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• errolwi commented on Crib Sheet: Iron Sunrise
  Earlier today I was listening to an interview with an officer in the USAF Reserve unit that does B52 crew training. He mentioned (besides the standing joke instructions to look after the aircraft so that they are still running well for your kids) that unexpected things are breaking. The ones in use have been around since 1962, and there are toggle switches that are flipped half a dozen times in each flight......
• paws4thot commented on Crib Sheet: Iron Sunrise
  Are you suggesting that any of Jay's cited actions were some sort of Good Thing?...
• David L commented on Crib Sheet: Iron Sunrise
  These things are almost as old as me. And I certainly feel a bit more "creaky" than I used to. And odd things do seem to be breaking that I never thought about before. :)...
• von.hitchofen commented on Crib Sheet: Iron Sunrise
  Sixty years ago, the only 'planes with swept wings in the flypast were some RCAF Sabres. ...and the 7 Swifts, the Valiant, and the Victor and the Hunter, plus the Vulcan and Javelin deltas The Canberra stayed in RAF service until 2006.The technology doesn't always change as quickly as we might think the PR-9 phased out in '06 was very different to the EE Canberra B.2s in the 1953 flypast, different wings, more powerful engine, revised fuselage, different role the Tornado may be thirty years old, but the ordnance it drops and the avionics it uses to drop them are...
• Antonia T Tiger commented on Crib Sheet: Iron Sunrise
  I checked. The flypast over Buckingham Palace on the 2nd June 1953, Coronation Day, was made up of 144 Meteors and 24 Sabres. Have you confused it with the Coronation Review of the RAF? The first production Valiant flew in December 1953. There were prototypes in existence of all three V-bombers, but the Vulcan prototype was being modified. The Supermarine Swift entered service in February 1954: again, there was only a prototype flying in 1953. The way that prototypes in general fell out of the sky in those days, I hardly think you would see them over the middle of...