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• RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 109,898

  January 2021

  B-52 Stratofortress

  My uncle flew the B 29 but the B 52 is the GOAT of all GOATS

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• YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 36,766

  January 2021

  B-29 Superfortress

  The B-29 finished off a war and saved hundreds of thousands of American lives and millions of Japanese ones. And yes @BearsWiin the Red Army invading Manchuria played a major role here as well.
  
  
  

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• YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 36,766

  January 2021 edited January 2021

  B-29 Superfortress

  RaceBannon said:

  My uncle flew the B 29 but the B 52 is the GOAT of all GOATS

  A strong case can be made for the B-52. The service life is w/o peer. It would be like having B-29s still dropping bombs in the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
  
  We'll never know how many millions of American lives were saved by heavy the B-52s ready to nuke the Ruskies into oblivion.
  
  
  
  
  But still, it never truly won us a war in the same way the B-29 did.

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• GrundleStiltzkin Member Posts: 61,516

  January 2021

  B-52 Stratofortress

  There's an interesting story that my History Guysm probably know better, about the Soviets getting hold of 4 B-29s after emergency landings in their territory. They copied them, slavishly, including using imperial measurements when the engineers only knew metric,

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• YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 36,766

  January 2021

  B-29 Superfortress

  GrundleStiltzkin said:

  There's an interesting story that my History Guysm probably know better, about the Soviets getting hold of 4 B-29s after emergency landings in their territory. They copied them, slavishly, including using imperial measurements when the engineers only knew metric,

  I saw a great doc once on this on the history channel. The planes were interned in the USSR when they were still neutral in the Pacific and the Ruskies copied them down to the last nut and bolt. We? first saw them at some air show and were like WTF?
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-4
  
  
  
  

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• GrundleStiltzkin Member Posts: 61,516

  January 2021

  B-52 Stratofortress

  Always had a soft spot for the F-111. I mean, Aardvark is a great name for a nuclear harbinger of death. And it's a penetrator, lulz
  

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• HFNY Member Posts: 5,280

  January 2021

  B-17 Flying Fortress

  The B-17 was the original so tough to turn my back on it.

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• Fishpo31 Member Posts: 2,541

  January 2021 edited January 2021

  B-29 Superfortress

  Gotta go with the B-29. Got my pops out of the South Pacific, freeing him up to focus on other things, like eventually making me...It is the most important airplane of my life, literally...

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• YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 36,766

  January 2021

  B-29 Superfortress

  GrundleStiltzkin said:

  Always had a soft spot for the F-111. I mean, Aardvark is a great name for a nuclear harbinger of death. And it's a penetrator, lulz
  

  Medium bomber poll.

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• dnc Member Posts: 56,821

  January 2021

  B-17 Flying Fortress

  I am nothing if not a homer.
  
  Built in South Seattle.
  
  Most famous one they made is the Memphis Belle.
  
  Like I could vote for anything else.
  
  
  

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• YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 36,766

  January 2021

  B-29 Superfortress

  Fishpo31 said:

  Gotta go with the B-29. Got my pops out of the South Pacific, freeing him up to focus on other things, like eventually making me...It is the most important airplane of my life, literally...

  Similar story for me. Grand pappy Captain Yella led a company in France, Germany and Austria from Aug '44 to May '45. He didn't have enough points to get out of the service yet so they had him training for the invasion of the Japanese home islands. Then the B-29 did what no other plane had the range and payload to achieve.
  
  The story goes that my father was conceived in a drunken night of VJ Day partying.

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• GrundleStiltzkin Member Posts: 61,516

  January 2021

  B-52 Stratofortress

  YellowSnow said:

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  GrundleStiltzkin said:

  Always had a soft spot for the F-111. I mean, Aardvark is a great name for a nuclear harbinger of death. And it's a penetrator, lulz
  

  Medium bomber poll.

  Heavy enough
  
  

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• GrundleStiltzkin Member Posts: 61,516

  January 2021

  B-52 Stratofortress

  B-36 was a great engineering "betcha we can" effort.
  
  

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• RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 109,898

  January 2021

  B-52 Stratofortress

  The B 52 won the cold war

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• YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 36,766

  January 2021

  B-29 Superfortress

  GrundleStiltzkin said:

  B-36 was a great engineering "betcha we can" effort.
  
  

  Until the B-47 and B-52s came online it was in the only plane with the range and payload to get an H bomb to Moscow.

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• GrundleStiltzkin Member Posts: 61,516

  January 2021

  B-52 Stratofortress

  dnc said:

  I am nothing if not a homer.
  
  Built in South Seattle.
  
  Most famous one they made is the Memphis Belle.
  
  Like I could vote for anything else.
  
  
  

  Pretty sure my grandmother was a Rosie on those planes.

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• YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 36,766

  January 2021

  B-29 Superfortress

  RaceBannon said:

  The B 52 won the cold war

  Lots of stuff won the cold war, but it played a key role.
  
  People also forget the B-52 gave us? the 707 and things have never been the same since. Am I right @Logistics or am I right?

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• RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 109,898

  January 2021

  B-52 Stratofortress

  When our missiles were blowing up on the launch pad we had 24/7 coverage via the B 52. The projection of strength was amazing and awe inspiring to the villages around the world

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• dnc Member Posts: 56,821

  January 2021

  B-17 Flying Fortress

  GrundleStiltzkin said:

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  dnc said:

  I am nothing if not a homer.
  
  Built in South Seattle.
  
  Most famous one they made is the Memphis Belle.
  
  Like I could vote for anything else.
  
  
  

  Pretty sure my grandmother was a Rosie on those planes.

  YKWYWF

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• CFetters_Nacho_Lover Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 31,309

  January 2021

  B-36 Peacemaker

  GrundleStiltzkin said:

  B-36 was a great engineering "betcha we can" effort.
  
  

  B-29 or B-52 is probably what I’d go with but a name like Peacemaker is pretty awesome.

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