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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 om... Ken Duffey wrote in message ... 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suppose that is one of the problems with a quarterly publication - by the time it hits the shops, the news stuff is way out of date.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 !! ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ++++++++++++++++ Ken Duffey - Flanker Freak & Russian Aviation Enthusiast Flankers Website - http://www.flankers.co.uk/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ++++++++++++++++ Mine hasn't come yet. B-52J? "J"?? |
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