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To: Farmboy who wrote (21326)2/11/2016 3:48:40 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 23908
 
SinclairZX81Ars Scholae Palatinae

Raptor wrote:

Alyeska wrote:
...keep the newest B-52Hs flying.
While true, seeing it expressed like this always amuses me. The last (i.e. "newest") B-52 rolled off the assembly line in 1962.

Which means the chronologically youngest airframe we have is 53 years old.And we can afford to do that, because we don't have just a handful burning through flight hours and eating up all of the airframe service life due only buying a couple dozen.
Maybe someone else will have said it in the intervening pages, but there are stories (possibly apocryphal, but physically possible) that, in very recent years through transfers and such, one or two B-52's have had pilots assigned to the same airplane that the pilot's father had flown when he was in service. Which had been the very same airplane HIS father had flown, when it was brand-new out of the factory.

"Yeah, guy. This was your grandpa's airplane. Now its yours."
arstechnica.com
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