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The refueling probe from the KC-135 pierced the skin on the wing of the B-52. Upon landing at Larson AFB, the starboard wing failed, and the aircraft caught fire during the landing roll. The runway at Larson was damaged. All crew members were evacuated.
2008 Guam B-52 crash; O. 1968 Kadena Air Base B-52 crash; P. 1966 Palomares incident; S. 1964 Savage Mountain B-52 crash; T. 1968 Thule Air Base B-52 crash; U.
The B-52's US$72,000 cost per hour of flight is more than the B-1B's US$63,000 cost per hour, but less than the B-2's US$135,000 per hour. [ 232 ] The Long Range Strike Bomber program is intended to yield a stealthy successor for the B-52 and B-1 that would begin service in the 2020s; it is intended to produce 80 to 100 aircraft.
1963 B-52 crash in New Mexico USA: New Mexico: B-52 Stratofortress: Unknowingly exceeded design capability 2 Near Mora: [7] loss of vertical stabilizer [8] 1964-01-04 1964 B-57 crash USA: Dayton: NRB-57 Canberra: Mis-management of fuel system, causing CofG to be beyond its safe rearward limit 2 Both wings failed 1964-01-10 B-52 flight test of ...
A B-52H similar to the one involved in the accident. The mission plan for the flight called for a demanding series of low-altitude passes, 60° banked turns, a steep climb, and a touch-and-go landing on Fairchild's runway 23. The flight was also Wolff's "finis flight" – a common tradition in which a retiring USAF aircrew member is met shortly ...
The United States said on Friday it will deploy B-52 bombers, fighter jets, refueling aircraft and Navy destroyers to the Middle East, in a readjustment of military assets as the Abraham Lincoln ...
Boom operator's view of a B-52 from a KC-135 tanker The planes collided, with the nozzle of the refueling boom striking the top of the B-52 fuselage, breaking a longeron and snapping off the left wing, [ 7 ] [ 8 ] which resulted in an explosion that was witnessed by a second B-52 about a mile (1.6 km) away. [ 9 ]
Accident; Date: 21 January 1968: Summary: In-flight fire leading to crew ejecting: Site: 7.5 miles (12.1 km) west of Thule Air Base (formerly Pituffik), Greenland 1]: Aircraft; Aircraft type: B-52G Stratofortress: Operator: 380th Strategic Bomb Wing, Strategic Air Command, United States Air Force: Registration: 58-0188: Flight origin: Plattsburgh Air Force Base: Stopover: Baffin Bay (holding ...