The 'Bone yard'

I'm impressed and appreciative of your long service Jim. That really must have been strange talking about planes and equipment the new recruits never heard of.

Not the B-52 though. I'm still amazed at it's longevity. They were flying long before some of this stuff came and went and they're still upgrading them. It won't be long before it's common that crew will have grandparents who flew the same aircraft.

We have a display of aircraft in Borden Ontario that includes the Voodoo and Shooting Star. At the time I stood looking at them I never really thought about it, and here they are pictured before being shipped to us. I wonder if the aircraft pictured ever did runs on me. Now the remaining ones are on pylons.

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Originally Posted by cafdfw

I'm impressed and appreciative of your long service Jim. That really must have been strange talking about planes and equipment the new recruits never heard of.

Not the B-52 though. I'm still amazed at it's longevity. They were flying long before some of this stuff came and went and they're still upgrading them. It won't be long before it's common that crew will have grandparents who flew the same aircraft.

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I think it's time for the Commemorative Air Force to get a B-52. :madsmile:

Bob

You just never know, Bob. The CAF recently expanded to include all military aircraft and they've added quite a few from post WWII through Vietnam including a Huey and Cobra.

Thank you for the link. I am still looking around over there. The first plane I flew on was a Constellation. They were such elegant aircraft.

Glad to see a few Skyraiders there as well.

AZB

I see some handsome E model B-47s there, the first acft I worked on as an ECM tech starting in the summer of 64. Elegant acft, fast for their time and even today if they were still airborn. Co- pilot was copilot, gunner and ECM operator working from a swiveling ejection seat so that he could face forward, left or aft depending on his needs. A "teat-like radome" on the nose and on the tail carried the APS-54 airborne gun-laying radar receiver unit and had early diodes that had to be changed out too frequently; the fiberglas radomes had dozens of short phillips-head screws around the circumference for attachment of the radome and in 0 degree weather, up on a B-5 stand, fumbling with wool inserts in stiff leather gloves the job sometimes amounted to trying to insert a few dozen screws and sweeping up the "misses" from the ramp before engine-start. The good Sgt O'Rourke did his best to manage me but...