How to Fly With a Nuclear Weapon

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The saying was you know a lot of happens if you have a nuclear weapon on your aircraft and you eject or you wouldn't would you never fly with a nuke alive nuke? No, they would never I don't Uh the tactical air command the strategic air command beef 52 chrome domes. They did fly with uh With fully armed nukes ready to go and I think they quit that after they dropped a couple of men inadvertently when Anyway, that was an embarrassing thingUh during my time we never flew with them we flew with the dummies that we'd go out and drop them on the rangeuh You know to see the accuracy But if you're dropping a really powerful bomb

Retired United States Air Force officer and fighter pilot, test pilot, and record-breaking aviator who in 1986 piloted the Voyager aircraft on the first non-stop, non-refueled around-the-world flight with co-pilot Jeana Yeager. He was born in Loma Linda, California, where he gained an interest in flying at a young age. He is the older brother of famed aerospace designer Burt Rutan, whose many earlier original designs Dick piloted on class record-breaking flights, including Voyager.

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