andybarton Posted June 4, 2007 Share #1 Posted June 4, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) These are big beggars. Unfortunately, the Imperial War Museum at Duxford chooses to display this monster in a hangar completely surrounded by other aircraft, such that the scale of the thing is completely lost. Seeing one bank over the motorway, returning from dropping its load on Belgrade, is an image that will stay with me forever. [ATTACH]40480[/ATTACH] Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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JE Posted June 4, 2007 Share #2 Posted June 4, 2007 Hmmm, looks like the buses here in Bogota...Nice tight crop, I like it. I've only ever seen one at the air show in Chicago, flying low over the lake, and as I was a kid at the time I was quite impressed at what seemed to be a building in the air. Jonathan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artichoke Posted June 5, 2007 Share #3 Posted June 5, 2007 the ominous yet ordinary nature of this beast is well depicted (the windshield washers are a great detail) what amazes me it that I believe many of these behemoths still see duty Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
robsteve Posted June 5, 2007 Share #4 Posted June 5, 2007 Notice the window blinds. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artichoke Posted June 6, 2007 Share #5 Posted June 6, 2007 Notice the window blinds. I think these are used when they drop the big one Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
abrewer Posted June 8, 2007 Share #6 Posted June 8, 2007 I think these are used when they drop the big one Several times over... ...if you're on the receiving end. Thanks. Allan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wda Posted June 8, 2007 Share #7 Posted June 8, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) It is beginning to show its age; not to be confused with the space shuttle! David Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Motivfindender Posted June 11, 2007 Share #8 Posted June 11, 2007 Millions of vietnamese people looked at this B-52 with other eyes - I personally saw some of them in a hospital burned by napalm, no more faces, just 70% of their surface burned, nothing than scars instead of skin. One was 7 years old, his sister 9 y o. Sorry that I don´t agree to complain about an "inconvenient" presentation of this killing machine, transporting nothing than every type of weapons indexed by the geneva Convention... If something is really disturbing me, this would be proudly presenting a B-52 in a "IMPERIAL" museum, used in a war with 99% civilians of the whole body count. Another world record. Bravo! Dirk Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
neila Posted June 15, 2007 Share #9 Posted June 15, 2007 War causes casualties on all sides and some of the most memorable photographic images portray the suffering from war. I tend to view the machinery of war as rather chilling icons in some way - a bit like this ominous looking aircraft. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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