One day when I lived up north outside of Boston I was out working on my
house, up on a 28ft ladder near the peak of the back side of the old
Vicky. I heard this godawful roar and the house was shaking and I
thought an earthquake had hit or something, when about 300ft above the
house this black B-52 materialized. I damn near fell off the ladder.
There was an airshow at Hanscom Field, maybe 15mi away, and this thing
was doing a fly-by to entertain the crowd. I guess the pilot decided to
stay below the Logan traffic or something by flying low and slow. It
was impressive.
--R
On 8/29/12 6:14 PM, WILTON wrote:
I don't have any influence any more, not even much on SWMBO.
'Tried coupla months ago to get a B-52 flyby to commemorate crash of
B-52, near detonation of 2 nuclear weapons and loss of 3 crewmen near
here 51 years ago. 'Had to apply to SECAF (Secretary of the Air
Force) - turned down flat - money, fuel, not big enough
crowd/audience, etc. Forty five years ago, I flew such a "mission"
for a "crowd" of one - my mother, but since the fool pilot, LtCol
Holland, crashed "hot dogging" a B-52H at Fairchild AFB, WA, in '94,
and very high cost of fuel, etc., "things" have changed.
Lotsa vehicle-hauling "training" flights to Middle East, BTW.
Wilton
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