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Offline Kamaji

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The B-52 is 70 Years Old (as of April 15)
« on: April 20, 2022, 10:17:09 pm »



The YB-52, the second XB-52 modified with more operational equipment, first flew on 15 April 1952 with "Tex" Johnston as pilot.[

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Re: The B-52 is 70 Years Old (as of April 15)
« Reply #1 on: April 20, 2022, 11:53:23 pm »
BUFFs!

(Those suckers are big, too!)
How God must weep at humans' folly! Stand fast! God knows what he is doing!
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Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

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