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I’ll Be Damned, These Boneyard B-52s Can Still Fly
War is Boring ^ | February 18, 2015 | Joseph Trevithick

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at medium.com ...


TOPICS: History; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: aerospace; air; aviation; b52; buff; warisboring
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1 posted on 02/19/2015 8:02:37 AM PST by C19fan
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The B-52 is like Cockroaches ,they’ll be around Forever ,LOL


2 posted on 02/19/2015 8:04:44 AM PST by molson209 (Blank)
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Just to give you an idea of WHERE this came from ..

The Boneyard at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona.


3 posted on 02/19/2015 8:06:47 AM PST by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but, they're true)
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To: molson209

We need to compete with Ivan to see which Cold War era bomber lasts the longest the BUFF v. Bear.


4 posted on 02/19/2015 8:08:19 AM PST by C19fan
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5 posted on 02/19/2015 8:08:24 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (If obama speaks and there is no one there to hear it, is it still a lie?)
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The B-52H’s are still around because they’ve been rebuilt so much the crews that flew the original B-52H’s built in 1960-1962 would not recognize the inside of the planes now on the flight line. And even less so if the proposal to re-engine the B-52H planes with four General Electric F103 (the military version of the CF6-80) jet engines become reality.


6 posted on 02/19/2015 8:08:31 AM PST by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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To: knarf

Upper middle I see a bunch of A-10’s.


7 posted on 02/19/2015 8:08:34 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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8 posted on 02/19/2015 8:08:47 AM PST by EveningStar
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The only bad part of a re-engine is no more black smoke coming from those B-52s at takeoff. :0


9 posted on 02/19/2015 8:09:58 AM PST by C19fan
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The B-52 is a large, heavy plane. I’m always amazed to see them lumbering up there in the sky. It is still an impressive sight.


10 posted on 02/19/2015 8:11:46 AM PST by SamAdams76
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After setting for so many years, I bet the ground crew has a major time fixing cracks in the skin.
We found that after a B-52 would set on Alert for several months, then be flown, and new cracks would be everywhere.


11 posted on 02/19/2015 8:12:08 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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I’d like to see a few hundred B-52’s fly over Raqqa, and flatten it into rubble like Dresden.


12 posted on 02/19/2015 8:15:11 AM PST by baltimorepoet
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From the end of the runway, they look like a large moth with their wings nearly touching the ground. Landing gear on the wing tip keep the wing barely off the ground.
As It moves forward and gains speed, the wings rise, then the body rises. A magnificent sight!


13 posted on 02/19/2015 8:15:32 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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I still remember when the wind patterns would shift in the winter at Castle AFB and there would be an alert and whole strings of B52’s would take off right over our house in Merced. It still can give me chills. Impressive plane.


14 posted on 02/19/2015 8:23:16 AM PST by bubbacluck (America 180)
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a great supporter of the B52's effectiveness


15 posted on 02/19/2015 8:24:51 AM PST by llevrok (I fear the US government more than I do al Qaeda)
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To: RayChuang88

Heck, I flew them at Minot a decade later. This was about the that some serious upgrades and modifications began. I don’t recognize most of the stuff at the Nav and RN stations.

The AF, in its infinite wisdom, passed up on some serious electronic, structural, and power plan changes in the mid 1970’s because by the end of that decade the BUFFs would be totally replaced by the B-1s. R I G H T !!!


16 posted on 02/19/2015 8:25:45 AM PST by Nip (BOHEICA and TANSTAAFL - both seem very appropriate today.)
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To: C19fan

Can you get into the Boneyard with a military ID? Can the public get in?


17 posted on 02/19/2015 8:26:12 AM PST by thefactor (yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt)
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To: knarf
Way back in the early '90s, I was stationed there, and volunteered to give tours through the Boneyard. It was a closed area, just because you were stationed there, you couldn't simply walk into it.

They had some really cool stuff there.

I actually witnessed the guillotine chopping a wing off on one of the tours. It was sad. All that money to build them, and they were chopping them up. Not only that, but even historically significant B-52s (NASA related, or otherwise) were being chopped.

I think the tours are run out of the Pima Air Museum now (at least they were in March of 2003, when I last visited).

18 posted on 02/19/2015 8:29:25 AM PST by IYAS9YAS (Has anyone seen my tagline? It was here yesterday. I seem to have misplaced it.)
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To: knarf
Just to give you an idea of WHERE this came from .. The Boneyard at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona.

Wow - I had no idea the Boneyard was so big!

19 posted on 02/19/2015 8:30:21 AM PST by Alex Murphy ("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
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Just saw that they offer tours to the public. Can’t get off the tour bus but it would still be pretty cool.


20 posted on 02/19/2015 8:31:01 AM PST by thefactor (yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt)
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