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NosmoKing posted:I'm pretty tingly in the pants on how they took the aircrew for bombers from 10+ in the WW II and just post wwII bombers to just 2 for the B-2. 
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That's like something out of a loving Pantera song
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Dec 18, 2010 17:40
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Someone needs to come with me on this tour: http://www.titanmissilemuseum.org/view.php?pg=10 I can convince my fiance to do the one hour tour, but four and a half hours of climbing around a missile complex is beyond her interest level.
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Jan 29, 2011 04:25
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I touched a Titan 2 missile today  The rocket fuel handler clothing outfits were loving nuts  Not my picture.
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Feb 10, 2011 07:47
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McNally posted:My dad was a fuel handler on Titan IIs. The suits had positive pressure so fumes couldn't get in if it tore. He told me about a phenomenon called a BFRC, or Big loving Red Cloud, which occurred when fuel ignited. I tried Googling it for more information, but all I really got was that BFRC stood for Big loving Red Cloud and that if you saw a BFRC, run upwind of it as fast as you could. I think dad told me that a BFRC could melt your lungs, but I'm not sure how much of that was hyperbole, how much was what 18 and 19 year old fuel handlers told each other, and how much was fact. In any event, I don't imagine it was very healthy to breathe. It probably could. The oxidizer was apparently a substance that was extremely reactive with water, producing both heat and nitric acid, so getting that in your lungs would be a very bad thing.
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Feb 10, 2011 08:19
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Our tour guide at the Titan museum said that his guess on probably the best way to take out an ICBM would be to have a few people just shooting rifles at it during initial liftoff as quickly and accurately as they could to puncture holes in the skin and vent fuel/oxidier, either causing a catastrophic failure, or enough of a leak so that it didn't fly right. Any opinions on that?
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Feb 10, 2011 17:51
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I forgot to share: I was driving home a couple days ago and saw a B1 fly by on approach to Davis Monthan 
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