On Sun, 24 Oct 2010 23:00:55 -0700, Gunner Asch
wrote:

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I was very very surprised by how SMALL the bomb bay was. One couldnt
get very much in there

Gunner

When I was at NMU in Marquette there was a girl in my dorm whose
boyfriend was the gunner on a B-52 stationed at K.I. Sawyer AFB. She
arranged for us to go on a base tour. We got to crawl all over an
operational B-52 including sitting in all the cockpit positions. And
we got a look into the open bomb bay. It was about as big as a box car
in there. Lots of room for all the DuPont explosives.

You see those pictures of B-52's on ARC Light missions over VN
unleashing huge strings of bombs.....and then pictures of cratered
rice paddies.

Now, with PGM's (precision guided munitions), less room for the bombs
is required....because they hardly ever miss what they are aiming at.
Dave