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To: LindyBill who wrote (258752)7/22/2008 12:51:54 AM
From: ManyMoose  Read Replies (1) of 794149
 
Buff Down

Buffs are older than the guys who fly them now. My brother-in-law flew one for fifteen years, and he's been retired for ten. I think his planes were older than he was too.

Talk about your $1000 toilet seats, have you ever been in one of those things? It would be like spending a 20 hour mission in a Volkswagen bus. The ejection ports are no bigger than a car window, and if you don't fold in your arms and legs you lose them. The instructor pilot seat where my BIL sat (he was an instructor pilot) was nothing but a fold-down bench. He said it took him a week or two to get over a long mission.

Those babies are big, but there's almost no people room in them. The interior space is occupied by electronics and weapons.

The Military Channel rates the Buff as #1 in their bomber top ten show. It rates high in innovation, effectiveness, payload, cost, and longevity.
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