B-52 anniversary

[dsawan 624]

First flight of the B-52 this day!

Edited April 15, 2012 by dsawan

[B52STRATO 215]

It's almost the age of retirement but the good old BUFF is still not ready to let us alone !

[+Brain32 265]

60 years of flight, damn!

 

They sure knew how to build stuff back then...

[Nesher 628]

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[JediMaster 451]

How bizarre that the B-52's first flight was the 40th anniversary of the Titanic's loss.

[+ST0RM 145]

Happy Birthday to the BUFFasaurus

[Lexx_Luthor 57]

B-52 was the plane, and KC-135, that brought Strategic Air Command back home, well for the most part, inside national borders.

 

A long and unique read on the role of SAC overseas basing until the B-52 and KC-135, massive PDF file, 280 pages...

 

~> Strategic Frontier: American Bomber Bases Overseas, 1950 - 1960, by Kurt Wayne Schake