Happy Birthday!

[ResearchMonkey]

Air Force Global Strike Command will commemorate the 60th anniversary of the first flight of the B-52 Stratofortress on April 15, 1952.


USAF Global Strike Command

 

[2minkey]

the big black smoketrails from the engines of those guys are something to behold.

 

[Winky]

 

[ResearchMonkey]

the big black smoketrails from the engines of those guys are something to behold.

Smoke trails? ...that's nothing, you should see the columns of smoke it can make.

 

[Professur]

My first flights were on 707's .. using straight turbojet engines instead of the turbofan engines used today. Lots more black smoke and lots more noise ... but I sure liked them.

 

[2minkey]

Smoke trails? ...that's nothing, you should see the columns of smoke it can make.

just like the ones you saw as a rural villager in north vietnam?

 

[jimpeel]

War is Hell.

 

[Winky]

We need to use them on something worthwhile

 

[2minkey]

 

[ResearchMonkey]

How about Los Angeles?

 

[ResearchMonkey]

The Air Force wants its B-52s to keep flying until 2040, ...