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Originally Posted by Tudorp15
The war aside.. I will honestly tell you when my level of respect rose to heights for the British military.. Well, while I served in what was know as SAC (Strategic Air Command) as a systems electrician on the B-52D/G. We used to hold friendly "Bomb Competitions". It was not as "popular" or well known as "Red Flag" (Top Gun type of tripe), but it was SAC's version of that. We used to participate along side of the Brits in their Vulcan Bomber (one of the coolest British Bombers IMHO. Well, my respect for the Brits rose to an all time high when after our ground support during the competitions, us mechanics, American, German, French, Israeli, Canadian, and Brits alike would go to the nearest watering hole for refreshing beverage. Well, the Brits and the Deutch would nearly vomit if we started drinking American beer, and generally, they would bring their own. Their cargo planes that supported the effort, I think were more to carry their ale than it was to carry their support equipment. They used to steel a few of us Americans and take off to help them lighten their cargo planes load. I tell you what, us Americans, who used to think we could drink, would be like we were made of rubber, and couldn't talk and those danged Brits used to have to carry us back to the dorm to put us to bed to rest up for the next day's events.. THOSE damned Brits could drink brother, and walk away when us American's forgot we even had legs.. lol
Cheers..
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lol i like it tudorp
just down the road from me at baggington airport (coventry) there is a vulcan bomber on display you pay a pound and you can go inside with a guide HOW THE HELL THEY FLEW THEM I NEVER KNOW the windows were next to useless and then they had a screen thing that dropped down in the event of a atomic blast so the windows would of shut off compleatly
they had to take off and land by instruments only !! and there is a cool periscope thing that looks backwards out the bottom of the plane i think it was a bomb sight but could be wrong been a while since ive been there i might go soon and get some pics to share with you guys