Posted on May 20, 2022
The great aviation graveyard: New aerial images show thousands of military planes neatly left to...
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Once A Mighty Bomber, A B-52 Meets Its End In The Desert
The Air Force on Thursday destroyed the last B-52 bomber required under the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty with Russia. A crew used a circular saw to cut through the plane's aluminum skin, the tail section separating from the fuselage with a loud thunk and officially rendering the bomber useless.
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SrA John Monette
Bringing some of them out of retirement. The B-1s and B-2s can't handle the pressure.
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SrA John Monette they I actually have done that in the last couple years.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/us-air-force-bringing-b-52-bomber-back-dead-196731
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/us-air-force-bringing-b-52-bomber-back-dead-196731
The U.S. Air Force Is Bringing the B-52 Bomber Back From the Dead
It isn't that uncommon for older military hardware to return to service after being mothballed or sent out to the not-so proverbial pasture.
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I have been to the base driving back from military training but never been to the Boneyard
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Don't know how many may still be recognizable as an aircraft but every aircraft I've flown are, or have been, there.
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