"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
02/05/2020 at 09:10 • Filed to: good morning oppo, Planelopnik
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"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
02/05/2020 at 09:10 • Filed to: good morning oppo, Planelopnik | 4
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Maybe we made a few too many airplanes.
Surplus B-26 Marauders, B-17 Flying Fortresses, and B-25 Mitchells (and what look like B-24 Liberators way in the back, and some sort of fighters) at Chino, California in 1946. Too bad most of them were cut up.
Svend
> ttyymmnn
02/05/2020 at 09:16 |
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It’s amazing to think just how many were made, how many lost, the surviving ones parked up and destroyed and now air craft restorers and historians are find ing it so incredibly hard to find pieces for certain aircraft.
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ttyymmnn
> Svend
02/05/2020 at 09:24 |
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Back then it was just all so much aluminum, which could be melted down to make newer planes or beer cans. It really is amazing how much equipment was produced. I was just writing a piece about the bombing of Dresden in February 1945. The British put up about 800 Lancasters, followed by the US who sent 527 B-17s escorted by more than 700 P-51s. And that was just for that single raid. There were many others the same night. JFC Fuller suggests that we put up those numbers simply because we had the equipment and felt we needed to use it. The numbers were overwhelming, and almost impossible to imagine today. Aside from the cacophony of the explosions, I can’t begin to imagine the sound produced by that many aircraft.
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Svend
> ttyymmnn
02/05/2020 at 09:45 |
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Ye’, those bombing raids would turn cities into fiery hellscapes.
Winds generated by the fires making it near impossible to stand.
To think of all those L an caster bombers, only two are air worthy.
Thumper and Vera. Flying over Lake Windermere down the road from me.
Just watching two is impressive the sound of the Rolls Royce Merlin engines, hearing hundreds of them, just wow.
((there is a third one being restored, Just Jane, for airworthiness. In the meantime you can buy rides in her as she taxis down the grass runway as she gets up to take off speeds))
Milky
> ttyymmnn
02/05/2020 at 10:23 |
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I don’ t think it felt like they were making too many in the years leading up to ‘46.
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ttyymmnn
> Milky
02/05/2020 at 11:22 |
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I’m sure it didn’t. And today, I was reading an article about how the USAF wants to cut the B-1 fleet from 60 bombers to 43. That just seems like a paltry number. Of course, we’re not fighting a world war. At least not yet...
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Milky
> ttyymmnn
02/05/2020 at 13:00 |
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Oh man, dont jinx it.
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ttyymmnn
> Milky
02/05/2020 at 13:32 |
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The plan to retire the B-1 (and the B-2) as the B-21 comes online, whenever that will be. That means our two main bombers will be the stealthy B-21 and the re-engined B-52. The way it’s looking now, the Buff could easily have a 100-year service life.
Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
> ttyymmnn
02/05/2020 at 15:27 |
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And here I thought this was the overflow parking from the 737 Max production line..
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ttyymmnn
> Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
02/05/2020 at 15:43 |
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“rim sho t”
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ttyymmnn
> Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
02/05/2020 at 15:48 |
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