A 65-year-old B-52 Stratofortress landed safely at Offutt Air Force Base about two hours after declaring an emergency over ...
The U.S. Air Force long has kept the same three bombers in rotation, but that will soon change. The United States has the most robust fleet of strategic bombers on Earth. For a generation, the U.S.
Delays continue to plague the development of the Stratofortress' successor, but once it does enter service, the Boeing B-52J ...
Airman First Class Albert Moore became the last B-52 gunner to down an enemy aircraft with rear guns in any American war.
A B-52 Bomber was forced to make an emergency stop at Offutt Air Force base this week. The aircraft was four hours into training on a flight out of Louisiana on Wednesday when it experienced ...
This was the case on January 24, 1961, when a B-52 bomber carrying two powerful hydrogen ... the centrifugal forces pulled on a lanyard in the cockpit — exactly as a crewmember would if he ...
Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana — Laser-Guided Bomb Units, commonly referred to as LGB's, were dropped from the bomb bay of a B-52 Stratofortress ... more LGB's on the aircraft or give ...
What's it like to fly a B-52 during a simulated nuclear alert? Journalist and Defense News contributor Jeff Bolton finds out. What's it like to fly in a B-52? Journalist and Defense News ...
The B-21 Raider is the first new American bomber aircraft in more than 30 years ... flyover of the three bombers still in service: the B-52 Stratofortress, the B-1 Lancer and the B-2 Spirit.
The B-52, like most American military aircraft, has undergone numerous upgrades to ensure it remains a viable strategic bomber well into the 21st century. The latest fielded model is the B-52H ...