Posted on 02/19/2015 8:02:37 AM PST by C19fan
The Air Force is working to get a B-52 bomber back into service after it sat collecting dust for seven years at the famous Boneyard at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona.
On Feb. 13, the B-52H—with the serial number 61–0007—left the desert for its new home with the 2nd Bomb Wing at Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana. This is the first time the Air Force has “regenerated” one of these bombers from the Boneyard back to active duty.
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“Hell, we could have a good weekend in Houston with all this stuff!”
It was Dallas, then Kennedy was shot in Dallas and they had Slim Pickens re-do the line and say Vegas... if you look closely you can tell he mouths the name Dallas.
Back when Men thought water could burn ...
Having to show photo ID? That’s racist!
That would be a blast to wander through (I’d bring my own lunch ;’)
I don’t know about that. But you can go to the one in Mojave. It’s not military.
Britain Says It Sent Warplanes to Intercept Russian Bombers Off Cornwall
By ALAN COWELL FEB. 19, 2015
It was so beautiful and practical, that the Ruskies created their own version. I love this plane almost as much as the SR-71.
The EPA insists that I recycle my aluminum beer cans so they don't take up space on the ground.....a junk airplane takes up a huge amount of valuable farmland wherever that base is....
What have they done since "Love Shack."
IIRC, the B-52s were being chopped as part of an arms limitation treaty with the Soviets, and they monitored the process with their satellites. Looks like the chopped airframes were permanently left in place as a condition of the treaty.
Wonder how many Tu-95s got chopped by the Russkies? They’ve been building brand new Bear bombers so it hardly matters.
Hell of an airframe that can last through 3 generations of the same families flying them.
Yes. IIRC, there were four cuts made. Each wing at the fuselage, one aft of the cockpit in front of the wings, and one in front of the tail. The wing tips were then moved in toward the fuselage with a bulldozer so that the Soviet satellites could quickly verify that they were looking at demilitarized aircraft vs. intact aircraft. I think it was the SALT II treaty that called for this destruction.
As a side note, when I was there from 1991-1994, they had an (I think) Apache helicopter there that was slated to go to the Shah of Iran. Delivery was set for just after the revolution, and subsequently never took place. It's been sitting at the Boneyard since the 70s.
LOL :)
The Shah’s helicopter was probably an AH-1 Cobra.
I first saw a prototype Apache in Germany in 1982 & we got Blackhawks the following year. But we had improved AH-1s (flat glass canopy) while I was there.
Then there was Saddam’s Mi-24 with the golden eagle paint scheme.
G/H has 8 engines too. See post #48. I think they’re talking about re-engining the H models to 4 engines.
Same as the RNC, my friend...
Thats one of the big things AMARG does: spares reclaimation for use in active aircraft.
Thats why there are A-10s and B-1s there, for instance. Many of them are extraneous to operational requirements and are being picked clean/cannibalized to keep the operational fleet flying.
Others are kept in regenerable storage. Like the B-52 from this article. It means they aren’t picked clean (at least as much as other aircraft) so they can be put back into service if needed. As attrition replacements, for instance.
This BUFF was only there for seven years. Not to long ago they regenerated a NASA WB-57 (big wing high altitude version of the Canberra) that had been in mothballs since the 1970s. There are also old Grumman S-2 Trackers and C-1 Traders that are being pulled out after decades there for conversion to aerial tankers and carrier delivery planes for Brazil to operate off it’s ex-French carrier.
On a different board (aviation related) there was a discussion on the reengining that included some guy that were involved in the last proposal to do that (1980s, I think)
Apparantly there’s a big issue with engine out asymetric thrust that makes the eight engine configuration more desirable. The BUFF needs five engines to stay airborne, and can’t lose more than two engines on a side. Proceedure for losing two engines on one side is to shut down an engine on the other side as well to reduce stresses on the airframe.
I’m guessing that current day engine management software can compensate by varying the power of the remaining engines if one is lost. And that two-engine sustained flight is possible given the extra power available. But which engine goes out probably matters a lot too, with the loss of both inboards putting the aircraft and crew into a very, very bad situation.
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