"user314" (user314)
07/16/2020 at 11:00 • Filed to: flightline, Planelopnik, planelopnik history, USAF, b-52, BUFF
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"user314" (user314)
07/16/2020 at 11:00 • Filed to: flightline, Planelopnik, planelopnik history, USAF, b-52, BUFF | 4
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BUFFs and Condors and Bears, Oh My!
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Barely six months from the official !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! and with it, the end of the !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , aircraft from the !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! visited Barksdale and were photographed along with their American counterparts as part of an exchange program proposed by then Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! .
In addition to the two !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! ( !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! “Bear”) bombers, analogs of the !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! (commonly called BUFFs: Big Ugly Fat Fuckers), the Russians also brought an An-124 !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! (NATO reporting name “Condor”) . Also pictured is a USAF !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! .
This visit followed an earlier one by two B-52s and a KC-10 to !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , near Ryazan, Russia in March of 1992
Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
> user314
07/16/2020 at 11:10 |
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That buff looks a pristine specimen.
ttyymmnn
> user314
07/16/2020 at 11:12 |
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Back in 1989, in the months before the Berlin Wall came down, three Soviet navy ships paid a call on Norfolk Naval Base: the Slava Class Guided Missile Cruiser MARSHAL USTINOV (CG 088), the Guided Missile Destroyer OTLICHNYY (DDG 434), and the Replenishment Oiler GENRIKH GASANOV. The ships brought along performers, dancers, musicians and to make it a cultural exchange. I was playing in a professional concert band at the time, and our conductor arranged to have one of the Russian conductors lead our band. He conducted the Soviet national anthem, and then a rousing performance of the Russian Sailor’s Dance. Definitely one of the high points in my musical life.
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ttyymmnn
> Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
07/16/2020 at 11:40 |
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Pretty good for a 31-year-old aircraft. Manufactured in 1961, now preserved on Celebrity Row at Davis Monthan.
https://www.jetphotos.com/registration/61-0023
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user314
> ttyymmnn
07/16/2020 at 12:13 |
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Awesome! Always neat to see Oppos with direct connections to events like that.