Interior bomb bay of D model B-52 carried 84 five hundred pound conventional
(iron) bombs (sometimes a mix of 500 and 750 pounders); pylon on each wing
carried 12; total 108.
H models still in service have same bomb bay but may not be using the
concentrated "clips/racks" (so-called Big Belly mod.) used on the D models
in Vietnam.
Wilton
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mountain Man" <maontin....@gmail.com>
To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 08, 2013 8:50 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] buymbparts is dead drunk and rattling
Wilton wrote:
I knew all of the intimate details of the nuclear weapons and/or
conventional weapons (as appropriate) in our huge bomb bay and how to use
them...
25 years ago I remember taking the kids to Peterson AFB in Colorado
Springs at one of their open house days. We were allowed to walk
right up under a B-52, if I recall correctly. I recall being amazed
at how small the bomb carrying compartment in the middle of the
airplane seemed. I had in mind seeing war footage that showed bombs
dropping from B-52 and that compartment did not seem capable of
carrying that many bombs. I guess you also carried bombs under the
wings? I just recall being amazed that we would fly that huge
airplane for hours, refuel, spend a few minutes dropping bombs at Nam,
and then fly hours back to be re-armed. I was no peacenik, but... it
seemed like a lot of effort to spend hours traveling to spend minutes
dropping bombs. That was my impression. These days? - I tire of war
efforts, again, not being much a peacenik, just tired of the seeming
futility of the jazz that goes in to seeming peace keeping efforts.
So... call me peacenik... whatever.
mao
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