Author Topic: Happy Birthday Boeing B-52 (Read 561 times)

Ripsnort · « **on:** April 12, 2002, 09:22:14 AM »

50 years ago this week, the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress was penned by engineering as "in work". 2 years later in 1954 the first B52A made its first flight. I'd personally like to thank Boeing and its engineers at that time for making the world alittle safer with the shear presence of this aircraft that is today still flying.

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Bomber Characteristics
The B-52's eight turbo-fan engines are mounted in pairs on sharply raked forward pods under the 185-foot wing. Its operational range with one air refueling is 7,500 nautical miles. The main landing gear units retract into wheel wells in the body. The gear has eight main wheels in double tandem and two small protection wheels at the wing tip. Retracted, the main wheels are housed two-each in four fuselage wheel wells, while the outrigger gears go up into the wing.

B-52 striking power can be either nuclear or conventional. Depending on the external conventional configuration, a load of 45 or 51, 500-pound bombs can be carried 18 or 24 on external wing pylons and 27 in the bomb bay. Or 20 air-to-surface nuclear missiles may be carried, internally and externally. A conventional weapons load totaling more than 50,000 pounds can be carried.

Revvin · « **Reply #1 on:** April 12, 2002, 10:00:27 AM »

Recently had a trip to Duxford to visit the museum there and they have a B52 on display, apparently the only one in Europe and Duxford was the shortest runway it has ever had to land on. I'd seen this one before visiting Duxford on a few occassions, my girlfriend was with me this time, she paid for a weekend there as a kind of christmas present and the sight of the B52 really made her speechless.

Boroda · « **Reply #2 on:** April 12, 2002, 10:10:52 AM »

This aicraft has become a symbol of death and murder for millions of people...

Sorry.

B-52 was always a target number one. Kill them before they'll drop...

But it looks nice and dangerous.

Revvin · « **Reply #3 on:** April 12, 2002, 10:41:52 AM »

Pic of the American musuem hangar at Duxford, B52 has a B29 and B17 tucked under each wing, they look like they could fit in the glove box of the B52

Dune · « **Reply #4 on:** April 12, 2002, 10:46:16 AM »

I am of the opinion that all bombers should be known as Boeings. After all, when you copy something, you Xerox it. All tissue paper is Klenex and all crayons are Crayola's. Some companies' products just define the product itself.

All bombers should just be referred to as Boeings.

midnight Target · « **Reply #5 on:** April 12, 2002, 10:49:20 AM »

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Originally posted by Boroda
This aicraft has become a symbol of death and murder for millions of people...

Sorry.

B-52 was always a target number one. Kill them before they'll drop...

But it looks nice and dangerous.

Why the hell would the Cubans be pissed about a B-52?....

hblair · « **Reply #6 on:** April 12, 2002, 11:00:44 AM »

Bah!

Boroda's just pissed because they never had the oppurtunity to steal one and copy the design.

AKSWulfe · « **Reply #7 on:** April 12, 2002, 11:04:57 AM »

I dunno Tah Gut, but check out the upper right hand of that "poster".... ends in .ru, a russian website

Oh, and if you go to that site... there's some bare chested hotties... worth a visit.

-SW

Ripsnort · « **Reply #8 on:** April 12, 2002, 11:17:58 AM »

That poster just proves that this design had the exact effect that the Gov't wanted.

Just imagine our world if this great piece of technology (as well as others)for its time had not detered the Soviet Union from attacking us with nuclear missiles. It is/was an important national defense resource.

Eagler · « **Reply #9 on:** April 12, 2002, 11:39:49 AM »

to the plane and her crews over the years

we owe them more than we'll ever be able to repay

"The best defense is a strong offense"

Sikboy · « **Reply #10 on:** April 12, 2002, 11:49:48 AM »

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Originally posted by Boroda
This aicraft has become a symbol of death and murder for millions of people...

Yes, but the Tu-95 only dropped milk and cookies for starving children

-Sikboy

Charon · « **Reply #11 on:** April 12, 2002, 11:53:19 AM »

I got to see some doing hard banks at low altitude whaile I was at Fort Bliss years ago. It's really impressive seeing something that big do a 45 degree bank and haul it around.

Charon

Boroda · « **Reply #12 on:** April 12, 2002, 11:55:52 AM »

Well, it's a movie poster "Forgotten War", maybe it's about Vietnam.

Just imagine how does it feel when you know that these birds cruise our borders with 25 megaton eggs each...

B-52 was the main target for most of the PVO SAMs. You know, I studied as an S-200 SAM technical division officer. They were supposed to be our main targets. 10 kiloton special warhead.

This silouette was the symbol of nuclear threat for us. And that bombings of Vietnamese cities

Tah Gut, we had Tupolev's bombers, but USSR never thought that bombers are a main delivery tool.

Ripsnort · « **Reply #13 on:** April 12, 2002, 11:59:31 AM »

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Originally posted by Boroda

B-52 was the main target for most of the PVO SAMs. You know, I studied as an S-200 SAM technical division officer. They were supposed to be our main targets. 10 kiloton special warhead.

Kinda hard to set off a 10 kilo Nuke warhead when the enemy plane is flying 50 feet off the ground ain't it?

Sikboy · « **Reply #14 on:** April 12, 2002, 12:24:40 PM »

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Originally posted by Ripsnort

Kinda hard to set off a 10 kilo Nuke warhead when the enemy plane is flying 50 feet off the ground ain't it?

Didn't you see "Fail Safe?" lol, they were going to force it into the ground.

Boroda,

[edit] damn, font didn't transfer over lol
Âo âðåìÿ ÿ áûë â âîåííîì ôëîòå, ìû âñåãäà âîëíîâàëèñü áû î Tu-95-ûõ è äàæå åñëè î íèõ íå äóìàëè êàê " ãëàâíûé èíñòðóìåíò ïîñòàâêè " îíè ìîãëè áû íà÷èíàòü(çàïóñêàòü) íà íàñ îò èõ áàç, è ýòî áûëî äîñòàòî÷íî

Translation from Gibberish... When I was in the Navy we always worried about the Tu-95's. Even if they were not considered a "Primary Delivery tool" they could still nuke our base without leaving theirs lol.