Happy Birthday To The BUFF! The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress First Flew On This Day In 1952!

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April 15th, 1952 is a significant day for aviation. It is the day that the YB-52 prototype aircraft, the predecessor to the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress bomber, first flew with A. “Tex” Johnston at the controls. It’s been sixty-seven years since the BUFF, as it’s much better known, has been flying the skies. The amazing thing […]

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By now they are up to model H, I think? Glass cockpits, and more powerful and cleaning burning engines - they are a serious weapon in America's arsenal. It is my understanding from the guys here in Wichita who've worked the mod programs over the years that almost nothing of the original airplane still exists - except for the ivory throttle handles and some internal badging. Still, a rugged beast of a plane that could still be flying at 100 years after initial design.