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  • Geoff4rfc
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    SeleniumFalcon wrote: »
    She certainly likes her nicknacks.

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

    NO......Ted Nugents great white buffalo
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  • Geoff4rfc
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    05....hauling a s s down Portland's straight doing 175mph in the wet.....
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  • msg
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    ^^^ Maniacal!
    I disabled signatures.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 35,562
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    Good ol' BUFF.
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  • SeleniumFalcon
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    Most B52 planes are older than the crew that flies them.
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  • JayCee
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    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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  • BlueBirdMusic
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    SeleniumFalcon wrote: »
    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"
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  • mhardy6647
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    edited December 2023
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    SeleniumFalcon wrote: »
    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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  • SeleniumFalcon
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    “Survival kit contents check. In them you'll find: one forty-five caliber automatic; two boxes of ammunition; four days' concentrated emergency rations; one drug issue containing antibiotics, morphine, vitamin pills, pep pills, sleeping pills, tranquilizer pills; one miniature combination Russian phrase book and Bible; one hundred dollars in rubles; one hundred dollars in gold; nine packs of chewing gum; one issue of prophylactics; three lipsticks; three pair of nylon stockings. Shoot, a fella' could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff.”
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  • mhardy6647
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    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. :)
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  • aprazer402
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  • mhardy6647
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    ^^^ some of those are hysterical.
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  • PSOVLSK
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    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
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    “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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  • BlueBirdMusic
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    "Sometimes you have to look to the past to understand where you are going in the future"
    Harry / Marietta GA
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  • BlueBirdMusic
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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"
    Harry / Marietta GA
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  • halo71
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    edited December 2023
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    Viking64 wrote: »
    BlueBirdMusic 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?!?
    --Gary--
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  • halo71
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    OleBoot wrote: »
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    I thought this was a pic of an underwater explosion at sea when I first saw it! lol
    --Gary--
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  • aprazer402
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    Interesting round wood stove. Note the door handle. My photo.


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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 35,562
    edited December 2023
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    F1nut wrote: »
    That could have been a beautiful truck.

    Let's try this one -- a bit more faithfully restored. :)
    53375534352_cb487945a3_b.jpg59 Chevrolet Apache by sHuTtEr nUt, on Flickr
    (same photographer, BTW)

    The abomitation from the post referred to above (a '56, at least somewhere down inside) for comparison:
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  • mhardy6647
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    Toolfan66 wrote: »
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    the funny thing, to me -- it looks like that individual's poked their head up through a copy of the Tommy album jacket. :|


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  • SCompRacer
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    edited December 2023
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    mhardy6647 wrote: »

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    We tried that fencing to keep Jasper (RIP) out of the xmas tree, but it didn't always work. :) He'd look for an opening and jump over it. (The dog had his toys out in that pic).

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  • tonyb
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  • Viking64
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    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    Toolfan66 wrote: »
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    the funny thing, to me -- it looks like that individual's poked their head up through a copy of the Tommy album jacket. :|


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    tonyb wrote: »
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    Machete don't read normal Christmas stories.
    I disabled signatures.
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