Very cool indeed.
When I was in the service I was a Crew Chief on a Kc-135A,so when I went to this airshow (Manchester N.H.) I was wearing my 5th O.M.S. hat.The Nine-o-nine's Crew Chief saw my hat while I was walking by and asked for a little help.Turns out he had been a crew chief on a B-52 H. If we had been stationed at the same base we would have been in the same squadron. Anyways,I helped him take off the cowling on his # 3 engine. He was having trouble with one of the spark plugs fowling up.Turns out the mixture control was a little loose,so when he leaned it out ,it wasn't opening all the way,so the plug was fowling up. What I came away with is the old saying "The more things change,the more they stay the same." Many of the same type of parts on my aircraft are virtually identical to the parts used back then. The walk around oxygen bottles where identical to the bottles on my aircraft,built in 1958. Zinc chromate is still used as a primer, some of the cowling fasteners where almost exactly the same as used on my aircraft ,the circuit breakers where identical, hydraulic lines and wires are color coded and identified by the same system. Black boxes look about the same, and the read putty like sealing material around the windows is the same thing. He would have taken me up,but the next flight after a fly by,They where going home, so I couldn't go up.what a blast,there's nothing like hearing those old radial engines starting up.
