B-52 Recreation of the Rex Liner Intercept

GZR_Sactargets · Post by **GZR_Sactargets** » 03 Sep 2007, 04:05

Barksdale Airmen Recreate History
The 2nd Bomb Wing, 53rd Wing, U.S. Air Force Weapons School and the 917th Wing came together for the first time to fly a maritime intercept mission. The original mission was flown by three B-17s from the 2nd Bombardment Group, based at...more
Click here to watch video (2 min)

mms://132.60.10.52/Historic

Keith Jones · Post by **Keith Jones** » 03 Sep 2007, 12:20

Sorry, GZR_S, but that link appears to be invalid.

GZR_Sactargets · Post by **GZR_Sactargets** » 03 Sep 2007, 17:21

Maybe this will work. It is the whole daily report. The Buff flight is about the 4th from the top. Sorry about the 'weak link'

http://dailyreport.afa.org/AFA/Reports/ ... h08/Day28/

StingingCanine · Post by **StingingCanine** » 04 Sep 2007, 01:36

ell that solves the mystery of the REX callsign. I know some milcom guys got hits on that one last week. They knew it was probably a B-52 but the REX callsign was unusual.