Boeing B-52 Stratofortress

I was happy about that one.

Question three asks us for a hairstyle reportedly inspired by the B-52, or not inspired by, but resembling the B-52, the aircraft, which would later inspire the name of the band, the B-52s.

So this is the beehive, and I didn't really consider any other possibilities.

It's a very distinctive, iconic look, and I didn't know all this backstory about it, but the idea of it being the hairstyle worn by the two women singers in the B-52s um you know that's that's hard for a gen x person to forget really um and so uh i figured this had to be the beehive

so my first thought was the bouffant um but then i i came back to it later and thought no i feel like the b-52s in particular it was beehive was what was what that in particular was called and therefore yeah Kate and blanking wore their hair up in a beehive specifically so maybe they were the same thing but I figured more precisely it was the beehive in this case because that's what the B-52s wore

And that was the correct answer.

The bouffant is also a poofy kind of hairstyle.

How? By providing coordinates to the airplanes.

I believe they were B-52 bombers participated in bombarding that area where the terrorists were.

And also he's saying that from the Red Sea, the sea between Saudi Arabia and Egypt.

36 missiles were launched by the U.S. Navy to attack the terrorist area, which helped a lot, and they were supposed to be 64.

Oh, I [laughs] I mean, it's so many parts of our politics today are, "But for the 9/11 attacks, we wouldn't..." dot, dot, dot, that it's almost impossible to untangle and unwind.

And I think, again, you know, with the benefit of 25 years of hindsight, if I had a theme that I was gonna use to sort of describe why everything seemed to go south in a relatively short span of time between the unity of 9/11, the Congress singing on the steps of the Capitol, the 90% Bush approval rating, something I never thought I'd ever see in my life, images of, like, good liberals from Manhattan cheering B52 strikes in Afghanistan.

Like, these things happened.

It sounds weird to say that, but literally you would see gatherings of people in New York City looking at the TV footage of the airstrikes outside of Kabul and other places in Afghanistan, and they were cheering like it was a football game.

It's not the same business.

B-52 bomber.

It's not the same U.S. Marine Corps battalion.

It's not the same U.S. nuclear-powered submarine.

base.

So this is the important thing.

michael this is the important thing because no matter how mr miles may refer to these u.s facilities the chinese don't care if it looks like a base walks like a base talks like a base smells like a base for the chinese it is a base so if a u.s Air Force B-52 is launching from a facility in Australia and is dropping bombs or launching missiles against Chinese targets.

The Chinese don't care how Mr.

And effectively, the regime was toppled within about a month, and the culmination of the most drastic fighting ended by March with the end of Operation Anaconda.

December 5th, 2001, Master Sergeant Jefferson Donald Davis, Sergeant First Class Daniel Pitahorny, and Staff Sergeant Brian Cody Processor killed by the U.S. B-52 friendly firebombing near Kandahar.

3rd Battalion, 5th Special Forces Group.

January 4th, 2002, Sergeant First Class Nathan Ross Chapman killed by enemy small arms fire near coast.

The Soviet Union has nuclear weapons and bombers capable of reaching the American continent, and the United States Air Force is trying to stay ahead of a threat that keeps changing shape.

they have the B-52 Stratofortress, which is a magnificent aircraft.

But even as the first B-52s are rolling off the line in Seattle, Strategic Air Command is already thinking past it, because here is the problem with the B-52, it flies at around 500 miles an hour.

Soviet radar can track it for hours before it arrives.

We can't prove that all of these measures but I think to a very large measure they did.

And I think too much dwelling on that part of it tends to underemphasize the extent to which one of the most impressive things about the post 9-11 period was the resilience with which the American people fought back on the United Airlines jet, and in many other situations, the courage of these special forces operators who went to Afghanistan and were calling in airstrikes from B-52 bombers within 100 or 200 yards of them, it's called danger close.

They did it unprepared.

They did it improvised way.

Two miles ahead was launching Base One, throwing long, sharp shadows at him in the rosy dawn light.

A cluster of squat, gray blockhouses, a long runway tapering into the distance with an Air Force B-52 motionless at the near end, that was all.

Except the ship.

The ship towered high, dominating the desert like a pinnacle of bright silver.

A crew chief came up and touched Johnny's shoulder.

Colonel Youngbear, he said, observation is going up.

Johnny stood and looked out the tiny window at the red-painted B-52.

See you tonight, Mitch.