Happy B-52sday!

"Jcarr" (jcarr) 01/13/2015 at 09:23 • Filed to: Planelopnik, B-52sday

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I don't care much about the MR2 so I'm doing a Planelopnik highjack and declaring it B-52sday!

Enjoy some BUFFs!

Hahayoustupidludditeshutupandgohandcrankyourmodeltalready > Jcarr 01/13/2015 at 09:25

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This I support.

Wheelerguy > Jcarr 01/13/2015 at 09:30

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Please show me a passenger B-52. I'm genuinely curious.

Jcarr > Wheelerguy 01/13/2015 at 09:32

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What?

ttyymmnn > Wheelerguy 01/13/2015 at 09:32

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No room for pax. Only bombs.

McMike > Jcarr 01/13/2015 at 09:33

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I used to live there.

Watched a scramble or two from the end of the flight line there in the early 80s

Takuro Spirit > McMike 01/13/2015 at 09:40

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Anyone have a larger version of this?

ttyymmnn > Jcarr 01/13/2015 at 09:42

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Similar to my F-22sday post last week. I fully support this.

Sam > Jcarr 01/13/2015 at 09:42

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It's amazing that the B-52 has been around since the 50's. It looks completely modern.

Jcarr > Sam 01/13/2015 at 09:47

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I don't remember the current service life projection off the top of my head, but I think there's a decent chance that it could end up being in service for nearly 100 years. That's mind-boggling.

v8corvairpickup > Jcarr 01/13/2015 at 09:51

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Am I doing it right?

As a kid, I remember hearing/seeing B-52s on approach to Westover AFB in Chicopee, Ma. They were wicked loud and huge.

McMike > Takuro Spirit 01/13/2015 at 09:55

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This is the biggest one I could find.

Takuro Spirit > McMike 01/13/2015 at 09:55

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She's not very BUFF.... or is she?

Chris Clarke > Jcarr 01/13/2015 at 10:04

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Off topic. Any chance you snapped a pic of this plane at Oshkosh?

Jcarr > Chris Clarke 01/13/2015 at 10:10

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I know I didn't intentionally. I suppose there's an off chance that I might have gotten it while shooting something else. Where was it parked? Any significance?

Chris Clarke > Jcarr 01/13/2015 at 10:15

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Not really sure where it was parked. Probably over toward the experimentals near where they do the forums toward the warbirds. Not a big deal. Its currently flying a pole to pole world record flight I was thinking about writing about.

https://go.spidertracks.com/fleetpro/publi…

Jcarr > Chris Clarke 01/13/2015 at 10:18

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I just scanned through my 2014 file. Didn't see it anywhere. I'll be up there Friday-Sunday this year so if you won't be around those days and want pictures of anything just let me know.

Chris Clarke > Jcarr 01/13/2015 at 10:19

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Thanks for checking, no worries. Not sure my schedule yet, but the weekend is my favorite time to go, so I'll be sure to check back with you when I know more.

user314 > Takuro Spirit 01/13/2015 at 10:21

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Best I could find is 1024x468 .

Takuro Spirit > user314 01/13/2015 at 10:26

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DAT GRAIN DOE.

Chris Clarke > Jcarr 01/13/2015 at 10:29

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Maybe shoot me an email as a reminder sometime. shiftsandgiggles@gmail.com

user314 > Jcarr 01/13/2015 at 10:31

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Two of my favorite BUFF quips:

"The B-52, with its familiar wrinkled fuselage sides, has enough metal to make 10,000 garbage cans. The wiring in the Stratofortress is equivalent to five miles of baling wire. Its engines are as powerful as eight locomotives. And that's the way it flies, like eight locomotives, pulling ten thousand garbage cans with five miles of baling wire!"

and

"Bombing from B-52s is very, very accurate. From 30,000 feet, every single bomb always hits the ground."

user314 > Sam 01/13/2015 at 10:33

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That's because they resemble the prototype only in the most general sense:

user314 > Jcarr 01/13/2015 at 10:44

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So apparently sometime in the '50s a toy company called Line Mar (or possibly Linemar) released a tin YB-52 in Pan Am colors:

So the guy that runs air-and-space.com got curious, and shopped a real B-52:

And it's gone around the interwebs without context.

Jcarr > user314 01/13/2015 at 10:53

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Interesting. Could have made a few extra bucks during Chrome Dome by cramming a few seats in and dropping some folks off in Northern Europe or something...

user314 > Jcarr 01/13/2015 at 11:03

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The mothership for everything from the X-15 to the X-43, NASA's NB-52B Balls 8

At the time of her retirement, Balls 8 was the oldest B-52 in service, the only B-52B (Actually an RB-52B recon variant) in service, and had the lowest flight time of any B-52. On the right side, stretching from the wing's leading edge to almost the rear landing gear door, are marks for every mission flown.

ly2v8-Brian > Jcarr 01/13/2015 at 11:07

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I love that the big bird will be flying into its 90s.

user314 > Takuro Spirit 01/13/2015 at 11:08

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Yeah, digital zoom, I think.

This one's better: