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The Air Force Wants to Install New Engines on the B-52 Bomber
Popular Mechanics ^
| December 26, 2017
| Kyle Mizokami
Posted on 12/27/2017 6:31:47 AM PST by C19fan
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There has been talk about new engines for the B-52s for decades. Looks like it might finally happen. Will miss the bilowing black smoke at takeoff.
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posted on
12/27/2017 6:31:47 AM PST
by
C19fan
To: C19fan
A very Big Bang for the tax buck!
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posted on
12/27/2017 6:33:29 AM PST
by
Billyv
(Freedom isn't Free! Get off the sidelines!)
To: C19fan
Gotta hand it to Boeing. They really do know how to build quality into their aircraft.
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posted on
12/27/2017 6:33:38 AM PST
by
Howie66
("Tone down the tagline please." - Admin Moderator)
To: C19fan
“B-52H Stratofortress nuclear bombers”
Did not know these airplanes were nuclear powered.../s/
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posted on
12/27/2017 6:34:16 AM PST
by
Castigar
To: zot
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posted on
12/27/2017 6:35:40 AM PST
by
GreyFriar
(Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
To: C19fan
The Air Force Wants to Install New Engines on the B-52 Bomber So who's stopping them?
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posted on
12/27/2017 6:37:05 AM PST
by
WayneS
(An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
To: C19fan
Right. An airshow with our a B52 walk around and the noisy filthy take off isn’t the same.
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posted on
12/27/2017 6:38:07 AM PST
by
Eddie01
To: Castigar
Yes, apparently they’ve already gotten new engines...
;-)
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posted on
12/27/2017 6:38:33 AM PST
by
WayneS
(An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
To: Howie66
Engineers trained under academic rigor. Now we’re told high standards are white male privilege and needs to be discouraged.
To: C19fan
We can re-engine the B-52 which was flying before I was born (first flight 15 April 1952) - but the A-10 (first flight 10 May 1972) is past its airframe life, don'cha know...
It's been like pulling teeth to keep the A-10s on the line!
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posted on
12/27/2017 6:41:43 AM PST
by
grobdriver
(BUILD KATE'S WALL!)
To: C19fan
New engines and new electronics....................
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posted on
12/27/2017 6:44:48 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
To: BBQToadRibs
My son is a ME. Thank God and Texas Tech that he had some great instructors!
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posted on
12/27/2017 6:45:36 AM PST
by
Howie66
("Tone down the tagline please." - Admin Moderator)
To: C19fan
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.
To: C19fan
Old Dog!
(Dale Browns, Flight of the Old Dog)
Several novels of the modernized B52 essentially turning it into an aerial battleship.
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posted on
12/27/2017 6:47:01 AM PST
by
Daniel Ramsey
(Thank YOU President Trump, finally we can do what America does best, to be the best)
To: C19fan
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.
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posted on
12/27/2017 6:48:22 AM PST
by
Purdue77
(Okay, I'm too cheap to afford a tag line.)
To: Daniel Ramsey
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.
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posted on
12/27/2017 6:51:17 AM PST
by
Purdue77
(Okay, I'm too cheap to afford a tag line.)
To: Daniel Ramsey
“Flight of the Old Dog”
What a great story!!!!
IMHO
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posted on
12/27/2017 6:53:06 AM PST
by
ripley
(ose who dis)
To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
My Grandpa McDuffie was born in 1865. It is truly amazing the things he would have seen growing up. He died in 1955.
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posted on
12/27/2017 6:54:17 AM PST
by
yarddog
To: Castigar
Convair NB-36H Peacemaker Nuclear-Powered Test Aircraft, but you would glow when you landed
To: Howie66
Boing made the AirFrame, Pratt & Whitney made the Engines.
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posted on
12/27/2017 6:56:34 AM PST
by
US Navy Vet
(Trump Train!!!)
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