Re: [MV] Believe It or Not B-52

From: Darrell Ramsell (daram@comcast.net)
Date: Fri Sep 23 2005 - 20:54:46 PDT


Man, the people on this list sometime just amaze me!

Darrell

----- Original Message -----
From: "M151" <m151@cox.net>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 8:40 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] Believe It or Not B-52

> B52B Tail number 53-0380
> Attached to the 95th Bomb Wing
> Lost 7/4/61
> Shot down by a New Mexico ANG F-100 with an AIM-9 Sidewinder.
> Aircraft crashed on Mt. Taylor N.M..
>
> Cause was electrical fault of firing circuit on fighter, resulting in
> inadvertent launch of missile.
>
> Not the first Buff to crash but by my records the first to be shot down
> and not crash as a result of mechanical or pilot error.
> ==========================================
> David Brubaker
> MVPA # 18115
> KCØNZN
> Owner - M151A2
> http://members.cox.net/~m151/
> Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit
> materiari?
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Wayne Harris" <papercu@hotmail.com>
> To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 6:33 PM
> Subject: [MV] Believe It or Not B-52
>
>
>> The first B-52 shot down was by a Air National Guard F-100 in 1961 a
>> short distance from Albuquerque, New Mexico. Anybody have more info on
>> this?? Wayne
>>
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