The B-52 Was Designed In A Hotel Room Over One Weekend

B-52Bs on the flightline in 1957 (U.S. Air Force photo) 

SandBoxx: The B-52 was designed in a hotel room over one weekend (and will probably fly for 100 years) 

America’s legendary B-52 Stratofortress first took to the skies more than 70 years ago and will likely remain in service beyond its century mark. In fact, the B-52 is now slated to continue flying long after much newer bombers, the B-1B Lancer and B-2 Spirit respectively, have already been sent out to pasture. 

But what may be most incredible about this long-lasting and broadly capable platform is that the aircraft itself, often referred to as the BUFF (Big Ugly Fat Fellow), was actually designed over the span of a single weekend by a small group of Boeing engineers stuffed into one hotel room in Dayton, Ohio.  

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WNU Editor: The first B-52 flight was on 15 April 1952. More on the B-52 from Wikipedia (leak here).