Boeing B-52 Stratofortress: 100 Years of Service

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[CONSOLETRUTH]

Awesome fact: there is 1 b52 in service currently that has been flown by 3 generation of pilots from the same family. So it was flown by a grandfather, father, and son. THAT is amazing for ANY kind of craft be it military or otherwise.

[alanrogers]

I'm now retired, [I'll be 70 in a few months], but both my father and myself flew these beasts. As the Oldsmobile ads used to say, "This isn't your Grandfather's Oldsmobile". However, you CAN say, "This is your Father's B-52". We actually both flew the same aircraft.

[Happymali]

12:30
"Yeah we almost blew up one of the Carolinas.
But that's why we got two of them."

[MartiniPinball]

Not quite sure why people say it’s ugly, i think it looks rather magnificent.

[inaz]

The last B-52 rolled off the assembly line in 1962. When they retire in 2045, they will all be at least 83 years old. Damned impressive.

[wkadams]

When I was in the Air Force 5 years ago, I was told pretty commonly that the last B-52 pilot's mother hadn't yet been born.

[philrod]

"They don't build them like they used to"? Why would they? They still have the old ones!

[HisDivineShadow]

My hotel was at the end of a runway where these craft were about 75 feet high on take off. This was the loudest sound I'd ever heard: the ground shook, my colleague could not hear me shout even a couple of feet from his ear. It demands total respect.

[corrinking]

I still insist that while not a green screen, if you compile the backgrounds of the various Simon channels, we have hopes of piecing together the room that Simon is being held captive in and being forced to pump out channel after channel for the masses.

[keithallver]

The B-52 is a great example of the saying If it's not broke, don't fix it.

[arturoarevalo]

That was the best episode of Binging with Babish so far.

[DYLAN]

The narrator: "operation crome dome"

Me: notices narrators bald head.

[deusexaethera]

This man appears to be trying to replace all documentary studios in the world singlehandedly. Is it legal to have a monopoly on documentaries?

[tommyestridge]

It isn't fast or stealthy, but when you just need a flying dump truck for bombs and/or missiles, call the B-52s.

[Condorito]

"Dayton, Ohio: The everleading edge of aeronautics."

*Stares in Wright-Patterson*

[JLHunter]

I can still recall being 4 years old, living on Taiwan, and watching as the B-52s took off from a nearby Air Base at a rate of about one per minute during the escalation phase of the Vietnam War.

In one particularly unnerving incident, of which I was blissfully unaware being only 4 years old, a B-52 actually lost one of its 500-pound bombs and it dropped only a half a block from our house. My friends and I heard the bomb crash into an open field, so naturally we all ran over there to investigate. To the absolute HORROR of the BDU (Bomb Disposal Unit) that showed up to deal with the unexploded ordnance, us kids were playing with it and clambering all over it, even banging on it with rocks to see if we could get inside! OMG! Wow! If I only knew then what I know now.

[FatManWalking]

Slim Pickens donning his cowboy hat with James Earl Jones in the bombardier's seat and George C Scott describing their flight, will always be burned into my memory of the B-52

[Curling]

When the last B2 is retired, its crew will be shuttled back home on a B52.

[noonedude]

The Stratofortress is a naming convention which includes the Flying Fortress and the Super Fortress

Dayton is home to a very advanced Air Force research and testing center.

And yes the design change was that casual.

[WTH]

How did you miss mentioning the dramatic role B-52's played in "Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb" ? The image of Slim Pickens waving his cowboy hat is one of the true classics in all of film history. (Note: the voice of Darth Vader was one of the plane's crewmen.)