We almost nuked North Carolina

BlueFox
BlueFox Posts: 15,251
edited June 2014 in The Clubhouse
This is pretty interesting. Makes you wonder when something will happen, and luck will not be on our side.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/12/us/north-carolina-nuclear-bomb-drop/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
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  • exalted512
    exalted512 Posts: 10,735
    edited June 2014
    I found this amusing...from one of the comment:
    The plane suffered "a failure of the right wing."

    It seems we have some historical precedent for our present-day right wing failures.
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 50,755
    edited June 2014
    Another failure of the education system, can't tell left from right.
    Political Correctness'.........defined

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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,464
    edited June 2014
    exalted512 wrote: »
    I found this amusing...from one of the comment:
    The plane suffered "a failure of the right wing."

    It seems we have some historical precedent for our present-day right wing failures.


    Just wow....
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  • agfrost
    agfrost Posts: 2,430
    edited June 2014
    Double post fail. I blame my education. Or perhaps politics.
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  • agfrost
    agfrost Posts: 2,430
    edited June 2014
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    Jay
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  • AsSiMiLaTeD
    AsSiMiLaTeD Posts: 11,728
    edited June 2014
    F1nut wrote: »
    Another failure of the education system, can't tell left from right.
    This was back when we supposedly had a good education system...
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  • exalted512
    exalted512 Posts: 10,735
    edited June 2014
    nooshinjohn wrote: »
    Just wow....

    I'm about as conservative as they come...but it's still funny.
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  • sucks2beme
    sucks2beme Posts: 5,606
    edited June 2014
    There were a lot of almost kabooms back in the day. There's still a nuke
    on the ocean outside of Savannah
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  • George Grand
    George Grand Posts: 12,258
    edited June 2014
    We almost nuked Spain, which is almost as bad as nuking yourself. I'll bet THEY would've been pissed. B-47's almost nuked Georgia I believe.

    That was in the good old days when 1/3 of the SAC manned bomber force was constantly in the air. With real nukes. 1/3 on airborne alert, 1/3 on ground alert, and 1/3 for local training missions or in maintenance.
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  • sucks2beme
    sucks2beme Posts: 5,606
    edited June 2014
    Didn't they have one bust up and spew it's guts in Greenland as well?
    A whole lot of people were sent in to clean it up, and a lot of those
    guys died young.
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  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 7,658
    edited June 2014
    Hello,
    This happened near where I grew up, friends of mine recovered assorted parts, pieces of wing and stuff.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_Savage_Mountain_B-52_crash

    Ken
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,464
    edited June 2014
    exalted512 wrote: »
    I'm about as conservative as they come...but it's still funny.
    -Cody

    I agree... but if I had made that joke, I would have been banned for life for bringing politics into the discussion.:lol:
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  • jflail2
    jflail2 Posts: 2,868
    edited June 2014
    Nice and scary. Dad was stationed in Goldsboro in the late 60's/ early 70's, and then we lived there when he was stationed in Korea in the 80's. Nice to know I lived in a place that could have in theory not have been on the map at that point.......
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  • mrbigbluelight
    mrbigbluelight Posts: 9,859
    edited June 2014
    In the video with the blonde newsreader, I was edumacated to learn the bombs were each capable of emitting 3.8 megatons of gas.

    Yeah, that's right ....... GAS

    Guess it must have been a hydrogen bomb. 3.8 megatons of hydrogen gas is a lot of gas. : ' )
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  • George Grand
    George Grand Posts: 12,258
    edited June 2014
    Kenneth Swauger wrote: »
    Hello,
    This happened near where I grew up, friends of mine recovered assorted parts, pieces of wing and stuff.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_Savage_Mountain_B-52_crash

    Ken

    I'll bet if that gunner in the **** end was asleep, he woke up when that vert. stabilizer departed with a bang and flew about 5 feet over his head. I wonder if he even waited to be told to punch out.

    A "D" model gunner punched out once. He lost communications with the rest of the crew, and didn't realize it until they started the descent into the low-level part of the mission. So, he doesn't know if they're descending for that, or if everybody up front is incapacitated due to oxygen deprivation or something. So he left. The "D" was the only model bomber with the tail gunner stationed in the tail, and didn't have access to the rest of the airplane during flight. The "G" and "H" model gunners sat up front with everybody else.
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  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 7,658
    edited June 2014
    It was a shame about the one crewman who was so close to being found, but the winters in that area are really severe. There's a commemorative plaque on Route 40 near the Castleman River thanking the people in the area for searching for survivors. The Air Force removed the two bombs on flatbed trucks and told everyone that they couldn't have detonated.
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  • sucks2beme
    sucks2beme Posts: 5,606
    edited June 2014
    DSkip wrote: »
    on or in? :)

    In, unless your finger was too close to the "o" key.
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  • Dawgfish
    Dawgfish Posts: 2,554
    edited June 2014
    Wow! Just spoke to my dad about this. Dad was stationed at Seymour Johnson AFB in Goldsboro when this happened. My mom and oldest sister were living in Goldsboro also. Dad said he remembered the incident. He said that they told him that the firing pins on both bombs were not in place and didn't know that the second bomb could have went off. Needless to say, I'm really glad neither one went off.
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  • George Grand
    George Grand Posts: 12,258
    edited June 2014
    Kenneth Swauger wrote: »
    It was a shame about the one crewman who was so close to being found, but the winters in that area are really severe. There's a commemorative plaque on Route 40 near the Castleman River thanking the people in the area for searching for survivors. The Air Force removed the two bombs on flatbed trucks and told everyone that they couldn't have detonated.

    That is a shame. I didn't realize not everybody made it, only the pilots.
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  • JimKellyfan
    JimKellyfan Posts: 696
    edited June 2014
    WTF, over?
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  • cincycat13
    cincycat13 Posts: 887
    edited June 2014
    George Grand wrote: »
    We almost nuked Spain, which is almost as bad as nuking yourself. I'll bet THEY would've been pissed. B-47's almost nuked Georgia I believe.

    That was in the good old days when 1/3 of the SAC manned bomber force was constantly in the air. With real nukes. 1/3 on airborne alert, 1/3 on ground alert, and 1/3 for local training missions or in maintenance.

    4 thirds? 1/3 + 1/3 + 1/3 + 1/3 ... no wonder we are over budget.:)
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  • soundfreak1
    soundfreak1 Posts: 3,414
    edited June 2014
    exalted512 wrote: »
    I'm about as conservative as they come...but it's still funny.
    -Cody

    Im a little right of Allila the Hun but I chuckled as well.then figured it was a case of not knowing your right from your left!
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