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Published: 2007-11-29 20:23:26 +0000 UTC; Views: 544; Favourites: 17; Downloads: 9
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uppersurface camo pattern applied to SAC B-52s during the Vietnam conflict,c.1968. BUFF,s flew at such high altitudes,{50,000+ft}invisible and inaudible, that their victims didn,t know they were there until the bombs were already hitting them. very frightening! many North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong troops were known to just stand frozen,cry and wet their pants in terror during a B-52 strike,they called them "The Unseen Death"Related content
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Save The Hog! if the USAF don,t like them,i,m sure they would look just fine in dark OD with ARMY stencilling.......sort of like an attack chopper.
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XD Attack choppers are for little schoolgirls. Hogs all the way!
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attack choppers are still a nasty weapons system......and i,m sure a lot of dead tank crews would agree on that. they found out the hard way.
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Eh, true enough. For places where you can't build a runway, just clear a few trees, an attack chopper is a choice that you won't likely regret.
But shoulder-launched SAM's have gotten deadly enough that even the mighty Apache and Cobra have been knocked from their perches more than once...as I'm sure that the wars in Iraq and Afganistan have proven.
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even they can,t win,em all. War Sucks.
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Yeah, and it sucks harder the closer to the ground you get. At least, it seems that way from what everybody says.
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ground fire is dangerous,no matter what kind of aircraft you,re flying in.
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Nice. Built this kit when I was a kid. Didn't look that good though. Knew a guy who was a tail gunner in one towards the end of Vietnam. Flew three missions and then it ended.
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Monogram 1/72nd. Big plane.
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got enough of those kits to build a squadron! the Tamiya kit is a bit hard to come by,but very accurate. they made a D which is still available,and an F,very hard to come by!
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just a bit harder to obtain,and a bit pricey,especially the F.
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they must still have the molds. the Tamiya D and F are almost identical kits,just with different engines. i was gratified to see Tamiya re-release some of their 1/100 MiniJet kits recently,this way i can build them without having to dip into my stash of precious{and irreplaceable} early 70s originals!
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Tamiya makes a nice kit.
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get what you pay for......
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oh,for the days when this hobby was fairly inexpensive...........! not Kid Stuff anymore.
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same with comic books! only sold in specialty shops now!
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Borders sells comic books and graphic novels and I believe Barnes and Noble does as well. The bottom fell out of the industry a number of years ago and a lot of the shops closed up. There are a couple near me.
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got too pricey,just like plastic models. i remember when we could find both in all sorts of stores.
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It was an artificial spike driven by speculators. The bottom dropped out of the sports card market back in the early '90's. There was a company near us called Scoreboard that specialized in baseball and other sports and entertainment stuff and they sank faster than the "Titanic" when the market collapsed.
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so many speculators need to be hanged. all they seem to do is just screw it up for everybody. BTW,you may want to take a look at a petetion to close the ENRON loophole and vote on it. should be on Google,close the enron loophole.com. we can thank a bunch of greedy speculators for our present high fuel/energy prices,and it,s time to put a stop to them!
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The US is one of the countries that allows trading in petroleum futures. Some countries don't and their prices are much more stable. I think there might be the beginnings of a push to ban speculation in certain commodities.
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we allow too much of that sort of crap. it,s time to put a stop to these crooks. some things are just too vital to be in the hands of some selfish,greedy people who just have no sense of right from wrong.
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Most of them are just a bunch of boneheads that only see numbers.
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i,v e got some Big Numbers for them.....like how many years behind bars they deserve to get,along with the numbers stenciled on their prison clothes!
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Many years behind bars.
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or better yet.....a bullet to the back of the head. lots of tax-money saved too.
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And charge their families for the bullets.
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just like the Chinese do! man,oh,man,nobody committs a crime over there and gets away with it! not even elected/appointed public officials! i saw an article once in a British newspaper where 3 officials in charge of highway construction in one of the provinces were caught having substandard work done,charging too much to Bejing and pocketing the difference........and got caught......! all 3 sentenced to execution. now if only we were that strict........!
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we do need to be a lot more strict. if not that,at least an immediate and permanent dismissal from public service,and possible jail time for offenders.
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Do the crime, do the time.
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damn right. and not in a "Gentlemen,s Prison" either.....!
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My late uncle was the warden at Rahway back in the late'60's.
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just the place for a lot of those Wall Street crooks....."yea,you Bubba,s Bitch now,Rich Boy!}
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no more double-standards. crime is crime.
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i usually am. but nobody ever listens until it,s too late!
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i just let people,s own mistakes blow up in their faces....sad,but many just have to learn the hard way.
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I think we all have at some time or another.
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and more coming. Buffy looked her best in polished metal with white undersides,i always thought!
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