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To: Farmboy who wrote (21326)	2/11/2016 3:48:40 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to 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

To: Farmboy who wrote (21326)	10/7/2016 12:45:29 AM
From: TimF	1 Recommendation Recommended By lightshipsailor Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23908

USAF returns mothballed B-52 bomber to service Gareth Jennings, London - IHS Jane's Defence Weekly 03 October 2016 The US Air Force (USAF) has returned a Boeing B-52H Stratofortress strategic bomber aircraft to service that had been mothballed in the 'boneyard' at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base (AFB) in Arizona. The 55-year old aircraft, known as 'Ghost Rider' (tail number 61-007), was flown to its operating base at Minot in North Dakota on 27 September following a 19-month refurbishment by the 76th Aircraft Maintenance Group at Tinker Air Force Base (AFB) in Oklahoma. With approximately 45,000 man-hours having gone into restoring the aircraft to full operating capability, 'Ghost Rider' will now join the 5th Bomb Wing of the Air Force Global Strike Command (AFGSC). The USAF announced its plans to restore 'Ghost Rider' to service in February 2015 to maintain its 76-strong B-52H fleet following a mishap at Barksdale AFB in Louisiana in 2014 that left a B-52 severely damaged. Since work began, another B-52 was destroyed in an accident on the island of Guam, though no announcement has been made as to whether the USAF will repeat its effort in restoring another retired aircraft to service. At the height of its strength, the USAF B-52 forces comprised some 744 aircraft, although this number has been cut to just 76 (with 75 now in operation) in accordance with the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty with Russia. janes.com