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Strategies & Market Trends : Systems, Strategies and Resources for Trading Futures
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To: Joan Osland Graffius who wrote (44531)3/23/2002 3:50:43 PM
From: Lee Lichterman III  Read Replies (1) of 44573
 
There are 3-4 wings of B-52s and a unit of A-10s. It is the main B-52 wing of the Air Force now.

I was in the 43 Bomb Wing also but it was in Guam in the 80s. We had B-52s there. I never got to see a B-58 fly unfortunatly. I worked G model B-52s most of my career at Loring, Maine and Anderson, Guam and then played around on the H model at Ellsworth South Dakota for almost a year before going into the B-1B piece of crud also at Ellsworth. I finally came out here to Idaho with the B-1B but I will be happy to get back on a "real Bomber" again. -ggg-

They have retired all but the H model B-52s now. No more Tall tails, DBNS planes etc. I have to admit, they are much easier to fix now though than when I first came in. There is something to be said for digital computers over the old analog computers we used to have with synchros and gears. Oops, showing my age. The turbo fan engines are more reliable but I do miss seeing the billowing black smoke from our old "steam engines" on the D and G models as they burned water to get more thrust. Radar scopes have been replaced with Monitors and one black box does what 100 individual components did back then and the young kids still can't figure out what is wrong half the time. -ggg- If they only knew how easy they have it now.

Times change I guess. Ce La Vie!

Good Luck,

Lee
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