B 52 and Napalm ? New Question

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I remember in Iraq '91, a couple days before we rolled north into Iraq from Saudi Arabia we could see the flashes and here the thunder of the B-52’s up at the border getting it ready for our 8" SP guns to come rolling through. It was very impressive, several minutes of flashes then several minutes of thunder soon after.

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seasick wrote the following post 3 days ago:

The Hasegawa 1/72 scale aircraft weapons set #1 has 6 M117 750 pound bombs.

Thanks Seasick, I have ^ this on order. It looks like a great addition to the BUFF.

GMorrison. Yes I’m doing the SEA version. I’m waiting for the paint for it right now. I’m doing the camo over black. Would the black be a matte finish or gloss?

Thanks everyone and good luck with all your builds

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You’ll like the aircraft weapons set #1. There are also a good number of Mk82 500 pound bombs. I bought the set a while back and have used the bombs in it on several builds. I put four snakeye on my CF-104, four M117 on my F-100C. Nice to be able to alter a payload to fit your mood.

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New Question. Would the 52’s use different bombs under the wing? I still don’t have enough 117 bombs to fill up the under wing racks. There were only 6 in the weapons set.

Thanks

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The bombs on the wing racks would all be of the same type. There would be no mixing of Mk.82s and M-117s. All of one type or the other. Each had different ballistic properties (at least according to Jack Broughton’s book “Thud Ridge”) and that would throw off the computers by mixing them.

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And there would be the grave possibility that they would start running into each other.

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Thanks guys [bnghead] [:(((]

Hmm, Are the bombs in the Big Bad Beautiful kit MK 117s? They look almost the same as the MK 117s in the Hasagawa weapon kit? Would that because of the different manufacturer?

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The B-52 kit comes with M-117 (not Mk.117) 750 lb bombs, same as in the Hasegawa weapons set. These are essentially a WWII/Korean War era bomb with a more aerodynamic conical tail in place of the WWII style box fins

B-52’s also carried the Mk.82 (part of the Mk.80 series) 500 lb Low Drag bombs which were far more “aerodynamic” and caused less drag when carried externally for the carrying aircraft

The Hasegawa weapons set should include this type as well.

Just curious, but have you tried contacting Revell to see if you can get a replacement set of the kit bombs?

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Stik

No, My thunking went to “It’s been out of production since god knows when” then I didn’t even think to ask Revell. LOL

Hasagawa is calling them MK 117s

Thanks I’ll do that, but I’m not holding my breath. I also need to find a windshield for it. It was broken when I got it. I did however find an AM windshield, Maybe I can find that website again.

asking now lol

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Glue the windshield together, sand it smooth and paint it black. There’s nothing to see inside- the flight deck is completely innaccurate.

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Ken,

You might be interested in this article from my morning paper:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/06/us/b-52s-us-air-force-bombers.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&region=CColumn&module=MostEmailed&version=Full&src=me&WT.nav=MostEmailed&_r=0

Mike

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My old friend Airman Jim, who was an electronics tech and worked on these at Barksdale, always said that set was wildly innacurrate. Seemed to really bother him. Didn’t matter much to me.

Nice article, Mike. I like that; rook on the chessboard.

One time I was flying up to Boise in a United 727. The captain came over the PA and said that passengers should look out and down on the right side, and folks over on the left stay put you’ll get your turn.

We crossed over a BUFF flying east-west, probably 3000 feet below us. Very very impressive.

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I was doing field work in 1993 out in New Mexico near Silver City. I was buzzed by a pair of F/A-18. Scared the stuffing out of me. I felt the ground vibrating and thought it was an earthquake and I caught the Hornet in my eyes just before the sound wave came through the air. I was bug eyed the rest of the day.

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A friend of mine was painting a radio tower in the '60’s between Mountain Home and Boise. They watched a B-52 taking off from Mountain Home AFB. They were looking down at it as it went by.

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One day we had a briefing from a guy From S.A.C.

He went over various things the B-52s were doing, some of the places they were hitting and a couple ways they did it. One thing he mentioned was that they normally bombed from about 40,000 feet. At that altitude the bombs would actually bury themselves before they went off and would churn up the land, destroying tunnels in the process. The enemy would normally not know the BUFFs were there until the ground went up.

Here’s a few shots I took on my first tour. They might help.