Pictures of Cold War aircraft. (3 Viewers)

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SaparotRob said:
Seriously GregP , how hard could it be to get a flight worthy B-52 for The Planes Of Fame Museum, in delightful Chino, California?
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Welllllllll, Buff's is in short supply with about 70 in service and sub divided in one Reserve wing and a couple active wings. Between all the deployment and depots and regular flight requirements!!!

Shouldn't be to hard for maybe a fly by.
 
Donivanp said:
Welllllllll, Buff's is in short supply with about 70 in service and sub divided in one Reserve wing and a couple active wings. Between all the deployment and depots and regular flight requirements!!!

Shouldn't be to hard for maybe a fly by.
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Ain't there some big ol' parking lot just chock full of 'em in the Grand Canyon state?
 
SaparotRob said:
Ain't there some big ol' parking lot just chock full of 'em in the Grand Canyon state?
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Not really, had to chop up most and only the H model is left. There are a few H's in the bone yard but not many. They pulled one out of the Boneyard and brought it back to life few years ago as one was lost in an accident in 2009 off Guam so per SALT treaties not so much. There are currently 76 active and reserve B-52H's out of 102 built. All other variants are in museums or destroyed, cut at the wing/should and forward of the weapons bay and aft of it.
 
GreenKnight121 said:
Now imagine this is in Afghanistan on an unpaved strip... can we say "turbine blades abraded to nothingness by the sand"?

Just one of the reasons neither the YC-14 nor the YC-15 replaced the C-130.
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Hard to say - the engines are high up. And in any case, the C-130s be they T-56 models or AE2100 models still have turbines.
 
Army is restricted from fixed wing fighters! They can have all the egg beaters they want but nix on the fixed wing thing. That is USAF territory alone.
 
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