The 370z Useless Thread II

[Isamu]

Originally Posted by dixon cider

If you were closer, I still have my instructors license.

I should be taking my ground school test sometime this year

[Lemers]

Im told Chinooks are faster

[Isamu]

chinooks are cool..


and Lems, C-130s are so awesome!

[Lemers]

Only the AC-130s. I need to find out which style he flies. But he just deployed for a few months.

[Isamu]

Originally Posted by Lemers

Only the AC-130s. I need to find out which style he flies. But he just deployed for a few months.

I like most 130's only because it's my airframe... well, was.. now it's the massive destruction bringing death machine known as the BUFF

[Lemers]

B-52s lost some coolness when the took the tail gunners out.

[Isamu]

Originally Posted by Lemers

B-52s lost some coolness when the took the tail gunners out.

yea, but that was along time ago.. while we were in HS still, or earlier

[Lemers]

I'm not sure if they had tail during Vietnam. Missiles kinda made them obsolete.

[Isamu]

Originally Posted by Lemers

I'm not sure if they had tail during Vietnam. Missiles kinda made them obsolete.

they had them in Vietnam... they recorded 4 confirmed mig kills via the tail gun... lol

[dixon cider]

Originally Posted by Isamu

I should be taking my ground school test sometime this year

Sweet. Let me know when.

[Lemers]

Ok cool mr Minot

[Isamu]

Originally Posted by Lemers

Ok cool mr Minot

was two kills.. my bad..

Air-to-air victoriesDuring the Vietnam War, B-52D tail gunners were credited with shooting down two MiG-21 "Fishbeds". On 18 December 1972, tail gunner SSgt Samuel O. Turner's B-52 had just completed a bomb run for Operation Linebacker II and was turning away when a North Vietnamese Air Force MiG-21 approached. The MiG and the B-52 locked onto one another. When the fighter drew within range, Turner fired his quad (four guns on one mounting) .50 caliber machine guns. The MiG exploded aft of the bomber, a victory confirmed by MSG Lewis E. Le Blance, the tail gunner in a nearby Stratofortress. Turner received a Silver Star for his actions. His B-52, tail number 55-0676, is preserved on display with air-to-air kill markings at Fairchild AFB in Spokane, Washington.
On 24 December 1972, during the same bombing campaign, the B-52 Diamond Lil was headed to bomb the Thái Nguyên railroad yards when tail gunner A1C Albert E. Moore spotted a fast-approaching MiG-21. Moore opened fire with his quad fifties at 4,000 yards (3,700 m), and kept shooting until the fighter disappeared from his scope. TSG Clarence W. Chute, a tail gunner aboard another Stratofortress, watched the MiG catch fire and fall away. The Diamond Lil is preserved on display at the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado. Moore was the last recorded bomber gunner to shoot down an enemy aircraft with machine guns in aerial combat. These victories make the B-52 the largest aircraft to be credited with air-to-air kills

[KaienZ34]

Is one of them blue? Cause I'd go with the blue one.

Someone call me?

[KaienZ34]

Pm me your number.