Cool!I've got just shy of 3000 hours in the Buff, quite a bit of it as Instructor time. It's one heck of an airplane.
I was downstairs. Started out as a newbie navigator, then upgraded to Instructor, then as a Radar Navigator (in reality, a weapons system officer/nav combo), then an instructor in that position. Taught at the Combat Crew Training School in various capacities for about 4 years. All that was back in the Cold War days when we flew low-level nap of the earth type flights and pulled nuclear alert on a regular basis. No GPS, no INS, etc. Ah...those were the days!Cool!
Were you upstairs or downstairs?
A Photoshopped picture. No way this happened. Besides, this is an H model Buff, not a "D."Another cool pic.
View attachment 285727 24 750lb dumb bombs can be carried on the underwing pylons.
The bomb bays were designed to carry nuclear weapons, and originally could carry only about 27 conventional bombs internally. During the Vietnam war, many of the D model B-52’s were converted under the “Big Belly” program to strictly conventional use and were able to carry 84 500-pound bombs in the bomb bays along with the 24 750-pound bombs under the wings for a total of 60,000 pounds of ordnance.
Too bad.A Photoshopped picture. No way this happened. Besides, this is an H model Buff, not a "D."
Fight to win. Kill everybody, burn it all down, salt the ground. Then dare anybody else to **** you off. There'd be a war to end wars.The west can write history however it wants, carpet bombing civilians is sad.
There are very few problems in this world that cannot be solved by the proper snd judicious used of high order explosives.Fight to win. Kill everybody, burn it all down, salt the ground. Then dare anybody else to **** you off. There'd be a war to end wars.
It is still just the son of a B-36 Never grew up to be as big as dad.In my air force time I was with some E-3 AWACS units, and the E-3 air frame was a the Boeing 707, which of course was designed and built in the same time frame as the B-52. One of the accounts of the E-3 design that I read remarked that when Boeing was designing the first generation of large jet aircraft, there were a lot of unknowns about how they would perform over their life, so the air frame was essentially over-engineered. This cut into performance specs like speed and distance , compared to later airliners, but it made for very rugged air frames with lots of life in them, and the ability to hang lots of stuff on them.
In other matters, the multi-plane raids and the Doolittle raids were of course awesome feats, but as far as I'm concerned, the B-52 is the most menacing looking bomber ever built.
These are the specs basically for the A - F models, especially for the tail and gross weight. The current H model is even mo’betta.The bomber is 162 feet, 1 inch (49.403 meters) long with a wingspan of 230 feet (70.104 meters) and overall height of 46 feet, 9 inches (14.249 meters). The empty weight is 171,035 pounds (77,580 kilograms) and combat weight is 266,100 pounds (120,700 kilograms). Maximum takeoff weight is 410,000 pounds (185,973 kilograms).
Not to belittle the Buff but to see 1000 bombers approaching your front door would have to be the pinnacle of bombing history.
The Biggest Bombing Raid of World War II: 1000 Bombers Sent to Destroy Berlin | The National Interest Blog
Eh, maybe the B-52 and some F-16s, but they will be escorted by F-35s. Maybe a few F-15 EXs.The B-52 and the F-15 will be doing the fly bys when the F-22, B-1, and the F-35 are retired…,
Remember visiting the museum for the first time. Walking around absorbing all the details until I was next to a huge landing gear. Then looked up and realized the B-36 was above me.......It is still just the son of a B-36 Never grew up to be as big as dad.
The bomber is 162 feet, 1 inch (49.403 meters) long with a wingspan of 230 feet (70.104 meters) and overall height of 46 feet, 9 inches (14.249 meters). The empty weight is 171,035 pounds (77,580 kilograms) and combat weight is 266,100 pounds (120,700 kilograms). Maximum takeoff weight is 410,000 pounds (185,973 kilograms).
Pima Air and Space Museum in Tucson, Arizona
B-36 at the Air Force Museum
www.airplanes-online.com
I have really got to take a trip up thereBUFF !
I have really got to take a trip up there