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RayNAiken
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'Ghost Rider': B-52 resurrected from desert Boneyard Do you suppose it's because of all the increased Russian aircraft activity off our coasts? http://us.cnn.com/2015/02/21/us/arizona-b-52-restored/index.html
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Arnie M.
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. B52's are just plain awesome Many years ago an airshow up here hired one to do a low and slow flypast .... a lady in the crowd behind me said it was like watching an earthquake in the sky .
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MadMuz
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RayNAiken
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Arnie M. wrote: . B52's are just plain awesome Many years ago an airshow up here hired one to do a low and slow flypast .... a lady in the crowd behind me said it was like watching an earthquake in the sky . You ought to watch them drop a load of bombs! That was the first time I could see air. Never saw the plane or any vapor trail. The captains RTO said everyone take a look south and he started counting down. It looked like the southern half of the country exploded....... and we were over 7 miles away.
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GyroGeorgia
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I read somewhere the B-52's were slated to fly into the 2040's or 2050's... the airframes were built SOOO tuff... the AirForce decided they do not need to replace them.
Personally... I doubt TPTB will scrap any of them, other than some reason a specific airframe would cost too much to fix.
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RayNAiken
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GyroGeorgia wrote: I read somewhere the B-52's were slated to fly into the 2040's or 2050's... the airframes were built SOOO tuff... the AirForce decided they do not need to replace them.
Personally... I doubt TPTB will scrap any of them, other than some reason a specific airframe would cost too much to fix. "As part of the 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty between the United States and Russia, 365 B-52s were flown to the Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona. The bombers were stripped of all usable parts, then unceremoniously chopped into five pieces by a 13,000-pound steel blade dropped from a crane. The modern-day guillotine crashed down four times on each plane, severing the mammoth wings and leaving the fuselage in three pieces. The ruined B-52s remained in place for three months in order for orbiting Russian satellites to confirm the bombers had been destroyed, after which they were sold for scrap at 12 cents a pound." Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-52_StratofortressThe United States only has 85 B-52's left in active service, all of the "H" model, with 9 reserve.
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GyroGeorgia
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So in 1991... a bunch of B-52's were destroyed....
What I heard was a few years ago... and if memory serves... it was on a documentary on Smithsonian channel.
So while a bunch of B-52's were destroyed last century... as I read it the decision I mentioned was made in THIS century.
Kinda a different thing IMO.
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MadMuz
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ScaryGary
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I wonder if my Father In Law flew that BUFF . I seen that it was back in service and I was going to show him the article . He was a B-52 pilot from 1962 to 1968 . Way too cool ! 
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