Warbird Information Exchange

this thread only scratches the surface to u.s. black ops.

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tom d. friedman - hey!!! those fokkers were messerschmitts!! * without ammunition, the usaf would be just another flying club!!! * better to have piece of mind than piece of tail!!

You know reviewing this thread I recall a conversation with a now deceased gentleman who told me he once saw either a Tu 16 Badger or Tu 95 Bear (I can't remember which.) in a hangar on a US base. He was working for a government contractor at the time and was a long time pilot and enthusiast and would have recognized such a distinctive design.

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"I can't understand it, I cut it twice and it's still too short!" Robert F. Dupre' 1923-2010 Go With God.

Quite a few "Client States" had Tu-16's. It isn't a huge surprise that one of them escaped from behind the iron curtain. I'm not sure what a B-47 equivalent airframe would have told us. I bet we were a lot more interested in the electronics.

And/or mis-identification of aTu-114 airliner.

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Lest Hero-worship raise it's head and cloud our vision, remember that World War II was fought and won by the same sort of twenty-something punks we wouldn't let our daughters date.