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2008-07-21 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by OldSpook 2008-07-21 02:39|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 ...Whatever happened sounds like it happened brutally fast - the crew is actually five (pilot, co-pilot, electronic warfare, radar nav and bomb nav) so there had to be an observer aboard for some reason. The pilot, co-pilot, and electronic warfare officer eject upwards from the flight deck and the two navs eject down from their stations, and the observer has to make his way down to the nav stations and physically climb out of the airplane. God bless and comfort the crew members' families - the B-52 community is a small one these days and a loss like this will hurt badly.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2008-07-21 06:30|| 2008-07-21 06:30|| Front Page Top

#2 Sad news my heart goes out to crew and families.

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2008-07-21 08:54|| 2008-07-21 08:54|| Front Page Top

#3 Mike, it was probably an instructor pilot sitting on the jump seat behind the pilots. The gunner's ejection seat has not been removed, although I don't know whether the seat is still serviceable for ejection.

Unfortunately there are more than a few B-52's in the water off of Guam. May the good Lord comfort their families.

Posted by RWV 2008-07-21 09:23|| 2008-07-21 09:23|| Front Page Top

#4 I salute their service and sacrifice.

Posted by Besoeker 2008-07-21 11:05|| 2008-07-21 11:05|| Front Page Top

#5 I lend another voice of condolence...

... AND another Vote for the G'damn Air Force to re-open the Buff Assembly Line, the A-10 line, A-6 line and the A-14 line until the Clones & Drones take Over.

/money much better spent that some of the Hot Shot Weapons they are dreaming about today.

Posted by Red Dawg 2008-07-21 18:43|| 2008-07-21 18:43|| Front Page Top

#6 GUAM K57 AM > seems the USAF + Andersen AFB have confirmed TWO as dead, FOUR as still missing, wid one of the former now tentatively identified as Colonel George Martin after notif of next of kin. Iff this is the same B52 I saw flying over northern Guam, I wondering iff the cause was LACK OF LUBE/FUEL? [Sensors again?] AS ENGINES SOUNDED LIKE IT WAS GRINDING OR "CATCHING" - JUST DIDN'T SOUND GOOD???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-07-21 19:15|| 2008-07-21 19:15|| Front Page Top

#7 RIP. Our local radio, reading the newswire, noted a "Stealth Bomber" crashed. First time a B-52 was called stealth, I bet, and a reflection of media war-tools ignorance

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-07-21 19:43|| 2008-07-21 19:43|| Front Page Top

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