I was on a Looking Glass aircraft once and got a tour of the SAC underground command center. They ran through simulations on both. Exciting. Then I got to crawl around a NEACP 747. That was very cool. Next day we crawled around the VLF transmitter out in the middle of BF, NB.
--R (sent from my miniPad) On Sep 8, 2013, at 7:16 PM, "WILTON" <wilt...@nc.rr.com> wrote: 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 > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
