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A B-52 carrying nuclear weapons was a key part of Stanley Kubrick's 1964 black comedy film Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. [308] A 1960s hairstyle, the beehive, is also called a B-52 for its resemblance to the aircraft's distinctive nose. [309] The popular band the B-52's was subsequently named after this ...
B-52B-5BO 52-005 at Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum NB-52A. 52-0003 - Pima Air & Space Museum adjacent to Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Arizona.It is a converted B-52A that was used by the Air Force Flight Test Center at Edwards AFB, California as the X-15 Launch Aircraft; now on display and marked as 0003 The High and the Mighty One.
A Boeing B-52H Stratofortress in flight. The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress has been operational with the United States Air Force since 5 June 1955. This list is of accidents and incidents involving the B-52 resulting in loss of life, severe injuries, or a loss of an aircraft (damaged beyond repair).
B-52C 53-0406, which crashed on Elephant Mountain, was the second high-tailed B-52 to suffer such a fatal structural failure. After extensive testing and another three similar failures (two with fatal crashes) within 12 months of the Elephant Mountain crash, Boeing determined that turbulence would over-stress the B-52's rudder connection bolts ...
The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress bomber had been designed in the early 1950s by Boeing Aircraft Company to give the United States Air Force the capability of delivering nuclear weapons far inside the territory of the Soviet Union. The planes were to fly at high altitude with enough fuel to hit their target.
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
The B-52 aircraft, callsign Czar 52, [6] took off at 13:58 and completed most of the mission's elements without incident. Upon preparing to execute the touch-and-go on Runway 23 at the end of the practice profile, the aircraft was instructed to go around because a KC-135 aircraft had just landed and was on the runway.
The Stratofortress’ X-15 rocket aircraft flew pilots to unprecedented altitudes and speeds. The first winged vehicles reached speeds of Mach-1, Mach-2, Mach-3, and Mach-4, respectively. They also flew for the first time over 130,000 feet, and eventually reached more than 364,000 feet (about 100,000 meters) above the surface of the Earth. [ 4 ]