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Title: B-52
Post by: NUKE on March 22, 2003, 04:48:27 PM

Any plane close to it's service record?

projected service near 100 years!

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The B-52A first flew in 1954, and the B model entered service in 1955.


Current engineering analyses show the B-52's life span to extend beyond the year 2045.

Title: B-52
Post by: Rasker on March 22, 2003, 05:00:59 PM

some dc-3's still poking around, I think :)

Title: B-52
Post by: Hangtime on March 22, 2003, 05:07:08 PM

the following is a non-paid anti-airbus anti-france political announcement:

remember to insist on flying boeing commercial aircraft. tell yer ticket agent:

'screw airbus. if it ain't a boeing, we ain't going'.

carry on.

Title: B-52
Post by: hawk220 on March 22, 2003, 06:22:08 PM

Any plane close to it's service record?
projected service near 100 years!


does that put the B52 in the early-war planeset?

Title: B-52
Post by: Tarmac on March 22, 2003, 07:07:33 PM

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Originally posted by Hangtime
the following is a non-paid anti-airbus anti-france political announcement:

remember to insist on flying boeing commercial aircraft. tell yer ticket agent:

'screw airbus. if it ain't a boeing, we ain't going'.

carry on.

ooh good call.  didn't even think of that.

Title: B-52
Post by: BUG_EAF322 on March 22, 2003, 08:35:13 PM

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'screw airbus. if it ain't a boeing, we ain't going'.

isn't it british also?

Title: B-52
Post by: funkedup on March 22, 2003, 08:43:15 PM

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if it ain't a Boeing, we ain't going

Amen.

Title: B-52
Post by: BUG_EAF322 on March 22, 2003, 08:47:39 PM

wtf we doing in a boeing
:)

Title: Re: B-52
Post by: Pei on March 22, 2003, 08:56:51 PM

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Originally posted by NUKE
Any plane close to it's service record?

projected service near 100 years!

The RAF still has 8 Canberras (first models entered service  1951 ) in the recon role. There have been at least 2 if not three replacement programs all of which have been cancelled (thank you for killing our aircraft industry, HM Government). As far as I know there are no plans to remove them from service or replace them with another type.

Title: B-52
Post by: Hangtime on March 22, 2003, 08:58:35 PM

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isn't it british also?

i'd be willing to bet boeing would be glad to give any british company doing buisness with airbus programs a similar lucrative project on boeing designs if they drop all involvement with french and german aerospace companies.

Screw airbus... 'if it ain't boeing, we ain't going'.

Title: B-52
Post by: Airhead on March 22, 2003, 10:35:56 PM

NUKE I love the B-52s. "The Love Shack" is my favorite song.

Title: B-52
Post by: Leslie on March 23, 2003, 03:03:17 AM

The B-52s is a pretty cool name for a band.:D


Les

Title: B-52
Post by: Athena3 on March 23, 2003, 04:00:16 AM

Actually there's the Lockheed C-130 Hercules.  It's vastly undermentioned and is the Air Force workhorse.

First production plane  flew in 1955 and we use it for everything.  There have been at least 10 upgrades, at least 8 varients for different operations with over 60 countries using them.  They're not going to take those out of our inventory anytime soon.

Title: B-52
Post by: beet1e on March 23, 2003, 04:02:13 AM

Airbus IS (was?) part British. I worked for British Aerospace 1984-1987 at their Weybridge site, at which time BAe made the wings for the Airbus. The Weybridge site closed within a few years of when I left.

Title: B-52
Post by: john9001 on March 23, 2003, 09:45:11 AM

i've flown on C130's as passenger, really like that plane,a little noisey in the back.

Title: B-52
Post by: Fishu on March 23, 2003, 09:49:05 AM

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Originally posted by Rasker
some dc-3's still poking around, I think :)

FAF out phased DC3s in 1981!

Title: B-52
Post by: Wmaker on March 23, 2003, 10:25:11 AM

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Originally posted by Fishu
FAF out phased DC3s in 1981!

Last DC-3s in FAF service retired in 1984.

Title: B-52
Post by: john9001 on March 23, 2003, 10:25:27 AM

some small cargo/pass air carriers still use DC3's , cheap, reliable,can use short unimproved runways.

i think the cuban airline plane that was just hijacked to the US is a DC3.

Title: B-52
Post by: Leslie on March 23, 2003, 12:15:40 PM

Haven't heard about that John.  When did that happen?


Les