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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 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.
The two unexploded B-28 FI 1.45-megaton-range nuclear bombs on the B-52 were eventually recovered; the conventional explosives of two more bombs detonated on impact, with serious dispersion of both plutonium and uranium, but without triggering a nuclear explosion. After the crash, 1,400 metric tons (1,500 short tons) of contaminated soil was ...
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 ...
The 1961 Goldsboro B-52 crash was an accident that occurred near Goldsboro, North Carolina, United States, on 24 January 1961.A Boeing B-52 Stratofortress carrying two 3.8-megaton Mark 39 nuclear bombs broke up in mid-air, dropping its nuclear payload in the process.
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 ...
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 heat-seeking missile struck one of the BUFF's engine pods on the port wing causing failure of the wing structure, and subsequent breakup of the bomber. Pilot, co-pilot, crew chief and tail gunner successfully ejected, but three other crew-members were killed while flying (KWF) when the B-52 crashed on Mount Taylor, New Mexico. [75] [76] 11 ...