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May 2007 photo of the Boeing RB-52B-5-BO Stratofortress 52–005 with tail colour for the Yellowtails Squadron – 330th BS/93rd BW. Initially retired to Davis-Monthan AFB in February 1966, was used as a maintenance trainer at Lowry Technical Training Center until April 1982.
The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress is a long-range, subsonic, jet-powered, strategic bomber operated by the United States Air Force (USAF) since 1955. The B-52A first flew in 1954, and the B model entered service in 1955. A total of 744 B-52s were built with the last, a B-52H, delivered in October 1962.
The B-52's US$72,000 cost per hour of flight is more than the B-1B's US$63,000 cost per hour, but less than the B-2's US$135,000 per hour. [232] The Long Range Strike Bomber program is intended to yield a stealthy successor for the B-52 and B-1 that would begin service in the 2020s; it is intended to produce 80 to 100 aircraft.
Offutt Air Force Base, south of Omaha and adjacent to Bellevue, Nebraska, became the headquarters of the United States Air Force's Strategic Air Command in 1948, and continues as the headquarters of U.S. Strategic Command. The museum, then located at Offutt, began with its first airplane in 1959 as the Strategic Aerospace Museum.
Military Avenue is a central thoroughfare located in Omaha, Nebraska.A segment of the road located at the junction of West 82nd and Fort Streets [2] was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993. [3]
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13th Street was the original arterial from Nebraska City into Omaha used by pioneers, who generally stocked up in the city and then went westbound towards the prairies and the Great Platte River Road. [1] The street was later used to run electric streetcar service from Omaha to South Omaha. [2]
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