A few from Valley 14 April 09 b

[heavyhorses]

[Alan Erskine[_3_]]

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I'm surprised these are still flying - must be a bit long in the tooth.

[heavyhorses]

"Alan Erskine" > wrote in message
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> "heavyhorses" > wrote in message
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> I'm surprised these are still flying - must be a bit long in the tooth.
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Uk Serials (http://www.ukserials.com/ ) web site list it as
XZ591 Sea King HAR3 f/f 12/02/1978, So its been about as long as some of the
Hawks at Valley !

[hielan' laddie]

On Sat, 18 Apr 2009 03:49:08 -0400, heavyhorses wrote
(in article >):

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> "Alan Erskine" > wrote in message
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>> "heavyhorses" > wrote in message
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>> I'm surprised these are still flying - must be a bit long in the tooth.
>>
> Uk Serials (http://www.ukserials.com/ ) web site list it as
> XZ591 Sea King HAR3 f/f 12/02/1978, So its been about as long as some of the
> Hawks at Valley !
>
>

That's a _youngster_. There's at least one B-52 at Barksdale AFB in Louisiana
which is currently being flown by the _grandson_ of its first pilot. He calls
it the 'family bomber', as his father flew it, too...

[Bob (not my real pseudonym)]

On Sat, 18 Apr 2009 11:25:44 -0400, hielan' laddie
> wrote:

>On Sat, 18 Apr 2009 03:49:08 -0400, heavyhorses wrote
>(in article >):
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>> "Alan Erskine" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> "heavyhorses" > wrote in message
>>> ...
>>>
>>> I'm surprised these are still flying - must be a bit long in the tooth.
>>>
>> Uk Serials (http://www.ukserials.com/ ) web site list it as
>> XZ591 Sea King HAR3 f/f 12/02/1978, So its been about as long as some of the
>> Hawks at Valley !
>>
>>
>
>That's a _youngster_. There's at least one B-52 at Barksdale AFB in Louisiana
>which is currently being flown by the _grandson_ of its first pilot. He calls
>it the 'family bomber', as his father flew it, too...

Some KC-135s are even older than the B-52s they nurse.