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The padded shoulder, tubular, boxy line, and short skirt (that had been around since before the war and was identified with uniforms) was gone. [2] A succession of style trends led by Christian Dior and Cristóbal Balenciaga defined the changing silhouette of women's clothes through the 1950s.
While taking off from U-Tapao Royal Thai Navy Airfield in heavy rain on an Operation Arc Light mission on 19 July, a B-52D (tail number 55-0676) crashed and caught fire when it overran the runway on takeoff. The pilot and co-pilot had different readings on their airspeed indicators, so they decided to abort the takeoff.
Each mission was a simulated use of electronics on the bomber to jam enemy radar so that the Cold War mission could be accomplished, while at the same time the ground crew of radar and electronic technicians were doing the same. 5 miles (8.0 km) west of the Bay Shore site was the Big Rock Point Nuclear Power Plant owned by Consumers Power and ...
The Boeing B-52H Stratofortress is America’s primary strategic bomber, taking part in every US war since Vietnam. ... B-52s remain the cornerstone of the US bomber fleet, sending a high-profile ...
A post seen on X purports to show Russian President Vladimir Putin’s airplane being escorted through the sky by a fleet of bombers. Verdict: False Planes shown are American B-52 bombers, which ...
The B-52 command pilot did not do a final verification check before signing the manifest listing the cargo as a dozen unarmed AGM-129 missiles to depart Minot. [11] General T. Michael Moseley, USAF chief of staff at the time of the incident. The B-52 departed Minot at 08:40 and landed at Barksdale at 11:23 (local times) on 30 August.
A Chinese fighter jet came within 10 feet (three metres) of an American B-52 bomber flying over the South China Sea, nearly causing an accident, the US military has said. In the night intercept ...
The fire resulting from the aborted takeoff ignited the aircraft's fuel and detonated the 30,000-pound (13,600 kg) bomb load of twenty-four 500 lb (230 kg) bombs, (twelve under each wing) and forty two 750 lb (340 kg) bombs inside the bomb bay and caused a blast so powerful that it created an immense crater under the burning aircraft some thirty feet (9 m) deep and sixty feet (18 m) across.