Kids these days will never know….

[B52G8rAC]

Were either of them part of the 100th or the 8th?

My FIL was in the the Mighty 8th. Had a lifelong disdain for Ira Eaker becasue, Daylight Precision Bombing without escorts. I had the privilege of interviewing General Eaker when I was at Squadron Officers School and was very excited to share with him. His response was less than enthusiastic.

 

[B52G8rAC]

And OBTW, I was in the 2nd and 8th Air Forces. Second to None.

 

[Gatordiddy]

My FIL was in the the Mighty 8th. Had a lifelong disdain for Ira Eaker becasue, Daylight Precision Bombing without escorts. I had the privilege of interviewing General Eaker when I was at Squadron Officers School and was very excited to share with him. His response was less than enthusiastic.

What did you think of the Masters of the Air series?
They covered that…

 

[B52G8rAC]

What did you think of the Masters of the Air series?
They covered that…

I haven't seen it yet. Its on Prime, right? I need to squester some time to watch it by myself because other members of the family don't generally enjoy flying and combat shows when I am in the room. I have a hard time suspending disbelief over obviously ignorant scripts and stuff.

 

[bradgator2]

 

[AlexDaGator]

Nope. He never made it overseas, only 16 when the war started and his mom wouldnt let him enlist until he was 18. By the time he had finished training in the Fort and B-29 the war was over.

Wonder if your Dad flew one of these. They flew for a good long while after the war, originally as bombers and later as tankers.

Looks like a B-29. Called a Superfortress. But not a B-29??? I give you the B-50:

Alex.

 

[bradgator2]

 

[Altitude Gator]

Mixed that stuff with Beech Nut in high school - so you could chew it. Our baseball coach passed the Beech Nut pouch at the beginning of every game. I can't even imagine what kind of backlash that would cause now.

We have exactly ONE guy who wouldn't partake - a black guy who swore the only tobacco product he would use was Skoal Bandits - he had to clean the dugout every time one was found on the floor regardless of how much spit was down there.

 

[Altitude Gator]

My kids would NEVER make it in 1985. They wouldn't be able to figure out how to start their trucks with a screw driver when the solenoid went bad!

 

[B52G8rAC]

Wonder if your Dad flew one of these. They flew for a good long while after the war, originally as bombers and later as tankers.

Looks like a B-29. Called a Superfortress. But not a B-29??? I give you the B-50:

Alex.

Nope, he was discharged from the US Army Air Forces in 1946. I think that picute is actually a KB-50. Notice the underwing pods (that contained fuel and the AR drogues). The KB-50 was later fitted with underwing pods with jet engines. I am trying to find a comparison photo. It may be that the B-50 had extra fuel tanks under the wing.

 

[B52G8rAC]

This is a schematic of the B-50A. No underwing tanks. That doesn't prove anything since they could have been added on later iterations.

https://www.skytamer.com/Boeing_B-50A.html

 

[Nalt]

 

[Altitude Gator]

The Bud Light commercials with Gretzky regarding bubble hockey were awesome!

When in the navy in the late 80s, this pool and foosball where all the rage! We played these non-stop at the watering holes!

 

[AlexDaGator]

This is a schematic of the B-50A. No underwing tanks. That doesn't prove anything since they could have been added on later iterations.

https://www.skytamer.com/Boeing_B-50A.html

You can see from this picture both underwing fuel tanks and jet engines. Like you said, it depended on the specific configuration.

Here's a pic of one in the act of mid-air refueling:

I found out about the B-50 when I read that the first non-stop flight around the world was made by a B-50 in 1949. That was this older version without the tanks or jets (and with the defensive armament):

Alex.

 

[Detroitgator]

My kids would NEVER make it in 1985. They wouldn't be able to figure out how to start their trucks with a screw driver when the solenoid went bad!

gotta cross those screwdrivers without fusing them together!

Update: it was exactly this year around Christmas that I showed my kids how to push start a stick.... they were absolutely floored.

 

[Nalt]

gotta cross those screwdrivers without fusing them together!

Update: it was exactly this year around Christmas that I showed my kids how to push start a stick.... they were absolutely floored.

You had to SHOW your kids how to do that? My brothers and I learned by actually DOING it...

 

[Detroitgator]

You had to SHOW your kids how to do that? My brothers and I learned by actually DOING it...

You're retarded... of course they actually did it, with my instruction. I'm guessing you and your retard Bama brother learned it from "divine intervention by God," but far more likely from the aliens when they came down in their UFO to abduct you two from your trailer?

 

[AlexDaGator]

gotta cross those screwdrivers without fusing them together!

Update: it was exactly this year around Christmas that I showed my kids how to push start a stick.... they were absolutely floored.

You damYankees had the luxury of parking at the top of a hill so the "push start" was gravity powered.

Florida is flat. You better have some friends come help.

Alex.

 

[Detroitgator]

You damYankees had the luxury of parking at the top of a hill so the "push start" was gravity powered.

Florida is flat. You better have some friends come help.

Alex.

The Detroit area is flat as fuk too... scraped by glaciers and previously under water... there was no hill assists. From the revolving restaurant at the top of the RenCen 72 stories above the city, when looking inland, you can see forever.

 

[Back Alley Gator]

The Detroit area is flat as fuk too... scraped by glaciers and previously under water... there was no hill assists. From the revolving restaurant at the top of the RenCen 72 stories above the city, when looking inland, you can see forever.

Yes...but Detroit sucks. So all you have to do is line up heading north into town, and much like the St John's River, you get pulled north into the suckage.