Kev writes:

What putdown? I read that statement as a compliment. You were
commenting about growing old, and he was inferring that the things you
were involved with years ago, haven't grown old and useless.

Exactly. Other aircraft have come and gone, but some aircraft, such
as the B-52, have outlived them all, and still serve just as they did
when they were "young."

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