B 52 and Napalm ? New Question

GMorrison

Glue the windshield together, sand it smooth and paint it black. There's nothing to see inside- the flight deck is completely innaccurate.

 

Ken,

You might be interested in this article from my morning paper:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/06/us/b-52s-us-air-force-bombers.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&region=CColumn&module=MostEmailed&version=Full&src=me&WT.nav=MostEmailed&_r=0

Mike

My old friend Airman Jim, who was an electronics tech and worked on these at Barksdale, always said that set was wildly innacurrate. Seemed to really bother him. Didn't matter much to me.

Nice article, Mike. I like that; rook on the chessboard.

One time I was flying up to Boise in a United 727. The captain came over the PA and said that passengers should look out and down on the right side, and folks over on the left stay put you'll get your turn.

We crossed over a BUFF flying east-west, probably 3000 feet below us. Very very impressive.

I was doing field work in 1993 out in New Mexico near Silver City. I was buzzed by a pair of F/A-18. Scared the stuffing out of me. I felt the ground vibrating and thought it was an earthquake and I caught the Hornet in my eyes just before the sound wave came through the air. I was bug eyed the rest of the day. 

GMorrison

My old friend Airman Jim, who was an electronics tech and worked on these at Barksdale, always said that set was wildly innacurrate. Seemed to really bother him. Didn't matter much to me.

 

Nice article, Mike. I like that; rook on the chessboard.

One time I was flying up to Boise in a United 727. The captain came over the PA and said that passengers should look out and down on the right side, and folks over on the left stay put you'll get your turn.

We crossed over a BUFF flying east-west, probably 3000 feet below us. Very very impressive.

 

A friend of mine was painting a radio tower in the '60's between Mountain Home and Boise.  They watched a B-52 taking off from Mountain Home AFB.  They were looking down at it as it went by.

One day we had a briefing from a guy From S.A.C.

He went over various things the B-52s were doing, some of the places they were hitting and a couple ways they did it.  One thing he mentioned was that they normally bombed from about 40,000 feet.  At that altitude the bombs would actually bury themselves before they went off and would churn up the land, destroying tunnels in the process.  The enemy would normally not know the BUFFs were there until the ground went up.

Here's a few shots I took on my first tour.  They might help.