hill.
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>Wilton
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>From: "Loren Faeth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> > Thanks Wilton!
At 7:26 PM -0400 8/19/08, Wilton Strickland wrote:
>I flew a LOT of LOW level; I
>"pounded" my students all the time about the altimeter - ya can't get much
>airspeed spread over the side of a hill.
Altitude above you, runway behind you and fuel back at the airport... ;)
(three most useless thi
of a hill.
>
> Wilton
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--- Original Message -
From: "Loren Faeth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Mercedes Discussion List"
Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 6:27 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT - B-70, B-52, B-1, etc.
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> Thanks Wilton!
>
> At 02:02 PM 8/19/2008, you wrote:
> >There'
Thanks Wilton!
At 02:02 PM 8/19/2008, you wrote:
>There's a saying amongst contemporary B-52
>aircrewmen, "When the last B-1 and/or B-2 is delivered to the bone yard, a
>B-52 will take the crew back home." Why get rid of a really good thing -
>long-range bomber, MB, wife?
Many of the same folks
Now THAT could have been embarrassing! Beautiful photos!
Wilton
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From: "Chuck Landenberger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Mercedes Discussion List"
Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 5:08 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT - B-70, B-52, B-1, etc.
> W
Wilton,
Always appreciate your hands-on experiences and the sharing of
wonderful facts on aircraft with we landbound mortals.
Check this on a B1-B landing and recovery on Diego Garcia.
http://www.zianet.com/tedmorris/dg/bombers4.html
Take care,
Chuck
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Meant to replace the B-52 as a long-range bomber, two XB-70’s were designed
and built in the late fifties and early sixties. It is of comparable size
and range to the B-52 at ~490,000 lbs. It has a large, fixed delta wing
plus a small canard on the forward fuselage. It was to cruise at Mach 3 at
