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"heavyhorses" wrote in message
... I'm surprised these are still flying - must be a bit long in the tooth. |
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"Alan Erskine" wrote in message ... "heavyhorses" wrote in message ... I'm surprised these are still flying - must be a bit long in the tooth. Uk Serials (http://www.ukserials.com/ ) web site list it as XZ591 Sea King HAR3 f/f 12/02/1978, So its been about as long as some of the Hawks at Valley ! |
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On Sat, 18 Apr 2009 03:49:08 -0400, heavyhorses wrote
(in article ): "Alan Erskine" wrote in message ... "heavyhorses" wrote in message ... I'm surprised these are still flying - must be a bit long in the tooth. Uk Serials (http://www.ukserials.com/ ) web site list it as XZ591 Sea King HAR3 f/f 12/02/1978, So its been about as long as some of the Hawks at Valley ! That's a _youngster_. There's at least one B-52 at Barksdale AFB in Louisiana which is currently being flown by the _grandson_ of its first pilot. He calls it the 'family bomber', as his father flew it, too... |
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On Sat, 18 Apr 2009 11:25:44 -0400, hielan' laddie
wrote: On Sat, 18 Apr 2009 03:49:08 -0400, heavyhorses wrote (in article ): "Alan Erskine" wrote in message ... "heavyhorses" wrote in message ... I'm surprised these are still flying - must be a bit long in the tooth. Uk Serials (http://www.ukserials.com/ ) web site list it as XZ591 Sea King HAR3 f/f 12/02/1978, So its been about as long as some of the Hawks at Valley ! That's a _youngster_. There's at least one B-52 at Barksdale AFB in Louisiana which is currently being flown by the _grandson_ of its first pilot. He calls it the 'family bomber', as his father flew it, too... Some KC-135s are even older than the B-52s they nurse. |
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