Air Force will keep iconic B-52s flying through mid-century

64 years. It's technically possible for a great-grandson of a Buff pilot to be flying one, but I haven't heard it yet. It's possible (though not likely) that one of the first pilots, at 44 years old, already had a 22 year old son graduating AFROTC and getting assigned a B-52 the next year (1955). The son's wife has a baby boy that year who gets his own Buff 23 years later (1978). That grandson's wife has a baby girl in 1978, and the first great-grand-daughter pilot flies the B-52 in 2001. So 17 years after that theoretical earliest chance, you'd think we might have one by now.

I bet the KC135 has a similar family story and with most of them being in air guard units it is probably happened a few times already.

GOOD