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Bomb's AWAY! ooops it wasn't a bomb
discusdad
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it was an engine that dropped off the venerable B 52 while on a training flight over North Dakota recently.
http://www.defensenews.com/articles/engine-drops-out-of-b-52-during-training-at-minot-air-force-base?utm_content=bu
http://www.defensenews.com/articles/engine-drops-out-of-b-52-during-training-at-minot-air-force-base?utm_content=bu
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no security leak. WE are limited in the # of B-52s in operation as part of the last nuclear deal START? the russians have an equal # of their long range bombers also.
So they say.. [:D]
The upgrades to the platform that allow it to be an orbiting precision guided munitions platform make it (and the B1-B for that matter) ideal for the missions we currently have.
There is speculation that it may become a 100-year platform. With the first service date being in 1955, it is possible.
It is probable that it will outlive both the B-1B and the B-2, particularly if the B-2 replacement that is envisioned achieves the design goals being stated.
Brad Steele
My post-desk-job flying assignment was supposed to be a B-52 instructor slot. Worst of the worst in my view. So repugnant that I resigned from active duty rather than take that assignment. Good choice, as it turned out.
But it's still a fabulous airframe.
don't forget ARCLIGHTS
Pops always liked it when I called him Chrome Dome.[:)]
Brad Steele
Great airplane. Back in my day, SAC was the worst command to be assigned to. Terrible morale, micro-management, high divorce rates, and bottom of the list for assignment choices.
My post-desk-job flying assignment was supposed to be a B-52 instructor slot. Worst of the worst in my view. So repugnant that I resigned from active duty rather than take that assignment. Good choice, as it turned out.
But it's still a fabulous airframe.
That must have been post Lemay. In his day SAC was elite (My Dad was SAC in the early fifties. He flew in B29s, B50s, B36s, B45s, B47s and the occasional A26)
dan
And here I thought you were talking abot the poor lady in salt lake city that the airplane dumped their toilet on her house car and driveway.
dan
Man, what a crappy thing to have happen to you.
Great airplane. Back in my day, SAC was the worst command to be assigned to. Terrible morale, micro-management, high divorce rates, and bottom of the list for assignment choices.
My post-desk-job flying assignment was supposed to be a B-52 instructor slot. Worst of the worst in my view. So repugnant that I resigned from active duty rather than take that assignment. Good choice, as it turned out.
But it's still a fabulous airframe.
Man that's the truth about SAC...the only guys I knew that were thrilled were the young guys right out of Tech School
Something about a blue ascot with stars...[:D]
The AWESOME B-52 Stratofortress plane are between 50 - 60 years old. They were the main bomber during the Vietnam War and saw/heard many of them take off, fly and land from U-Tapao AFB on the gulf of Thailand.
Trump is right, it's time to update and modernize our military hardware and equipment ~ something Obozo has let fall by the wayside.
Disagree.
The B52 still works just fine and will continue to work just fine for many years to come.
The American military regularly tries to solve every problem in the most elaborate and expensive manner possible. The last attempt to update the B52 resulted in a plane that costs $2,500,000,000 each. The American navy will say with a straight face that it needs a $3,000,000,000 LCS to fight Somali pirates in Boston Whalers and toting rusty AK's.
I couldn't put it any better than this guy.
http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/ov-10-broncos-were-sent-to-fight-isis-and-they-kicked-a-1764407068
Nothing new. I live about 10 miles from the end of the runway where C5A's are stationed. A few years ago a complete set of wheels fell off a C5A and landed in the woods just down the road from my house.
From 69 to 74 or so, we lived about a mile from the end of the Charleston AFB runway (directly in line). C5s coming in from Vietnam nonstop were a few hundred feet up when they went over.
These days, I can see the runway at Dobbins RAFB from my office where Lockheed does C5 and C130 work. There is nothing that sounds like a C5 whine when the throttle is full.
Capt. Jack Sparrow.
Possible reasons for catastrophic disintegration (among others) include a failed turbine or compressor blade, failed auxiliary gearbox, or a birdstrike. My money would be on the latter.