The B-52 Ghost Rider’s refurbishment, modernization, and restoration work were finished in 272 calendar days by Tinker’s 565th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron. The rare photos in this post showcase the first…
The B-52B of the National Museum of Nuclear Science and History is the only BUFF that has ever dropped an atomic bomb The Boeing B-52B Stratofortress serial number 52-0013, which…
The B-52 was designed to carry nuclear weapons in the event that the Cold War turned hot. In 1956, at the height of the Cold War, Boeing began working on…
A legendary chapter in Air Force history has come to an end Lt. Col. Richard “Dick” E., retired The “Doolittle Raid’s” last survivor, Cole, passed away on April 9 in…
“We were lead aircraft with #2 and #3 echeloned loosely behind us. Looking out my right window, I discovered #2 was slowly drawing abeam. Both #2 aircraft’s pilots were dead-ass…
It was difficult to land a direct shot at a target that was only 15 feet wide from a medium altitude. Experience taught us that even close calls would not…
He was the father of Derrick Thomas, a linebacker and defensive end for the Kansas City Chiefs who was elected to the NFL Hall of Fame in 2009. Capt Thomas…
“We could have been throwing up dust clouds behind us, we were so low. One wrong move and we’d have been splattered over miles of cactus,” Jay Lacklen, former B-52…
“The B-52 suddenly snapped nose down ten degrees, a horrendous and panic-inducing loss of control that promised to kill us all in about ten seconds as the moonlit pine forest…
“As the plane leveled off, Hunt’s Mesa suddenly appeared above the aircraft on the crew’s radar scopes that displayed the plane’s position well below the mesa rim. The pilot firewalled…