"Guy Alcala" wrote in message
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Kevin Brooks wrote:

"Buzzer" wrote in message
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In th 60s skin-painting Buffs at 75 to 125 miles while they were down
at 250 ft.?

I don't believe the B-52's were typically down in the weeds during the
sixties, when the force still included a lot of C, D, and F models--they
were still doing a lot of higher altitude work. Like in Vietnam.

SAC certainly would have been down in the weeds in the '60s when feet dry
over the FSU if executing the SIOP (or training for it), which is what
Buzzer
was referring to. But I'm sure Walt was referring to ranges on them
during
enroute high altitude cruise.

Depends on when in the sixties, AFAIK. I ran across one former B-52 pilot's
comments that the transition to the lower level profile, at least in his
case, happened during the "early sixties"; FAS indicates it happened earlier
than that, but then again FAS folks were not flying them... :-) Of course a
lot of the B-52 force during the sixties were lugging Hound Dogs, which
would have been launched from altitude in most cases and did not require a
low-altitude penetration. The point was that Walt's comment about acquiring
the B-52's was valid.

Brooks


Guy