A line of B-52 bombers graces the flightline of Barksdale Air Force Base in a Times file photo. The bomber, which first came to the base in August 1958, will mark the 60th anniversary of its first flight Sunday It's the first of a series of important milestones for the venerable bomber this year. File / Shreveport (La.) Times
B-52 Bomber Marks Major Milestones In 2012 -- Air Force Times/Shreveport (La.) Times
They’ve been part of the landscape of Northwest Louisiana since the late 1950s, and this year the big B-52s at Barksdale Air Force base will mark a number of milestones. It was 60 years ago Sunday that the prototype YB-52 first took to the air, thrilling employees of the Air Force and Boeing and civilians in Seattle, who witnessed the event.
It was 50 years ago this summer and fall that the last of the 744 B-52s built, an H-model that is still flying out of Minot Air Force Base, N.D., rolled off the assembly line and was accepted into the fleet.
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My Comment: Some of these B-2s will still be flying 20-30 years from now .... in short .... a total of 80-90 years of flying.
Wow!!!!....
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