The first of a number of expected US B-52 bombers touched down today at an RAF base in Gloucestershire. The long-range bomber, expected to be involved in any conflict with Iraq, is the first of ...
Up until the Cold War, the U.S. Air Force solely relied on its B-52 Stratofortress airframes as its primary strategic bombers. By the mid-1970s, however, engineers discovered a whole new method of ...
By World War II, bombers became some of the most important ... the B-21 Raider and China's new H-20 strategic stealth bomber. The B-52 Stratofortress is a long-range strategic bomber that entered ...
Of course, the aircraft in operation today is not the same as the one that flew the unfriendly skies back in the 1950s. The B-52, like most American military aircraft, has undergone numerous ...
A B-21 Raider conducts flight testing, which includes ground testing, taxiing, and flying operations, at Edwards Air Force Base, California. (Courtesy photo) Edwards Air Force Base, California ...
The Office, which operates under the Australian Defence Force (ADF), uncovered an intact World War 2 Beaufort Bomber aircraft as part of the HydroScheme Industry Partnership Program (HIPP). HIPP is a ...
However, after the war ended most of these were decommissioned, leaving the decaying sites hiding their history. One of these stations is the WW2 bomber station RAF Warboys just outside Huntington.