B-52 Crewdogs: What B-52 Crews Faced In The Cold War

B-52 Crewdogs: What B-52 Crews Faced In The Cold War
Author:
Publisher: Evelyn Cabrera
Total Pages: 521
Release: 2022-07-25
Genre: History
ISBN:

B-52, likewise called Stratofortress, U.S. long-range weighty aircraft, was planned by the Boeing Company in 1948, first flown in 1952, and first conveyed for military assistance in 1955. However initially expected to be a nuclear bomb transporter equipped for arriving at the Soviet Union, it has demonstrated versatility for certain missions, and many B-52s stayed in help in the mid-21st hundred years. This book incorporates: - Part 1 - Military Careers How I Became a Crewdog - George Donald Jackson My Story And I'm Sticking To It - Steve McCutcheon The Career of a Civilian Crew Member - George R Dempsey - Part 2 - Survival S-V80-A "Survivor" - Tommy Towery Shootdown - George Donald Jackson The Seventh Confirmed Survivor - William R. "Bar" Gabel My Nylon Let Down - George Schryer Blood Chit - The Last Hope Of A Downed Crewmember - Arthur Craig Mizner A Typhoon Story - Kent Dodson Desert Survival and Rescue - Gary Henley, Dave Lay, Rich Vande Verde The Crash of Ash 01 - Dennis Thibodeau In case We Forget - Tommy Towery - Part 3 - Training Peacetime in The SAC - Rich Vande Verde Warning - Priceless-Ken Schmitz The Secret Trip to England - Gary Henley, Dave Lay Child Radar in A Grown-Up World - Glenn Burchard The Elephant in The Living Room - TommyTowery SAC Rewards Those Who Serve - Ken Schmitz The Check Ride - Ken Schmitz Instructions to Bust An ORI And Come Out Looking Good - Steve McCutcheon Everyone is ready and available For Red Flag TDY - Tommy Towery CEVG Checkride - The Flight That Was Doomed From The Start - Ken Schmitz Carswell Crew R/E/S-09 - Gary Henley - Part 4 - Cold War A Hard Day's Night - Bill Robinson Activity Sea Fish - Lothar ""Nick"" Maier Chrome Dome Chronicles - Lothar "Nick" Maier From The BUFF to The Moon - Karl D. (Ned) Neela Memories of D-model Alert and "The Great Inquisition" - Rock Roszak Ready Antics - Gary Henley - Section 5 - Southeast Asia U-Tapao Memories - Charles "Throw" Talcott B*U*F*F (Big Ugly Fat F*****) Cinnamon - Lothar "Nick" Maier The EW Bomb Run - George Donald Jackson The Habu Light - Arthur Craig Mizner A True Gunner's Story (Told by His Nav) - Bill Beavers When a Bomber Pilot… Always a Bomber Pilot - George W. Golding First Paved Buffs In Combat - Dave Hofstadter Number Two, You're On Fire! - Jim Carter Story of the Chili Donut, U-Tapao, 1972 - Bill Beavers Move! Move! Three SAMs - Six O'clock - Closing Fast! - Arthur Craig Mizner A Birthday Trip to Remember - Don McCrabb Who's Got It? - Karl D. (Ned) Neela --- - Section 6 - Tales Stabilizer Trim Failure - Lothar "Nick" Maier Pucker Factor - Vincent H. Osborne Heavy armament specialist In Hot Water - C. C. "Stop" Walker Honey Bucket Bomber - Albert F. Spohn A Bathroom Poet's Dream: Writing In the Buff - Vincent H. Osborne Heavy armament specialists' Tales - Ralph Stearns The Birth of KBUF - Dave Lay KBUF - The Rest of The Story - Gary Henley Frightening Holbrook - Dave Lay The Fixated Pilot - Dave Lay Crewdog Sense of Humor - Glenn O. Burchard More Gunner Memories - Harry Tolmich The Day the IG Got A Ticket - - Gary Henley, Dave Lay, Rich Vande Verde The Gamblers - Gary Henley --- - Part 7 - Bar Stories Bar Stories

Notable Encounters

Notable Encounters
Author: Chris Adams
Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2019-01-28
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1644160714

The author characterizes the book as a memoir, entitled, Notable Encounters. As such, he has diligently documented his recollection of dozens of memorable special people that he enjoyed the unique opportunity of meeting over the years of his professional experiences. Many of the names of those whom he had the pleasure of meeting are easily recognized, while others are introduced to the reader for the first time. Beyond identifying and characterizing his meeting opportunities and the interaction with those encountered, he has for the benefit of the reader, provided an in-depth biographical background summary of each personage. As such, his treatise serves also to recall history, significant times and events in many instances. A number of those whom he had the pleasure of meeting became friends for life, while other introductions were the first and last. An interesting perspective that he also introduces in the opening of his writing is one of the history and importance of the handshake. He characterizes that virtually every encounter, greeting, or meeting between two people is initiated with a handshake. The handshake, a practice that has existed in some form or another for thousands of years, most often engaged upon an initial meeting or greeting. The purpose of clasping hands""to convey trust, respect, balance, and equality. Join Chris Adams in encountering, exchanging handshakes and engaging some noteworthy and incredible personalities along his life's journey.

Flying from the Black Hole

Flying from the Black Hole
Author: Robert O Harder
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2013-03-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1612513174

Air Force navigators and bombardiers have long labored under the shadow of pilots—their contributions undervalued, misunderstood, or simply unknown to the general public. This was especially the case with the non-pilot officer aircrew in the Vietnam and Cold War-era B-52 Stratofortress. Of the six people who operated the bomber, three wore navigator wings—two of those men were also bombardiers, the other an electronic warfare officer. Without the navigator-bombardiers in particular, executing the nuclear war strike plan or flying Southeast Asian conventional bombing sorties would have been impossible. This book reveals who these men were and what they did down in the “Black Hole,” a story told by one of their own.

The Eleven Days of Christmas

The Eleven Days of Christmas
Author: Marshall L. Michel (III)
Publisher: Encounter Books
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2002
Genre: History
ISBN: 1893554279

In December 1972, with an increasingly dovish Congress preparing to cut off all funding for the war in Vietnam, President Richard Nixon ordered the bombing of Hanoi by the Strategic Air Command's "big stick," its fleet of B-52 bombers. Never before had a B-52 been lost in combat, but the North Vietnamese SAM missile crews knocked them out of the sky in the first days of the engagement. Despite the losses, the surviving bombers kept coming, inflicting huge losses on the North Vietnamese. For eleven days the momentum swung back and forth, moving from what appeared to be a certain U.S. triumph, to a possible North Vietnamese victory, to the ultimate ambiguous denouement in which both sides won and lost.

Flight of the Old Dog

Flight of the Old Dog
Author: Dale Brown
Publisher: Trident E-Book Distribution Services
Total Pages: 463
Release: 2024-07-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1475607024

Flight of the Old Dog is one of the original and classic military techno-thrillers in the entire world. It is the basis of the PC flight simulator "Megafortress" published by Three-Sixty Pacific. It has been translated into twelve languages, and sales have exceeded a million copies. The United States and the Soviet Union are on the brink of nuclear war. At a top-secret research facility at Kavaznya, Sibera, the Soviets have developed a ground-based laser weapon capable of shooting down American satellites, and they are betting that the American president doesn't have the guts to risk starting a nuclear exchange. But at a top-secret flight test site in the Nevada desert called "Dreamland," a team of test pilots and engineers have created the Megafortress: a venerable B-52 Stratofortress strategic bombers modified with stealth technology, computers, digital avionics, state-of-the-art weaponry, and performance-enhancing features that makes it unlike any B-52 bomber--or any other warplane--ever flown. Now it's time to flight-test the Megafortress, and the Air Force assembles the best pilots, bombardiers, and navigators to see what this creation can do. One of them is Captain Patrick McLanahan, considered the best B-52 bombardier in the Air Force. The others on the crew are hard-charging pilots and world-class engineers, and McLanahan is nothing like them. But the team leader and aircraft commander, Lt. General Brad Elliott, can see that McLanahan is a quiet professional and a natural-born leader. Soviet spies soon discover the Megafortress, and they recognize that a fleet of these advanced planes can practically neutralize all of the Soviet Union's air defenses. Back-channel negotiations begin, and the U.S. is willing to mothball the Megafortress if the Soviets mothball the Kavaznya laser. That is completely unacceptable to the Soviet leader, and he hatches a daring plan to deal with the Megafortress while keeping his devastating laser weapon. Just prior to a live fire flight test, a team of Russian commandos invade Dreamland with the goal of stealing the Megafortress…or destroying it. The crew just barely manages to escape. The American president orders the top-secret aircraft back to Dreamland, but Brad Elliott and the vice president hatch a daring plan of their own: use the Megafortress to penetrate the Soviet Union's stiff air defenses and destroy the Kavaznya laser. Thus begins the aerial cat-and-mouse game across ten thousand miles and wave after wave of the Soviet Union's most advanced air defenses and fighter-interceptors, which are all on full alert. Most of the Megafortress's crew have no military training. They have supplies for only a few hours, and are outfitted for the deserts of southern Nevada, not the frigid steppes of Siberia. They have flown the Megafortress only a few times, and only in carefully scripted test flights. With Brad Elliott at the controls, Patrick McLanahan realizes that it's up to him to organize and get the rest of the crew ready for the fight of their lives.

Voices from an Old Warrior

Voices from an Old Warrior
Author: Christopher J.B. Hoctor
Publisher:
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2014
Genre: Airplanes, Military
ISBN: 9781616004606

Former USAF pilot Christopher Hoctor examines the history and safety record of the Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft.

Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker

Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker
Author: Robert Smith Hopkins
Publisher: Voyageur Press (MN)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1997
Genre: Airplanes
ISBN: 9781857800692

Subtitled: More Than Just a Tanker. This highly readable text follows the development and service use of this globe-trotting aircraft and takes you through tasks the KC-135 has performed such as transport, tanker, weather recce, reconnaissance and intelligence gathering, special ops, test-bed and more. Charts every variant and sub-variant. The most complete KC-135 history available. Sftbd., 8 1/2x 11, 224 pgs., 185 bandw ill., 50 color.

AMST'05 Advanced Manufacturing Systems and Technology

AMST'05 Advanced Manufacturing Systems and Technology
Author: Elso Kuljanic
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 818
Release: 2005-07-01
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9783211265376

Manufacturing a product is not difficult, the difficulty consists in manufacturing a product of high quality, at a low cost and rapidly. Drastic technological advances are changing global markets very rapidly. In such conditions the ability to compete successfully must be based on innovative ideas and new products which has to be of high quality yet low in price. One way to achieve these objecti ves would be through massive investments in research of computer based technology and by applying the approaches presented in this book. The First International Conference on Advanced Manufacturing Systems and Technology AMST87 was held in Opatija (Croatia) in October 1987. The Second International Conference on Advanced Manufacturing Systems and Technology AMSV90 was held in Trento (Italy) in lune 1990. The Third, Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Conferences on Advanced Manufacturing Systems and Technology were all held in Udine (Italy) as follows: AMST93 in April 1993, AMST96 in September 1996, AMST99 in June 1999 and AMST02 in June 2002.

Linebacker II

Linebacker II
Author: James R. McCarthy
Publisher:
Total Pages: 228
Release: 1979
Genre: Government publications
ISBN: