B-52’s were and B1-B’s are housed at Dyess. I saw the announcement in the Abilene paper earlier.
All of the B-52’s are much older airframes than the pilots. They are still payload carriers. I read about them being used to bomb an air base near Tabqa Syria, saw after action photos of it. Flattened. Certainly not stealth. smile.
The B1-B’s will be around a while. Powerful fast groundhugging heavy load delivering workhorses. I’ve seen and felt the vibration of them on night takeoff with after burners kicked in, simply awesome.
In 2014 when ISIS was about to overrun Kobani (Syria) I saw some great night photos of the bombing we place on the Jihadi headchoppers assaulting them. Learned later it was the B1-Bs delivering the goods.
We have all seen how the ground forces still love the A-10s that the brass want’s to discard. There is nothing that does tanks any better than the heavy iron of the A-10s for some targets.
Then there are the F-16s. Still one great fighter.
The Physics of flight have apparently not been subject to the whims of Congress yet.
Hope you voted for Bruce Kreitler for city council! Full disclosure- he’s my brother.