Thanks neverdem. I once read an anecdote; that when the last B-52 is flown off to be mothballed, the flight crew will come home on a B-52. It’s one of those cool folk song hyperboles / exaggerations / absurdities (”ten thousand was killed who never was born”) that shows that the B-52 is going to be around forever. :’) It’s already into its second calendar century, and flew the first time in 1952, 57 years ago, so the B-52 design could very well see it’s second *actual* century, and the way new systems are built in such small quantities and limited relevance due to changing technology, could actually be in military service of some sort on its hundredth anniversary.