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  • vmaxer
    vmaxer Posts: 5,117
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,822
    ^^^ Frosty the Aurochs?
  • OleBoot
    OleBoot Posts: 2,745
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    ^^^ Frosty the Aurochs?

    So somebody invented the camera in the 17th century and didn't let on?
  • aprazer402
    aprazer402 Posts: 3,148
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    No affil. :/

    From FB.
  • aprazer402
    aprazer402 Posts: 3,148
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    Better than being on a smartphone all day!

  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,822
    edited December 2023
    OleBoot wrote: »
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    ^^^ Frosty the Aurochs?

    So somebody invented the camera in the 17th century and didn't let on?

    Lost to the Little Ice Age, perhaps.

    Actually, based on the horns, more like Frosty the Bison.
  • Geoff4rfc
    Geoff4rfc Posts: 2,422
    She certainly likes her nicknacks.

    It's a nicknack paddy whack, leave the frog alone
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  • Geoff4rfc
    Geoff4rfc Posts: 2,422
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    ^^^ Frosty the Aurochs?

    NO......Ted Nugents great white buffalo
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  • Geoff4rfc
    Geoff4rfc Posts: 2,422
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    05....hauling a s s down Portland's straight doing 175mph in the wet.....
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  • msg
    msg Posts: 10,067
    ^^^ Maniacal!
    I disabled signatures.
  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,822
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    Good ol' BUFF.
  • Most B52 planes are older than the crew that flies them.
  • JayCee
    JayCee Posts: 1,500
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    Good ol' BUFF.

    Wildest data request I received in the 90's...stationed at Castle AFB and the BUFF's were slowly being sent to the big graveyard in the sky (AMARC-fondly known as the "boneyard") as their scheduled "retirement" from the inventory played out. A certain Iraqi leader was saber rattling and there was concern he had WMD's.

    Turned out the last of the BUFF's w/other-than-conventional launch systems had made their way to the boneyard a few month's prior. I get this call..."Need you look at the table of allowances and give us the replacement cost for a B-52!!!!" Pre internet or on-line lookup capabilites I fired up the old microfiche reader, inserted the appropriate table and found the cost of a Buff.

    Turned out once an aircraft is transferred to AMARC it's not as easy as saying, "We'd like that back, please." Different pots of money and it'd have to be "purchased" for return to active duty.

    Rumor was heads were going to roll w/respect to whomever made the decision to retire those special mission jets before other's w/conventional capabilities. Fortunately, the "capabilities" were not needed.

    Anywho, the decision to retire the BUFF fleet was reversed and, for a time, much of the B-1 budget was diverted to B-52 modernization. Still remember most of the tail numbers I analyzed were from the 1957-1959 production runs. I'd be at maintenance analysis conferences and the talk was of 100 year old 52's as a reality. The Starship pic you posted above, @mhardy6647, is some funny chit. Made my day!
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  • Most B52 planes are older than the crew that flies them.

    In the mid 1970's, I knew a man who was a former B-52 pilot. He was head of a insurance services company in Atlanta where the company that I worked had a consulting contract. He was also an opera singer. I'm pretty sure he is deceased now.

    The female CEO of my company and I were invited to fly with him one afternoon in his personal plane over north Georgia to experience stunts. Inside rolls, outside rolls, and then some more.

    I learned that day what people might do to secure business opportunities.


    "Sometimes you have to look to the past to understand where you are going in the future"

    Anger is just anger. It isn’t good. It isn’t bad. It just is. What you do with it is what matters.
    You can use it to build or to destroy. You just have to make the choice.
    Jim Butcher




    Harry / Marietta GA
  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,822
    edited December 2023
    Most B52 planes are older than the crew that flies them.

    They're planning to keep them going for a full century after the first ones entered service -- which is nigh-on unimaginable. :)

    EDIT: Just saw @JayCee's post -- very cool that you were a piece of that story. I am guessing cranking out a coupla new B-52s from scratch would be a bit pricey.
    James Earl Jones is getting too old to be in the crew, though. :(

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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,822
    neither Vegas nor Dallas ;) -- what it was like at our house this morning.

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    Wet snow and temps near freezing, so it looked like the freaking Alps or something for a while today. :)
  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,822
    ^^^ some of those are hysterical.
  • bcwsrt
    bcwsrt Posts: 1,905
    OleBoot wrote: »
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  • PSOVLSK
    PSOVLSK Posts: 5,204
    bcwsrt wrote: »
    OleBoot wrote: »
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    That stuff is hard to come by. Finally found a bottle about a month ago…last one on the shelf.
    Things work out best for those who make the best of the way things work out.-John Wooden
  • daddyjt
    daddyjt Posts: 2,527
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    "Conservative Libertarians love the country, progressive leftists love the government." - Andrew Wilkow


    “Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.”
    ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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    "Sometimes you have to look to the past to understand where you are going in the future"

    Anger is just anger. It isn’t good. It isn’t bad. It just is. What you do with it is what matters.
    You can use it to build or to destroy. You just have to make the choice.
    Jim Butcher




    Harry / Marietta GA
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    The Sky-High Price Tag of the F-35’s High-Tech Helmet: Cost $400,000


    "Sometimes you have to look to the past to understand where you are going in the future"

    Anger is just anger. It isn’t good. It isn’t bad. It just is. What you do with it is what matters.
    You can use it to build or to destroy. You just have to make the choice.
    Jim Butcher




    Harry / Marietta GA
  • halo71
    halo71 Posts: 4,603
    edited December 2023
    Viking64 wrote: »
    1957 Thunderbird

    Those opera windows always bring back a good memory. :)

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    And a young Suzanne Somers driving! From American Graffiti movie i think?!?
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  • halo71
    halo71 Posts: 4,603
    OleBoot wrote: »
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    I thought this was a pic of an underwater explosion at sea when I first saw it! lol
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