B-52s in the movies

The bomb in the face trick is hardly new. The Brits were doing it low level
with Vulcans and Buccaneers in 1977 at Red Flag. They would key the mike
and call "knickers". The first days debrief was "Verrrrry Interesting".

Later US squadrons adopted it with high drags. A well placed MK-82 snake
eye at low level would ruin a good tail chase.
--
Les Matheson
F-4C(WW)/D/E/G(WW), AC-130A, MC-130E WSO/EWO (ret)


"Matt Wiser" wrote in message
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Strange; I met a crew from that squadron at the Castle AFB air show in
'91,
and they liked the movie. Didn't Powers Booth and Rebecca DeMornay go up
there for pre-filming research? The crew said that they had, and they were
very serious, and didn't complain when questions couldn't be answered.
When
asked, they also said that they would never have thought of dealing with
MiGs in the way it was done in the movie.
Still, a megaton to kill a pair of MiGs ain't overkill, it's still only
500
Kt per Foxbat.


Rembember, it's entertainment, not a Civil War-style documentary.






"Bill & Susan Maddux" wrote:
I was on alert at Fairchild AFB, when this movie
came out on HBO in 1990.
Everybody from the Crew Chiefs to the flight
crews crammed in to the crew
lounge and the briefing room to watch it. By
Dawn's early light was a very
funny movie to us at the 325th bomb Squadron.
It is important to note:
1. At the time we did not have Female crewmembers,
only the KC-135 tankers
had them.

2. The 92BW had B-52Hs on alert, not the make
of a G model D model crap they
had. I have never been able to walk from the
Defense station to the IP
seat standing straight up before. The IFR bathtub
would bite your head.

3. The Alert pad was off the runway, and as
you drive your POV to the
facility you do not drive up a row of bombers.
POVs where not allowed on the
flight line. To do so would have you finding
out what the word JACK-UP
meant.

There are many other examples in this movie
that made us all laugh out loud.
But the best was how the co-pilot kept correcting
the Aircraft commander. Oh
the 325th patch on the flight suits where from
the Second World War, not the
one worn by us in 1990.

Way to many errors to list here, just another
bad movie about the boys in
SAC or the Air Force. Not as bad as some that
has come out, but bad just the
same.

Now Bomber B52 was an all right movie, and a
gathering of eagles. Strategic
Air Command was more about the early days of
SAC with B36s and B47s, but was
cool just the same.




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