I loved flying on the G-II. I wonder if there are any charter operators that operate them and market unused seats for dead head legs. Covid changed a lot and there are much fewer dead head legs.

We get a call pretty much every time we do transition somewhere where they aren't use to seeing BUFFs.. or places in the know just relay to us the concerned civilians are reporting a plane on fire trailing smoke. I am hoping we start getting our new engines soon. I'd like to get at least one sortie in a B-52 with new engines.

You ain't seen smoke until you see 10 KC-97L's parked nose to tail in 2 rows start on a time hack at sunrise for and ORI with calm winds.

NAS Dallas would literally go IFR for a brief time.

I remember about 30 yrs ago, a bunch of Buffs were at Biggs Field for a "Roving Sands" exercise in WSMR. One night they all came back in around One in the morning, and decided it would be fun to do overheads. Right over all the ARMY base housing. I was on a mid-shift, and telephones to the Tower, Police and Airport lit up like Christmas tree lights.

They got invited to go to Roswell the next year.

We all know that the best Army base housing is worse than the worst Air Force base housing! I remember the barracks at Fort Knox and the DORMS at KI Sawyer AFB. Going from a 50 bay barracks with double racks to a 2 person dorm room, like a hotel, was amazing! Also, the Air Force had real silverware and plates.

So what if we had a little BUFF noise from time to time. It was nothing like B-1 full afterburner takeoffs!

Had a similar thing happen last year when we went into Pontiac, MI in the C-130. Someone called the tower and said a big, white plane just flew over their house and it looked like it was on fire because of all the smoke. Tower calls the FBO and they get me on the phone. I told the tower that if we weren't smoking, things were not going well, lol.

I remember 8th Grade health class. We’d watch 16mm movies that showed jets belching all of that black smoke and tsk-tsk-ing that that smoke was causing Global Cooling and hastening a New Ice Age.

I've mentioned the elementary school teaching that we were entering a New Ice Age.....and that statement is met with disbelief, because, well......"Global Warming"




(I'm glad someone besides me remembers that!)

I remember they were talking about dumping coal dust on the glaciers so the earth would absorb more heat and to control glacerization.

Here are old articles on the new ice age.

https://realclimatescience.com/1970s-gl ... ing-scare/

I remember Kimberly’s hair turning green due to acid rain also back in the 80’s (Diff’rent Strokes).