B-52 Stratofortress Landed In Australia For Bomber Task Force Mission

Six of the Cold War-era Boeing long-range bombers could be rotated to RAAF Base Tindal to support U.S. Air Force operations ...

Why this long-range bomber will likely be the 1st jet aircraft to reach 100 years of continuous flying

Upgrades, new engines, and modern radar are keeping the B-52 Stratofortress on track to become the first jet aircraft to ...
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How the US Air Force starts the powerful engines of a B-52 bomber

Welcome back to The Daily Aviation for a feature on the 70 year old bomber still in use today, the B-52 Stratofortress. Voice ...

America’s B-52 Is Getting a New Radar — And It’s Staying Until 2050

The US Air Force is spending up to $766 million to modernize the B-52 Stratofortress, a bomber that first entered service in ...
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B-52 bombers land in Australia as defense chiefs signal larger US footprint Down Under

The U.S. government has funded extensive upgrades at Tindal, about 200 miles southeast of Darwin, to accommodate the bombers.
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‘Something was wrong with the plane’: Wife of B-52 crash victim speaks out

The wife of one of the crew members aboard the B-52 bomber that crashed at Edwards Air Force Base in Southern California Monday, killing all eight people on board, spoke with KTLA 5 News Tuesday. KTLA ...
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From The Focke-Wulf Fw 190 To The P-51 Mustang | WWII Battle Of The Engines | Engineering Pioneers

The WWII race to the best engines. The story of how the Rolls Royce Merlin engine equipped the extraordinary P-51[...] ...