Talk:B-47 Stratojet
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Mother of all edit conflicts! This is hopeless. You do it then. Tannin
- Sorry! (I know the feeling.) I do appreciate you bashing at it, but I was feeling responsible, having sucked in the giant mass... Should have looked closer at the time of your edit, better to wait a couple hours after someone else's last edit. Stan 18:07 Mar 9, 2003 (UTC)
- No problem Stan. Please excuse my mometary grumpiness. I'll leave this one to you. You should have seen the look on my face when I looked at your edit with maybe 30 small changes in it sprinkled here, there and everywhere, and then looked at my edit with maybe 30 small changes in it, sprinkled here, there and everywhere. I'd spent about 45 minutes doing that edit. I reckon I could have gone through it line by line and resolved all the conflicts in ... oh ... about three hours!
- Instead I went to bed and finished the new history of Second Alamein I'd been reading - which was a much better idea! Tannin
Removed 'Graph
I removed this from section == Comments, Sources, & Revision History ==; perhaps it is useful as source material:
- * Although I grew up under the approach path to a Strategic Air Command base, I have no recollection of ever seeing a B-47 in flight. I do have an oddly vivid boyhood memory of an episode of the "Steve Canyon" TV show, which ran in 1960 or so, in which a B-47 engaged in an attack exercise against the USSR got into trouble: the canopy cracked, killing the crew. Canyon was scrambled to intercept the bomber as it flew towards Soviet airspace. As it neared the frontier, he was ordered to shoot it down and did so reluctantly. Although I must've been 6 or 7 at the time, I still can remember the image of the pilot and copilot of the bomber, lying dead in their seats, their faces iced over with frost, while the aircraft continued automatically on course.
--Jerzy 00:40, 2004 Feb 18 (UTC)
Immelmann Turn with a B-47
People, last night I saw a documentary (Discovery) where B-47 pilots were doing practice runs of dropping the A bomb performed an Immelmann (named after Max Immelmann). They did this, according to the program, by dropping the aircraft to 20,000 ft, then pull sharply up, release the bomb and away they went into the opposite direction. This, however, was soon stopped at it was found that the g forces were stressing the airframe too much. Can we get this into the article?
Demerzel 11:50 2004/03/03 (UTC)