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In my previous submission, I referred to the B-29 Superfortress 'Doc', which is currently based out of Wichita, KS. Pictured here is another native daughter of Wichita, though a slightly younger one. :)
B-52D Stratofortress serial number 56-0689 was built at the Boeing factory in Wichita on 11 October 1957, and was assigned to the 28th Bomb Wing (SAC) in South Dakota. From there, she spent most of her active service in Texas, flying 24-hour nuclear alert missions until 1966, and from then until 1978 partaking in the Vietnam War, participating in Operation Arc Light, Linebacker, and Linebacker II. In 1981, she was sent on temporary duty to RAF Marham in East Anglia, and apparently liked it so much that she came back to the UK in October 1983, whereupon she was almost immediately given to the Imperial War Museum in Duxford. Her flight from Mildenhall to Duxford was a very short one, as was the runway on which she had to land. In fact, 56-0689's landing at Duxford remains the shortest runway landing ever accomplished by a B-52. She is now the centrepiece of IWM Duxford's American Air Museum.
Hope you enjoy!
B-52D Stratofortress serial number 56-0689 was built at the Boeing factory in Wichita on 11 October 1957, and was assigned to the 28th Bomb Wing (SAC) in South Dakota. From there, she spent most of her active service in Texas, flying 24-hour nuclear alert missions until 1966, and from then until 1978 partaking in the Vietnam War, participating in Operation Arc Light, Linebacker, and Linebacker II. In 1981, she was sent on temporary duty to RAF Marham in East Anglia, and apparently liked it so much that she came back to the UK in October 1983, whereupon she was almost immediately given to the Imperial War Museum in Duxford. Her flight from Mildenhall to Duxford was a very short one, as was the runway on which she had to land. In fact, 56-0689's landing at Duxford remains the shortest runway landing ever accomplished by a B-52. She is now the centrepiece of IWM Duxford's American Air Museum.
Hope you enjoy!
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That reminded me of that time Top Gear did Ground Force: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=notQHci0_jU
While I would love to be left in awe, that's actually the engine of an SR-71 Blackbird - only American aircraft in this hangar. Excellent guess, though! ^__^
I can highly recommend a visit! Certainly a full day is needed to go round the whole site and get a good experience - part of that will be stopping to see the vintage aircraft taking off throughout the day, and the military aircraft from nearby air bases roaring overhead. :D
I can highly recommend a visit! Certainly a full day is needed to go round the whole site and get a good experience - part of that will be stopping to see the vintage aircraft taking off throughout the day, and the military aircraft from nearby air bases roaring overhead. :D
Awwwww, thought I was going to blow your mind there ;) I meant the one just below the USAF symbol and 120 marking on the drone though, it looks like metal and glass.
And that's definitely something I should do, just to see these aircraft in real life, oh and the modern ones!
And that's definitely something I should do, just to see these aircraft in real life, oh and the modern ones!
When I worked as a security guard at a nuke plant back in the 1980s, I was freezing my tuchis off in an unheated HVAC room on the roof of a turbine building. The laborers brought in a space heater that looked for all the world like a miniature version of one of these pairs. Warmed things up pretty fast!
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