B-52 Stratofortress
Feb 24, 2021 06:28:21 #
blindman
Loc: Louisiana
I live a few mil from Barksdale AFB. B52 is every day experience, but you never get tired of seeing time. I always look up. They took off from here in Louisiana and bombed the daylights out of Sadam Hussein and turned around and flew back non stop. Link to article https://www.texarkanagazette.com/news/texarkana-region/story/2020/jan/29/story-secret-flight/814195/
Feb 24, 2021 06:34:23 #
Feb 24, 2021 06:51:26 #
Beautiful. There was a poster out some years ago. The photo was taken from the air and looking at a B-52 head on. The caption... B-52 someone over 30 you can trust.
--Bob
--Bob
Rob48 wrote:
Great New England Airshow; Westover ARB, Chicopee, MA
Feb 24, 2021 06:54:26 #
Rob48 wrote:
Great New England Airshow; Westover ARB, Chicopee, MA
Nice shot Rob
Feb 24, 2021 07:00:56 #
Man , that's a big plane . Even looking at a distance like the photo shows . Thanks for sharing
Feb 24, 2021 07:51:57 #
Rob48 wrote:
Great New England Airshow; Westover ARB, Chicopee, MA
Amazing how GOD gave us something so beautiful and yet SO very deadly!! Thanks
Tom
Feb 24, 2021 07:57:29 #
planepics wrote:
I have a pic from Oshkosh a few years back of a B-1, B-2 and a B-52 flying in formation. My dad worked on some ECM for the B-1 when he worked at Northrop.
I took this at this years Superbowl, from my yard.
Feb 24, 2021 07:57:30 #
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Feb 24, 2021 08:04:24 #
aphelps
Loc: Central Ohio
Rob48 wrote:
Great New England Airshow; Westover ARB, Chicopee, MA
Back in the 60s I lived near Pease AFB. One night we were at a nearby drive-in theater when they scrambled all of their B-52s and KC-135 tankers. Had to shut the movie down for a half hour because of the thunderous noise. At least the snack bar did well.
Feb 24, 2021 08:05:10 #
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Feb 24, 2021 08:34:27 #
Saw a lot of those during my nine years in the Air Force during the 60s and early 70s. A good friend was a co-pilot. We ran into each other overseas when he was flying missions over Vietnam.
Feb 24, 2021 09:48:22 #
Feb 24, 2021 09:54:32 #
Used to watch them take off from Guam in the early 70's. I was on a fast attack submarine in 1972 when we were diverted to search for crew that had been shot down over 'Nam and had gotten as far as the ocean before they had to bail. Found all of them, thankfully.
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