn proved more than a match for the Phantom.
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Very true I was just thinking in terms of actual action they'd seen, the B52 was a nuclear bomber by design, but it managed to carve itself a new niche with the Arc Light raids in Vietnam. It would have been interesting to see how the Vulcan survived such a drastic change in its mission profile.
"Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind;
and therefore never send to ask for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee" - John Donne, Meditation XVII
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Originally Posted by
Medvedya Mind you, you need to see, hear, and feel one take off. I've never heard such a racket in my life, and the sight of this huge Vulcan lifting off the tarmac - brilliant!
I saw one fly at an air show here, about twenty years ago.
It was an impressive display! 
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B-36 is good also Did it ever see any form of combat?
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No. It was only in service for eight years, before being replaced by the B-52. It never saw combat.
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I believe some were later converted to RB-36 standard and used in recon overflights of Communist territory. Of course, the USAF does not count this as combat as the overflights never happened 
"Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind;
and therefore never send to ask for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee" - John Donne, Meditation XVII
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