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Never Ceased To Be Amazed
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| trapezius wrote: |
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| Of course, VS, you'd NEVER have an idea what a B-52 sounds or looks like! |
That took me back to the 1st Gulf War... low-flying B-52s were a weekly sight from our balcony in Jeddah. I had just turned a teenager a few months prior  . |
Yeah...the k.o.p. wuz really keepin' it a secret that KAAA had become Barksdale A.F.B. East...
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veiledsentiments
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| Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2010 2:12 am Post subject: |
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| Never Ceased To Be Amazed wrote: |
Of course, VS, you'd NEVER have an idea what a B-52 sounds or looks like!  |
Oh boy are you wrong on this one. (or were you joking?) I don't need to listen to any youtube. I grew up 19 miles south of a major SAC base where the majority of B-52s are based in the US. Many is the time that they used my hometown for pretend bombing runs. (at least they haven't dropped anything yet)
Truth be told, I saw one today... making a lazy circle. But, it is obviously an optical illusion. Nothing that big could really fly.
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Never Ceased To Be Amazed
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| Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2010 2:24 am Post subject: |
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| veiledsentiments wrote: |
| Never Ceased To Be Amazed wrote: |
| Of course, VS, you'd NEVER have an idea what a B-52 sounds or looks like! |
Oh boy are you wrong on this one. (or were you joking?) I don't need to listen to any youtube. I grew up 19 miles south of a major SAC base where the majority of B-52s are based in the US. Many is the time that they used my hometown for pretend bombing runs. (at least they haven't dropped anything yet)
Truth be told, I saw one today... making a lazy circle. But, it is obviously an optical illusion. Nothing that big could really fly.
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Yeah...that was a HUGE tongue-in-cheek (You know better than that!  ) statement! I didn't want to mention where you were from on the board, but you did. Get that everybody...VS grew up near a military base...that oughta narrow down anybody's search!
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veiledsentiments
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I'm not really sure why anyone would care where I grew up. I barely care.
It is like how my students would try to figure out my age. They would try asking innocent questions like how old were you when you got a driving license. Then a couple weeks later another student would ask how long I'd been driving. They thought that they were so clever.
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scot47
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| Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2010 11:34 am Post subject: |
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| Dwight Eisenhower was right in his predictions about the Military Industrial Complex. Can Armageddon be far off ? |
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Never Ceased To Be Amazed
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| Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2010 3:52 pm Post subject: |
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| scot47 wrote: |
| Dwight Eisenhower was right in his predictions about the Military Industrial Complex. |
So wuz George Washington when he warned of "foreign entanglements"...
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| Can Armageddon be far off ? |
Only when people seek battle in the land between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers...
...ewww...yeah...
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scot47
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| At the town they call Megido on the plain of Esdraelon ?? |
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Kipling
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| Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2010 4:39 pm Post subject: Still falls the rain...................... |
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What this all adds up to is some great FMS jobs for those of us who have Aviation English creds/experience.
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Lesson 1. How to say 'Bombs Away !!!'
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Never Ceased To Be Amazed
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"You have munitions release authority"!!! Seriously, this vocabulary is required...
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scot47
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| I remember the B-52's taking off from Jeddah. I was teaching at the SAMAREC Training Centre, right under the flight path. |
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