Most of the cockpit photos were spot on, except one really big item - there
was no box displaying receipt of messages, go codes, etc. At that time,
such was still in somebody's imagination. We received all such messages via
voice and copied 'em onto a plastic-covered form with grease pencil. Such
electronic box was just getting into the fleet when I retired in late '81.
I never used it.
Wilt
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Penoff" <d...@penoff.com>
To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 08, 2013 6:55 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] buymbparts is dead drunk and rattling
Yes, but were you aware that their depiction of the cockpit and equipment
was so spot-on that the USAF was convinced someone had leaked TS material
to them?
"In the early 60s, the B-52 was cutting-edge technology. Access to it was
a matter of national security. The Pentagon refused to lend any support to
the film after they read the script. Set designers reconstructed the B-52
bomber's cockpit from a single photograph that appeared in a British
flying magazine. When some American Air Force personnel were invited to
view the movie's B52 cockpit, they said it was a perfect copy.Stanley
Kubrick feared that Ken Adam's production design team had used illegal
methods and could be investigated by the FBI."
Dan
On Sep 8, 2013, at 6:49 PM, WILTON wrote:
Yep, Slim (T. J.) did mention the special items, didn't he?
No such inventory would ever have occurred in flight on a real such
mission. Example of writer trying to insert another joke.
BTW, y'all do realize, don't you that most (almost ALL) of the stuff in
that movie was BS from somebody's imagination. For example, pilot never
read any checklist for bombing or its prep and sure as Hell wouldn't have
gone into the bomb bay for ANYTHING - if anybody did, it would have been
the navigator or radar-navigator/bombardier. All of the in flight
dialog was very stilted, imaginary BS - not like the real world at all.
Wilton
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