Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1

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I remember a few years ago a tail gunner in a B-52 lost Comms with the pilots , or anyone in the cabin … he literally thought they were going to crash. He punched out …..thing was , nothing wrong with the plane 🙈

First heard that story decades ago. Gunners we're moved out of the tail with the G models and eliminated altogether after the USSR fell. The last guy to serve as a tail gunner retired around 2016-2017.

I think my dates are...close.
 
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I remember a few years ago a tail gunner in a B-52 lost Comms with the pilots , or anyone in the cabin … he literally thought they were going to crash. He punched out …..thing was , nothing wrong with the plane 🙈
Had to be a REALLY long time ago. They haven't had tail gunners in a very long time. By 1992 the last of the 52 G and H's had removed all guns.
 
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Guess Ford doesn't use that program when they designed the 5.4 Triton starter. 3rd bolt is on top and BARELY accessible with the magic combination of sockets & extensions.

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Edit: I should also mention you need the hands of a 8 month old child to get up in there and had that bolt not broken loose as easily as it did, I doubt I'd have been able to get it out.
I've got a back hoe that's been down a year because I can't get to a couple of frozen bolts on the starter.