* B-52H ‘Wise Guy’ was filmed taking flight at Tinker Air Force Base last week
* It's being prepared to return to action with the 5th Bomb Wing at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, after a 12-year hiatus from active service
* Wise Guy is only the second B-52H bomber ever to be regenerated from the famed aircraft cemetery ‘Boneyard’ at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, in Arizona
* The bomber was retired in 2008 after logging more than 17,000 flight hours
* The aircraft was intended to remain in the cemetery to be cannibalized for parts
* However, it was selected for restoration after the 2016 crash of a B-52 in Guam
A B-52H nicknamed ‘Wise Guy’ has become only the second Boeing Stratofortress bomber to ever be restored out of the Boneyard and returned to the fleet after it was videoed taking to the skies once again last week.
The B-52, tail number 60-034, was filmed by Redbone Aviation taking flight at Oklahoma's Tinker Air Force Base where it had arrived back in April to undergo programmed depot maintenance (PDM) – the final part of a three-phase process to regenerate an aircraft to return it to active service.
The Wise Guy is being prepared to return to action with the 5th Bomb Wing at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, after a 12-year hiatus from active service.
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Update: A B-52H Nicknamed "Wise Guy" Becomes The Second To Ever Come Back From The Bone Yard (Warzone/The Drive)
WNU Editor: This was one of the last B-52s to be built in the early 1960s.
1 comment:
Very cool, especially the note that was left inside. It would be fitting if he went and picked it up and flew it back into service!
Those planes just seem to fly forever, a testament to the designers who built them, the maintainers and the crews who fly them.
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