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Happy Birthday to the B-52 Stratofortress turns 60

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Posted 16 April 2012 - 01:06 PM

Amazing to think that the B-52 has been flying for 60 years and is still a frontline aircraft.
Awesome to see. Saw a couple coming in off Lake Huron to land at Wurtsmith back when that base was still operational.

CNET: Sixty years on, the B-52 is still going strong

Seattle PI: Boeing B-52 celebrates 60 years in the air


There are the naysayers who can find nothing else to say other than that these are massive machines of death.

Uh, isn't that what a "bomber" is suppposed to be? Just glad they are ours.





Loved Wings. Have a ton of them on VHS...


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Posted 16 April 2012 - 05:11 PM

Happy 60th BUFF...only 5 months older than me!
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Posted 16 April 2012 - 05:35 PM

An amazing feat! An amazing aircraft!

Happy Birthday!
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Posted 18 April 2012 - 08:56 PM

March 1980, hitching a ride to Australia to have drinks on the reef and do a little Marlin fishing. Bumped into this guy at the gas station over the South Pacific, first B-52 Flight to Australia.

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Posted 19 April 2012 - 09:40 AM

Awesome pictures.

Two of my teachers -- one in junior high (a USAF major), one in high school (USAF colonel) -- flew KC-135s during the Vietnam era. They had neat, scary and sad stories, for sure.
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Posted 20 April 2012 - 08:48 PM

Sweet! Loved WINGS too.

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