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Posted: Jun 28, 2004 - 08:48 PM
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| elp, what is that white shape on top of the fuselage, just forward of the red anti-collision beacon and above the wing pivot? |
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Posted: Jun 28, 2004 - 09:03 PM
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Gee, that wouldn't turn me on. They are blue!
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Posted: Jun 28, 2004 - 09:25 PM
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habu2 wrote:
what is that white shape on top of the fuselage, just forward of the red anti-collision beacon and above the wing pivot?
 SATCOM antenna radome? |
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Posted: Jun 28, 2004 - 09:58 PM
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kmceject wrote:
Gee, that wouldn't turn me on. They are blue!
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(got a vid of a drop like that with non-blue ones... <grin>)
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Posted: Jun 28, 2004 - 11:05 PM
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Pumpkin wrote:
habu2 wrote:
what is that white shape on top of the fuselage, just forward of the red anti-collision beacon and above the wing pivot?
SATCOM antenna radome?
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Posted: Jun 28, 2004 - 11:11 PM
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yup, affirmative habu2. We were speaking of the same item.
Sorry, just my wild guess  . Can't think of anything else that is mounted on the top fuselage. Then again, it is a ED bird. Expect the least expected, I guess. |
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Posted: Jul 04, 2004 - 05:32 AM
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| Yes, that antenna is only present on a test bird. I've never seen a SAC or ACC BONE with that antenna. I have seen it on one from Edwards. They do weird stuff there man. |
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Posted: Jul 07, 2004 - 10:22 AM
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TC wrote:
Yes, that antenna is only present on a test bird. I've never seen a SAC or ACC BONE with that antenna. I have seen it on one from Edwards. They do weird stuff there man.
Well we don't have little green men here, although the way things are going well have alot of blue ones. |
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Posted: Jul 08, 2004 - 04:02 AM
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| I was told that the white antenna designated bombers that were NOT capable (or assigned the mission) of dropping nukes. Was a START or SALT or some treaty that specified the max number of nuke bombers we would have. The big white antenna made it visible from satellite for counting. |
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Posted: Jul 30, 2004 - 08:24 PM
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Thanks alot "Jimmy Carter". Now every rogue state with a bird over the country can count how many nuclear capable bombers we have  |
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Posted: Sep 07, 2004 - 10:15 AM
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Roscoe wrote:
I was told that the white antenna designated bombers that were NOT capable (or assigned the mission) of dropping nukes. Was a START or SALT or some treaty that specified the max number of nuke bombers we would have. The big white antenna made it visible from satellite for counting.
Well then every Bone shold have it, yesnot? |
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Posted: Sep 08, 2004 - 01:22 AM
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Ummm, for years, all the Bones could do was the Nuke mission...nobody considered conventional bombs until after it was fielded, and it turned out that there were serious technical issues to be resolved before the Bone could could carry conventional weapons.
Thus, every Bone carried the antenna and may still do. Anybody have a recent photo? |
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Posted: Sep 08, 2004 - 01:28 AM
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Thinking about it some more, I think maybe the white blade marker indicated those birds that WERE NOT designated nuke carriers. Which makes a lot more sense given that an Eddies bird would have such a marker...
As for the comment by Raven11, that's what treaties are for. To limit ones capabilities, and unfortunately, that requires verification by either inspectors (Russions on a Nuke base?) or some identfying mark. |
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