[SOC] Bombs Awaaaaaaayyy

[Chris Redding]

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From: Jan <kf0z@n0rxd.ampr.org>
To: <soc@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 7:10 PM
Subject: [SOC] Bombs Awaaaaaaayyy


> Interesting that you should bring that up, Chris. My son and I were
sitting
> in the cockpit of what they said was the only working B-29 (out of 4,000
> built) in the world (it better have been... by the time I got into the
cock-
> pit it had cost me $14). Next morning we watched it and a B-24 Liberator
> take off into the haze of on-coming rainstorms at the Cedar Rapids
airport.
> Neat. But not nearly as big as I thought it would be. (Neither was Air
Force
> One... Bush keeps coming to town to promote the career of some braindead
> Republican in our newly gerrymandered congressional district). I think
they
> were off to bomb some trailer park or something else no one would miss
(oops,
> sorry Chris)... no really, they are out your way somewhere this week, Rob.
> Somewhere on the Iowa/Nebraska or Iowa/South Dakota border. I saw the
schedule
> and recall that it was only about 200 miles a hop before they sat for a
week
> and the weekending airline pilots who fly them come back and play "30
Second
> Over Tokyo" once again (I would tell you what that was in kilometers,
Chris,
> but oddly, it seems that Americans are the final (and fanatical) users of
> the "English" system of weights and measures (but thankfully not their
late,
> unlamented monetary system!), and I can't find my calculator. 73 Jan KF0Z
#389
>
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