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[News] B52 still going strong



knocky1

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Jan 20, 2010
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All my life I have believed the B52s group to be named after the Enola Gay, Hiroshima bomber plane. Now I realise that was a B29, I think, and this workhorse is the B52 from where they came.
 

Cian

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Jul 16, 2003
14,262
Dublin, Ireland
2044 is probably too early if they follow through with the re-engining programme - will be replacing the 8 engines with 4 much newer ones if that happens.
 

Frutos

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May 3, 2006
35,477
Northumberland
Awesome aircraft, known to crews as the BUFF (Big Ugly Fat F**cker) but certainly still capable of 'doing a job' and likely to be so for a long time.

If only we'd have been able to maintain and upgrade our Vulcans in the same way as the Yanks have with this...
 



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