From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Nov 4 13:17:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F88437B401 for ; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 13:17:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from conure.mail.pas.earthlink.net (conure.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.54]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 135C943E3B for ; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 13:17:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0242.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.192.242] helo=mindspring.com) by conure.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 188obU-0000fv-00; Mon, 04 Nov 2002 13:17:48 -0800 Message-ID: <3DC6E3A9.AC495ED1@mindspring.com> Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2002 13:16:25 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ollivier Robert Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: -current marcketting name? References: <3DC6DB51.C0C18AEF@mindspring.com> <20021104211115.GA40027@tara.freenix.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Ollivier Robert wrote: > According to John Baldwin: > > B-29 or some such maybe. The first B-52's were built in the 50's. > > AFAIK the US didn't have jet-powered bombers during WWII. I think > > the first jet-powered fighters were used in the Korean War to > > counter Mig's. (Putting on my history-channel watching hat.) > > Even B-29 were not that much used during WWII, most of the big US bombers > were B-17 (Flying Fortress). The Enola Gay was a B-29. The original posting was a joke, anyway. Ugh. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message