Bet my SD could run all year on the fuel expended in that 10 minute video...

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Probably from single B-52 take off.

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I had a similar thought with different math. I bet my car would run all year on the amount it took for only one of those planes to taxi out and just get far enough to clear the ground.

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I knew kids who went to school in Lake Worth. The school building at that time was right under the flight path to Carswell AFB.

The aircraft would come right over the top of the building. You could read what was written on the sides.

A new elementary school was built about 20 years ago, but all they did was move it to just out of the way. A new high school was built, but it was built about two miles away.

To see this set-up just Google Fort Worth and look at the air base on the south side of Lake Worth. Then go due north of the runway and look for the school building.

I am sure it is still very loud to the kids there, but at least they don't have to worry about one of those things dropping in on them like they once did.

Yeppers, I used to fill up at a gas station there at the Navajo Trail exit. Sometime B-52's on final would come almost right over the station. They are almost as loud landing as they are taking off.

There hasn't been any B-52 action for years. Just an occasional new F-16 delivery or some FA-18's playing around. C-130's shooting landings, etc.

Carswell always struck me as not really a good place for B-52's as it is not really very big, and is sort of down in a hole, not to mention being in the middle of town.

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2008 ML320 CDI Highway Cruiser
2006 Toyota Prius, Saving the Planet @ 48 mpg
2000 F-150, Destroying the Planet @ 20 mpg



TRUMP .......... WHITEHOUSE
HILLARY .........JAILHOUSE
BERNIE .......... NUTHOUSE
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They must have pencil type rather than loop type glow plugs

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When I was a kid, Bergstrom was a SAC base and a bunch of my pals dads were B-52 crew. Dads being away on alert or TDY was part of life as was the world living at the brink of Armageddon. Thankfully, we never had to use the "big stick."

"We were crewdogs." is an excellent series of books written by several generations of BUFF crew members about living with the B-52. I have them on Kindle but they may also be in hard copy.

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How many B-52's could you fly on 15 minutes worth of a carrier battle group's energy expenditure? How many Priuses?

Open book test.

It is interesting to me that MAD worked as a defense policy at a period of time in human history when belief in an afterlife could confidently be removed from the anticipated thought processes of all groups involved in a conflict. Not really possible anymore in our world.

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