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From: leem@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Lee Mellinger)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: B2 vs. F117A
Message-ID: <1991Feb27.020202.20208@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 27 Feb 91 02:02:02 GMT
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From: leem@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Lee Mellinger)
In article <1991Feb26.011655.5357@cbnews.att.com> shafer@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov (Mary Shafer) writes:
:
:I wrote:
:
:I should have written something like:
:What can F-111s do that B-52s can't?  (Hint: terrain following)
:Mary Shafer  shafer@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov  ames!skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov!shafer

In the 200+ hours I spent aboard B-52's, more than a third was spent
at altitudes of 500' or less AGL.  A disproportionate amount of the
time I spent fixing systems on the BUFF (we never called it that then,
only the "aluminum overcast") was on the TERRAIN CLEARANCE radar and
TERRAIN CLEARANCE  computers.  I will admit that in the current
definitions, terrain following is even lower, less than 200' AGL, but
the impression left was that the B-52 does not fly low level missions.
I spent many hours staring UP at the mountain and hill tops from the
inside of a flying B-52.

Lee

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