Nope…just sayin’ what I may have been seein’. Too some I probably grew up better than most…but I saw it as just growin’ up. Hit the bat in the street, drinkin’ out of water hose, hide-n-seek in the trees, etc. How about you?
I have done all of that, been much better off than average, went to prep school, an Ivy League university, and a fraternity. Dated many beautiful sorority girls. Also, been through harder times than you can imagine at one time or another, done menial jobs when that is what it took. So don't generalize about people just because you resent their advantages.
pics are a c-5 galaxy swallowing a c-130 fuselage, xb or yb 52 with the tandem seating. both were destroyed during lady bird johnson's base beautification plan in 60's. Curtis LeMay had Boeing change the seating to side by side for better crew cooperation.
Boeing b-52a as delivered. Very good chance its balls 3 as the numbers reflect the order made, and this one is in the boeing's house livery. 001 was xb 002 was yb, and balls 3 was third built. NB-52A Balls 3 launching an x-15. Balls 8 (0008), NB-52b. Retired 2004. Now guards the entrance to Edwards AFB. Pic is showing the wheels going up hauling a northrop m2-f2 or f3 lifting body. next are the missions. Early b-52's wound up as trainers/NASA. The c model was the first to get built in large numbers. D's were the workhorses in Vietnam. They seemed to do better against the Vietnamese air defenses than the other models. As such, they were modified as "Big Bellies". They were changed to increase load to 108 750lbs bombs. Loading one must have taken hours. About 480,000 lbs fully loaded. The profile from below has been making enemies s*** their pants for 70+ years.
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