Robin Hood - Page 2

Richard Flanders · 10-25-2011, 04:05 PM

Must have been tough to get those permits from your B-52 or fighter or whatever you flew! What all did you fly???

Bruce Day · 10-25-2011, 05:15 PM

I had diplomatic immunity.

I was mission qualified aircraft commander in the B-52F,D,G and H and the C-130A, B and E. Flew in a few other aircraft but was not msn qual. Of those the B-52H is still flying and a few C-130E's are left. I am also scheduled to be scrapped in the Arizona boneyard.

david ross · 10-25-2011, 05:21 PM

Hi Bruce.
Are your ancesters saxon lords run out of England by the normans arfter 1066 and then they
hide on the may flower and came over the sea to new England?.
And if the lords had purdeys-hollands ect' then the surfs had Parkers good so now i know
how i came to get mine.
All the best Dave.

Bruce Day · 10-25-2011, 05:39 PM

Mine came here from England in the 1600's, settled in Massachusetts colony and moved west as lands opened for settlement. Not a noble in the bunch, Day (from dairy) is an Anglo-Saxon occupational name like Farmer, Smith, Tinker, etc. Just trying for a better opportunity and life, like everybody else here, then and now. My ancesters were glad to get 160 acres of prairie land. Its a common story here, we are all from someplace else.

Bruce Day · 10-25-2011, 07:39 PM

Rich , if you are curious, this is what I did for many years. We carried four of these, each 10,000 lbs, 9 megatons. There were about 30 of us sitting alert at any one time and it was deadly serious business. Now these too are being dismantled. Probably for the better. As the commander , I personally crawled over and around each of these for acceptance.

Each of these had many more times the yield of the Hiroshima bomb.

Parkerman · 10-25-2011, 09:17 PM

Bruce
Enlighten me please, fusion or fission? I assume the former
Thank you

Linn

Richard Flanders · 10-25-2011, 09:59 PM

I think that's a B53 like the one they decommissioned in New Mexico today, which was the last of it's kind in our arsenal. There's a good article on it on Drudge. The stats are impressive - 600x the Hiroshima bomb. Thank you for flying cover and keeping us safe.

Bob Brown · 10-26-2011, 12:59 AM

Bruce, the Robin Hood reps may have shot Parkers, but I don't think that trigger guard was connected to them. It was on a 0 frame GH16 that I bought out of Ontario, Canada. I had it for awhile before realized the serial number on the trigger guard matched the number on a skeleton steel buttplate that I was given a year or two earlier in Manitoba. I got a letter on the number and it was off a BH 12 that was made for a professional shooter named William M. Ferguson from Grand Forks, ND, who shot under the name Robin Hood. Bill Murphy was kind enough to share that information. Ferguson ordered it from W.G. Neilands and Company in Winnipeg and had it shipped directly to North Dakota. The butt plate came from a Winnipeg gunsmith that shut down in the mid 30's if I recall correctly. I would have liked to have seen that BH. Shipped in 1897 it lettered with the engraving, 30" Titanic barrels, Lyman sight, and a Monte Carlo stock.