Posted on 12/27/2017 6:31:47 AM PST by C19fan
America’s fleet of B-52H Stratofortress nuclear bombers are on track to outlast their engines, and the planes need new ones to remain viable past 2030. The U.S. Air Force, which received its first B-52H during the Kennedy administration, wants to replace existing engines with cheaper, more power ones to keep the lumbering jets flying into all the way into the 2040s.
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A very Big Bang for the tax buck!
Gotta hand it to Boeing. They really do know how to build quality into their aircraft.
“B-52H Stratofortress nuclear bombers”
Did not know these airplanes were nuclear powered.../s/
B-52 ping.
So who's stopping them?
Right. An airshow with our a B52 walk around and the noisy filthy take off isn’t the same.
Yes, apparently they’ve already gotten new engines...
;-)
Engineers trained under academic rigor. Now we’re told high standards are white male privilege and needs to be discouraged.
It's been like pulling teeth to keep the A-10s on the line!
New engines and new electronics....................
My son is a ME. Thank God and Texas Tech that he had some great instructors!
My Great-grandfather was born in 1868 when you could get scalped on the plains. The Santa Fe Trail was closed due to Indian raids, Custer was fighting Indians in Oklahoma, the first cattle drives were starting toward Kansas, bison covered the plains, the transcontinental Railroad was still being built, Billy the Kid was still just a kid.
He lived long enough to see the first B-52A bomber go into service.
I worked on the B-52 bombers in the USAF, and later the KC-135.
Old Dog!
(Dale Browns, Flight of the Old Dog)
Several novels of the modernized B52 essentially turning it into an aerial battleship.
I was in formation at a change of command at VAFB when a B-52 overflew the ceremony low and slow. Just about everyone in formation looked up to see it. Many hats ended up on the ground. I’m not sure the commanding general appreciated the break in formation to retrieve hats. But, it was humorous.
I read it in dis-belief back in 1987 the things he had a B-52 doing, as well as other secret capabilities that he attributed to the USAF. I haven’t read anything else that he published since.
“Flight of the Old Dog”
What a great story!!!!
IMHO
My Grandpa McDuffie was born in 1865. It is truly amazing the things he would have seen growing up. He died in 1955.
Convair NB-36H Peacemaker Nuclear-Powered Test Aircraft, but you would glow when you landed
Boing made the AirFrame, Pratt & Whitney made the Engines.
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