According to the IAPR B-52J was a Boeing proposed re-engining with RR
turbofans to increase range save gas you know all that stuff. 10 years ago
it may have been financially viable. Too short a life left in the planes to
recoup the investment. Never went passed the drawing board.


"Frank" wrote in message
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Ken Duffey wrote in message
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The postman just delivered IAPR Vol 9 - so I thought I'd share the
contents with and go into smug mode 'cos I got mine and you aint !!

Contents list....

Air Power Intelligence
News Report - Operation Iraqi Freedom (yawn!)
Debrief
Aerostar's MiG-21 Upgrades
Swiss AF Wartime Bases
NATO Peacekeepers over Afghanistan
Focus Aircraft - Dassault Mirage 2000 (yawn!)
Photo Report - Botswana Defence Force
Air Power Analysis - Former Yugosvalia Part 2 Serbia & Montenegro,
Slovenia
Special Feature - PfP Helos
Variant File - B-52 Stratofortress Part 2 (B-52D to B-52J)
Combat Colours - Thunder over Italy (colourful Italian jets)
Warplane Classis - Tupolev Tu-16 'Badger'
Combat Colours - Before Barbarossa (colour pics of Luftwaffe)
Type Analysis - Westland Wyvern.

Now I usually look forward to the arrival of a new volume of IAPR - but
this one is very disappointing.

Operation Iraqi Freedom has already been covered in the monthly mags
(AFM, Air International etc) - and I don't think this piece adds
anything new.

I suppose that is one of the problems with a quarterly publication - by
the time it hits the shops, the news stuff is way out of date.

I can just about live with that - but IAPR are pulling my plonker with
the Tu-16 article !!!

I glanced through it - and thought "this looks familar - they have
re-worked their previous stuff" - but no, they haven't even bothered to
reformat it or add a couple of new pics - it is a straight lift from
their already published hardback 'Tupolev Bombers' - which itself was a
regurgitation of articles from previous IAPR and WAPJ's.

I now have the Badger article THREE times !!

Come on Airtime, if you want my custom in future, stop re-publishing the
same stuff !!

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Ken Duffey - Flanker Freak & Russian Aviation Enthusiast
Flankers Website - http://www.flankers.co.uk/
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Mine hasn't come yet. B-52J? "J"??