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Doc67 wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 8:55 am
hanno wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 7:06 am
cambo swa wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 6:02 am
hanno wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 4:44 am
cambo swa wrote: Sat Dec 04, 2021 11:51 pm

B-52s are aluminum so it is definitely not rust. The location is an air force base in the desert near Tuscon, Arizona so the brown is probably sand. The dark grey color is paint so maybe the lighter ones are de-painted or un-painter aluminum? They are stored there in the desert just to prevent rust of the non-aluminum components. Bus tours of the site are available (maybe not now with Covid).
Aluminum does not rust, but it corrodes. A piece of corroded aluminum:

Mr. Hanno, there are different grades of aluminum and the aluminum on B52s does not corrode ever. Maybe it does on German aircraft.
Apart from an uncalled for cheap shot, you are just plane wrong. Why would they build a corrosion control hangar:

Oh Mr Hanno, please tell me that was an intentional pun. If so, full marks! :D
Not all Germans are devoid of any sense of humour :lol:
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F-4 Phantom, a very sexy a/c.

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First fighter jet ever made in Asia: HF-24 Marut by India

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Is that the latest version of the brace position for aircrew?
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Dum Dum Airport, Calcutta, 1952. Air hostess being transported from the plane to the terminal. Photo - BOAC Archives.

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Brody wrote: Fri Dec 10, 2021 5:02 am Image
I seem to remember hearing or reading that the after the roll-out of the final turn, aircrafts were below normal 'decision height' (maybe 500ft?) where the approach must be stabilised and within certain parameters. Basically, normal rules didn't (or couldn't) apply to this approach.

Is that correct?
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