[R-390] depot dawg - demeaning ?!?!?! Humph!

[mikea]

On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 05:01:37PM -0400, Tim Shoppa wrote:
> > About once a year, the only still-flying B-29 flies into this area
> 
> That B-29 has quite a history, and I'm sure many of our R-390(A)'s
> have quite a history, but get a load of this: The service life of
> existing B-52's is projected to last through nearly the year 2050.
> 
> Wow.
> 
> I mean, mind-blowingly wow.
> 
> The current flying B-52's are mostly from 1960-1962.
> 
> Our grandkids and great-grandkids and maybe great-great grandkids will
> be flying these BFUF's.

And, in a stunningly on-topic post that also deals with B-52s, I heard from
a ham at Tinker AFB (B-52 refit and refurb facility) that someone there 
made a little booboo a some years back and fat-fingered the NSN of a tube
he was ordering. Only one digit of the NSN. The _first_ digit, he said. It
got him an entire B-52G left wing, on a big flatbed semitrailer, and 2 
2 cranes to lift it off. 

All he wanted was a 6J6 or some such. See! I said it was on-topic. 

(and then there was my friend who ordered 28 bolts for a C-130, and got
asked where he wanted the boxcar, and the problem with the disk drive in
the computer that monitored the stock levels at Tinker's refit facility 
and auto-ordered stuff when it got below the order point. I'll tell those
lie^Wstories another time. 

-- 
Mike Andrews, W5EGO
mikea at mikea.ath.cx
Tired old sysadmin