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So *that's* what makes it go...

On the grounds of the Korean War Memorial they have an old B-52 (the version with a manned tail gunner position).

You know, one of these.

B-52 at the Korean War Memorial, Seoul.

Now here I thought it was those eight, water-injected ozone destroyers on the wing that made this thing fly.

But I was set straight by a young Korean girl who was very proud of her English and her erudition. She told me how the B-52 *really* gets into the air.

I was solemnly informed - it was the Nimbus 2000 that made the B-52 fly.

Nimbus-powered!

Who am I to argue with incontrovertible proof like that?

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LOL! AFBrother would have to set her straight on that assumption. The Buff was his plane during the Gulf War. The B52's flew bombing missions from Diego Garcia, but they never got the maintenance wing up and running before the war was over. Therefore, they used to fly all of the planes needing overhauls and all broken engines back to Barksdale AFB. I was there in April '91, a few months after the war was over, and the hanger was still filled end to end with engines needing repair. Madness, I tell you!
 
Yeah, well wait'll it upgrades to a Firebolt!
 
That's not a Nimbus! It's a Kami-sama! note the bamboo handle.
 
Figures that BCR *would* argue with a child... Evil is her first name, after all.
 
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