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Wright Brothers, first flight 49 years before first B-52 flight
Posted on 12/17/25 at 11:29 am
Posted on 12/17/25 at 11:29 am
B-52s still in service after 73 years and will probably still be in service 100 years after their first flight.
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Posted on 12/17/25 at 11:33 am to blueridgeTiger
Yeah we are basically repowering the B-52s, updating some avionics, and will keep on using them for decades. Probably well into the 2050's.
The eventual replacement (Raider....or whatever comes afterward) will have to meet requirements that none of us have ever thought of yet. Hard to imagine how to make these airframes scalable to handle weapons and tech that doesn't exist yet. I doubt anything will have a lifespan that the B-52 has seen though. Future long range bomber fleets will be even less standardized than they are today, with the B-52 likely still being a part of the formula.
Some of those B-52s are 20+ years older than me and will still be in service after I die.
The eventual replacement (Raider....or whatever comes afterward) will have to meet requirements that none of us have ever thought of yet. Hard to imagine how to make these airframes scalable to handle weapons and tech that doesn't exist yet. I doubt anything will have a lifespan that the B-52 has seen though. Future long range bomber fleets will be even less standardized than they are today, with the B-52 likely still being a part of the formula.
Some of those B-52s are 20+ years older than me and will still be in service after I die.
This post was edited on 12/17/25 at 11:44 am
Posted on 12/17/25 at 11:43 am to blueridgeTiger
“Imagine all the people we can bomb with this new technology.” - Orville Wright
Posted on 12/17/25 at 11:44 am to blueridgeTiger
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blueridgeTiger
how many people were there for their first flight?
Posted on 12/17/25 at 11:46 am to 777Tiger
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how many people were there for their first flight?
Damn how old do you think he is?
Posted on 12/17/25 at 11:47 am to dewster
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Damn how old do you think he is?
I really don't have room to talk but I think he's even older than me
Posted on 12/17/25 at 11:49 am to 777Tiger
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777Tiger
How many germans did you shoot down in WW1?
Posted on 12/17/25 at 11:49 am to Cosmo
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How many germans did you shoot down in WW1?
now you're just hurting my feelings
Posted on 12/17/25 at 11:50 am to blueridgeTiger
As loud as they can be in flight path of Barksdale AFB, still an impressive sight. Hopefully, the new RR engines will be a tad quieter.
It’s really cool that there could be Grandpa, Father & Son all flying in a B-52.
It’s really cool that there could be Grandpa, Father & Son all flying in a B-52.
Posted on 12/17/25 at 11:54 am to blueridgeTiger
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Wright Brothers, first flight 49 years before first B-52 flight
Posted on 12/17/25 at 12:03 pm to NoBoDawg
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As loud as they can be in flight path of Barksdale AFB, still an impressive sight.
Wife (no pix) and I were in a motel in Bossier City in January, 1991 when those behemoths were taking off right over our location, fully loaded with bombs destined for the Middle East. The whole building shook every time one flew over.
Posted on 12/17/25 at 12:09 pm to blueridgeTiger
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The whole building shook every time one flew over.
I worked at BAFB almost every summer as a kid, that was while the Vietnam war was going on, they would have alerts periodically and every bomber and tanker on the field would fire up and fast taxi to get in the air asap until the alert was called off, that was pretty ompressive, the ground literally shook and they still had a lot of those old water wagon tankers and they would make the sky turn black on takeoff
Posted on 12/17/25 at 12:11 pm to blueridgeTiger
Not even 70 years between first flight and Moon landing.
America used to be the baddest badass on the block. At anything. Everything. Sports. War. Innovation. Industry. Spelling. Math. Music. Entertainment. You name it.
America used to be the baddest badass on the block. At anything. Everything. Sports. War. Innovation. Industry. Spelling. Math. Music. Entertainment. You name it.
This post was edited on 12/17/25 at 12:12 pm
Posted on 12/17/25 at 1:00 pm to Ace Midnight
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America used to be the baddest badass on the block
Agreed.
Still the baddest arse, but imagine if we kept everything to ourselves? (tech, med, innovation, military tech, rockets, jets, hamburgers....
Still, copy cats would get figure out a way
If I recall we gave Nuke (bomb) tech to UK;
Russia, China stole there's, France figured it out (how?) not sure about India, Pakistan. Israel?
This post was edited on 12/17/25 at 1:01 pm
Posted on 12/17/25 at 1:02 pm to Ace Midnight
We're still the best at DEI, pronouns, and number of genders.
Posted on 12/17/25 at 1:04 pm to blueridgeTiger
And then we forgot how to go to the moon.
Posted on 12/17/25 at 1:30 pm to dewster
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Yeah we are basically repowering the B-52s, updating some avionics, and will keep on using them for decades. Probably well into the 2050's.
Past that. My second oldest son is an engineer on that project. He passed on several jobs offers out of college because they were old airframe related. Gets hired by Boeing to work on the Dreamliner and by the time he starts was transferred to the BUFF project.
Posted on 12/17/25 at 1:32 pm to Mid Iowa Tiger
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He passed on several jobs offers out of college because they were old airframe related.
that's kind of goofy
Posted on 12/17/25 at 1:34 pm to Ace Midnight
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Not even 70 years between first flight and Moon landing.
I always thought being alive for that period would have been amazing. From horses being the primary mode of travel to the moon landing. Someone could have seen it all.
Posted on 12/17/25 at 1:35 pm to 777Tiger
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that's kind of goofy
He’s kind of goofy himself.
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