Posted by Larry Wallace on December 02, 2011 at 21:23:37 from (67.142.168.139):
In Reply to: O.T.. BUFFs posted by JerryS on December 02, 2011 at 20:32:37:
JerryS,
Yep, that's a B-1.
A little story about the BUFF's. I was in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The Gulf War had started that night. I was preparing my KC-135E model Stratotanker for some fuel cell work that needed to be done since my Jet always seemed to leak with large fuel loads.
My aircraft was parallel to and about 300 yards from the military runway. There were two runways that ran parallel to each other and the one furthest away was considered the civilian side. Even though it was night the place was well lit up and you could see for a considerably distance. While defueling my broke jet I saw a B-52 make his approach, landed, popped his chute, and roll down to a hot brake area where they did some checks before sending it on to it's parking spot for more maintenance.
A few minutes later a second B-52 repeated the same process, landed, popped his chute, and rolled on down to the same area as the first BUFF.
A third B-52 approached, landed, did not pop his chute but rolled on down but to a different area. I thought that was interesting, wondered briefly why but then went on doing my job.
The next day I heard that a B-52 had his tail cone shot/blown off by some sort of explosion by something the Iraqi's had been shooting at our boys.
Then I thought, oh, wow, that must have been the BUFF I saw last night! No wonder his chute did not deploy when he landed, he didn't have a chute anymore!
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