So what would you call ORI, Chrome Dome, and something called ARC
Light, etc., on the "biggies"?
Have you ever been around the maintenace shops for B-52s when they
were regenerating aircraft for alert after an ORI?

Can I get an Amen?

Sorties are apples and oranges when comparing fighters and bombers.
They are two very different machines. There were more ECM systems
alone on a bomber than all the electronic systems that could be
crammed in a fighter. I am not sure, but I think a bomber just might
have a few more ounces of fuel than a fighter so it just might take a
few minutes more for refueling. Then there is lox, expendables, etc.
That was the good old days though. I wonder how the "biggies" have
done in our latest wars? All canned schedules, etc.?

I don't know what that means? We flew so many different types of sorties, I
can't even begin to count. Just for daily training from a MNX side, different
fuel loads, different weapons loads, some flare loads, some no flare loads, ECM
software XX here, ECM software XY there, pylons or no pylons, Litening II or no
Litening II, Combat Track II or no Combat Track II, I could literally go on for
twenty or so more iterations. So my question is; Walt, what is a "canned heavy
sortie"?


BUFDRVR

"Stay on the bomb run boys, I'm gonna get those bomb doors open if it harelips
everyone on Bear Creek"