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B-52H profile, circa 1987 Boeing B-52H static display with weapons, Barksdale Air Force Base 2006. A second B-52H can be seen in flight in the background. Data from Knaack, [302] USAF fact sheet, [303] Quest for Performance [304] General characteristics. Crew: 5 (pilot, copilot, weapon systems officer, navigator, electronic warfare officer)
One other B-52H (61-0025) was flown for many years by the Air Force Flight Test Center at Edwards, and was transferred to NASA on 30 July 2001 as a replacement for the RB-52B. On 9 May 2008, that aircraft was flown for the last time to Sheppard AFB , Texas where it became a GB-52H maintenance trainer, never to fly again.
A total of 744 B-52s were built with the last, a B-52H, delivered in October 1962. It served in the Strategic Air Command, the Air Combat Command, and the B-52H continues to serve in the Air Force Global Strike Command and the Air Force Reserve Command. The B-52D models have the distinction of being the last bombers in aviation history to have ...
The U.S. Air Force recently announced that the last squadrons of the legendary B-52's have returned home after concluding operations against ISIS. 11 photos of the legendary B-52 Stratofortress bomber
On 5 June 2015, the 69th deployed three B-52H Stratofortress bombers to RAF Fairford for two weeks for exercises BALTOPS 15 and Saber Strike 15 taking place in Europe. [8] Four B-52H Stratofortress bombers from the 69th Bomb Squadron were flown to Nellis Air Force Base to participate in exercise Red Flag 15-3, which took place 13–31 July 2015 ...
The Boeing B-52H Stratofortress is America’s primary strategic bomber, taking part in every US war since Vietnam. ... The Air Force is planning to upgrade the B-52H to newer B-52J models, giving ...
On Friday, 24 June 1994, a United States Air Force (USAF) Boeing B-52 Stratofortress crashed at Fairchild Air Force Base, Washington, United States, [2] after its pilot, Lieutenant Colonel Arthur "Bud" Holland, maneuvered the bomber beyond its operational limits and lost control.
The 96th Bomb Squadron is a unit of the United States Air Force 2d Operations Group located at Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana. The 96th is equipped with the Boeing B-52H Stratofortress . Formed in August 1917, the 96 BS saw combat on the World War I Western Front , in France.