An ex-Air Force officer I worked with told an anecdote about being one of the crew of a B-52 being dogged by fighters (F-15s, I
think) -- nothing hostile, just teasing the BUFF with a "we could fly rings around you" attitude. According to my friend,
the pilot got fed up and tipped the B-52 on its side. Goodbye, lift, and the BUFF just dropped like a stone until he rolled it back to level. Meanwhile, the
fighter jocks are audibly panicking. I have some doubts about this, because I envision the B-52 coming apart under the strain coming
back on those wings, but the guy telling me the story didn't claim he did it, just that he witnessed it from inside the plane, so
it might be more than a tall story. At any rate, it approached the insanity of some of the maneuvers in that sim video.
And yeah, I was half expecting the blimp to put on an impossible surge of speed and catch up to the jets.
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Big Brother is watching you. And damn, you are so bloody BORING.
think) -- nothing hostile, just teasing the BUFF with a "we could fly rings around you" attitude. According to my friend,
the pilot got fed up and tipped the B-52 on its side. Goodbye, lift, and the BUFF just dropped like a stone until he rolled it back to level. Meanwhile, the
fighter jocks are audibly panicking. I have some doubts about this, because I envision the B-52 coming apart under the strain coming
back on those wings, but the guy telling me the story didn't claim he did it, just that he witnessed it from inside the plane, so
it might be more than a tall story. At any rate, it approached the insanity of some of the maneuvers in that sim video.
And yeah, I was half expecting the blimp to put on an impossible surge of speed and catch up to the jets.
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Big Brother is watching you. And damn, you are so bloody BORING.