Mark asked:
Also, refresh my memory, it was a B52 that Slim Pickens was dropped from
in the movie ( as per BUFDRVR's signature )?? It's been a long time
since I saw the flick. And as more of a side note, was BUFDRVR's H
model built before or after the movie came out?

IIRC the rmovie elease date was late '63 or early '64. The movie really P.O'd
my ROTC instructor, "If they are going to put the '52 in the movies, they ought
to make the interior correct!"
The USAF didn't cooperate with the movie company very muchm if at all. Sat in
the enclosed portion of the drive-inm ate popcorn, drank a beer or three,
damned near choked from laughing so much.
Finally got my Dad to watch it twenty years later. He thought General Ripper
was a perfect match for his squadron CO in 1944.

oxmoron1
The movie also convinced me to do what it took to stay out of SAC. Sorry
Buffdrvr, but wvwn MAC was more attractive to me then.