Read more: 14 Best Fighter Planes And Jets Of All Time The B-52 is a strategic bomber and has plenty of stats to back that up. It can carry a payload of 70,000 lbs. while flying up to Mach 0.84 ...

Simple Flying compiled a list of odd facts about the B-52 bomber, as highlighted by the USAF. The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress is a subsonic strategic bomber capable of achieving long-range flights ...

First taking to the skies in April 1952, and introduced into the US Air Force in 1955, the B-52 Stratofortress has ... This fleet is set to go on flying beyond the type’s 100th birthday, into ...

The B-52 sporting the amazing throwback paint scheme ... essentially acting as a flying launch pad. It operated at altitudes of nine miles, providing the rocket planes it carried with necessary ...

Leaving enough margin in the design has meant that despite flying for decades, the B-52s still in service still have plenty of structural life left in them. The B-52 is known for its distinctive ...

Incredibly, the B-52, a 70-year-old bomber, will soon be one of the most advanced, relevant combat platforms in the world. In fact, the Air Force intends on flying these birds well into the 2040s ...

By James Clark Posted on May 12, 2019 8:15 PM EDT A new documentary places the audience inside of a B-17 flying fortress during one of the deadliest moments of World War II for American military ...

While many outside the military know about bombers like the B-2 Spirit, that's only one of three aircraft that are the Air Force's strategic bombers. The other two are the B-52 Stratofortress and ...

If the Air Force Loves the B-52 Bomber So Much Why Not Build New Versions ... To keep the aging bombers flying, the Pentagon has literally invested billions of dollars, and the B-52s have received ...

Most recently, two Russian SU-27 Flanker fighters got dangerously close to as U.S. B-52 that was flying over the Black Sea on Friday. “The Russian pilots flew in an unsafe and unprofessional ...

Four US Air Force B-52 bombers from the 2nd Bomb Wing at Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana arrived in England with about 300 airmen on October 10 for a bomber task force deployment.

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