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The YB-52 prototype, the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress, takes its first flight on April 15, 1952.
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Posted on 04/15/2019 4:41:02 PM PDT by llevrok
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and still flying!
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posted on
04/15/2019 4:41:02 PM PDT
by
llevrok
To: llevrok
Nice.
I wonder how it feels to be the pilot (or crew) of an aircraft that was flying before their parents were born?
To: llevrok
Yup, with Major T. J. "King" Kong at the helm.
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posted on
04/15/2019 4:47:33 PM PDT
by
Jim W N
(MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
To: llevrok
I feel sure most of them will still be flying in 25 years from now.
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posted on
04/15/2019 4:47:48 PM PDT
by
gaijin
To: llevrok
My Great-grandfather was born in 1868, at the height of the Indian wars. Bison still covered the plains, cattle drives were just starting North out of Texas.
He lived long enough to see the B-52 go into service.
To: llevrok
The BUFF is as old as me.
5.56mm
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posted on
04/15/2019 4:53:50 PM PDT
by
M Kehoe
(DRAIN THE SWAMP! BUILD THE WALL!)
To: llevrok
The kid that lived next door just graduated USAF Flight School. Got assigned to the Buff. Pretty cool. He has wanted to be a pilot since he was 13, at least.
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posted on
04/15/2019 4:54:13 PM PDT
by
Tallguy
(Facts be d*mned! The narrative of the day must be preserved!)
To: llevrok
Somebody probably said that day: “It’ll never last. Obsolete within a year. No one will remember the B-52 a couple of years from today.”
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posted on
04/15/2019 4:59:28 PM PDT
by
frank ballenger
(End vote fraud,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we're finishid.)
To: llevrok
My late brother flew on those. He loved flying and joined the USAF when he was 15. He and his crew were exposed to so much radiation that he was on 20 different meds when he died in 2006. He was a Korean War vet. I miss him.
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posted on
04/15/2019 5:02:51 PM PDT
by
MamaB
(Heb :13:2)
To: M Kehoe
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posted on
04/15/2019 5:08:18 PM PDT
by
Catmom
(We're all gonna get the punishment only some of us deserve.r)
To: gaijin
If they’re still flying in 33 years,then they will have been in service for 100 years.
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posted on
04/15/2019 5:10:02 PM PDT
by
Farmer Dean
(168 grains of instant conflict resolution)
To: llevrok
But, can it fly on just seven engines if one goes out?
To: Larry Lucido
I believe it can stay in the air with only 4 of the 8 running.
CC
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posted on
04/15/2019 5:23:52 PM PDT
by
Celtic Conservative
(My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV)
To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
Impressive. He might have been aware of Custers demise at the Little Big Horn in 1876. What history making times.
To: gaijin
Im fairly certain that the grandmother of the last B-52 pilot has yet to be born.
The original Wright flyer from Kitty Hawk would have still been flying in 1971 if it had the same longevity as the B-52.
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posted on
04/15/2019 5:27:27 PM PDT
by
Natty Bumppo@frontier.net
(We are the dangerous ones, who stand between all we love and a more dangerous world.)
To: SnuffaBolshevik
Grandparents, not just parents anymore.
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posted on
04/15/2019 5:27:45 PM PDT
by
PittsburghAfterDark
(The American media: We do what the Soviet media did without the guns to our head.)
To: llevrok
I remember those early B-52s.
They had a high tail fin and twin machine guns in the tail.
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posted on
04/15/2019 5:28:02 PM PDT
by
yarddog
To: Jim 0216
When Johnny comes marching home again HOORAW.The best cockpit scenes eva.
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posted on
04/15/2019 5:29:49 PM PDT
by
HANG THE EXPENSE
(Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
To: SnuffaBolshevik
If it aint BOEING I AINT going.
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posted on
04/15/2019 5:30:54 PM PDT
by
HANG THE EXPENSE
(Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
To: llevrok
They kept the prototype for years at Wright Paterson at the air force museum(the old one).they moved and had to cut it up.Cant save them all which is a shame.
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posted on
04/15/2019 5:33:12 PM PDT
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HANG THE EXPENSE
(Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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