Posted on 06/23/2026 11:50:39 AM PDT by Leaning Right
On this day in 1962, the final Boeing B-52 Stratofortress ever produced rolled out of Boeing’s Wichita factory, marking the end of a historic production era. More than six decades later, that same aircraft continues to serve with the United States Air Force.
The aircraft, a B-52H with serial number 61-0040, was the 744th and final B-52 built and left the production line on June 22, 1962. Today, it remains operational with the 23rd Bomb Squadron of the 5th Bomb Wing at Minot Air Force Base.
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I remember reading about a grandfather, father, and grandson all flying B52s.
Nevertheless, it’s nice to remember a time when America deliberately built things to last.
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AS opposed to the rolling computers now called cars.
Main reason is because if we ever get in a real war, not against bunch of primitives in the desert, but against China or Russia or whatever country with some technology and money emerges in the 21st century, they are not only useless, but provide a false sense of confidence that we have strategic bombers.
We only have 19 B-2s, and 45 B-1s (which are also cool but obsolete).
You da men!
B-52 (52-0013) is at the Atomic Museum in Albuquerque, it was used extensively for nuclear testing in the Pacific, being the first 52 to drop a thermonuclear weapon. It was cosmetically restored recently very accurately.
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