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Posted on 6/15/26 at 6:23 pm to Turnbach
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Early this year Boeing was awarded a $2 billion contract to modify and test two B-52s equipped with new engines. I wonder if this was one of the two planes.
An OT BUF driver said it was not.
Posted on 6/15/26 at 6:24 pm to FreedomBarefoot
Posted on 6/15/26 at 6:57 pm to FreedomBarefoot
no survivors unfortunately
Posted on 6/15/26 at 6:59 pm to FreedomBarefoot
I believe all 7 aboard were killed
Posted on 6/15/26 at 7:13 pm to FreedomBarefoot
So terrible. That's an awesome aircraft. I have sat in B 52 cockpits many times monitoring fuel loads in 1965 and 1966. I still love that plane.
Posted on 6/15/26 at 7:21 pm to scrooster
My girlfriend in college uncle flew them in Vietnam. He told her they gave the crew cyanide tablets in case they were shot down.
Posted on 6/15/26 at 7:36 pm to FreedomBarefoot
It was a mix crew of Military, Civilian, and Government officials.
Posted on 6/15/26 at 7:44 pm to Stidham8
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Extremely sad. There doesn’t look like anything is left.
Fully fueled. May as well have been fully loaded with napalm...
Posted on 6/15/26 at 7:52 pm to Da Sheik
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My girlfriend in college uncle flew them in Vietnam. He told her they gave the crew cyanide tablets in case they were shot down.
M7 or M6 rifles, three days worth of water and rats, pain killers, emergency 1st aid with inflatable splints, mobile comms and location signal emitters, ... and yes, cyanide capsules that you bite down on.
Standard issue kits on bombers and fighter jets back in the day.
I've actually seen one of the kits minus the morphine, cyanide and the rifle ... although I own genuine milspec versions of both survival rifles today.
The M7 (AR7) that I own is the original Armalite version. Henry makes them now. (Think Sean Connery, From Russia With Loves, he downs a helicopter with one.
The M6 is a foldable over/under 22LR/410 with a special lever trigger system that pilots could still fire with a broken hand ... which sometimes happened during ejections. Hands and femurs ... thus the morphine.
One of my Privates left the Army, went into the Airforce OCS program, spent 25 years with Airforce Para Rescue, retired as a Lt Col. He's got one of those kits. He and I secured our survival rifles at an auction from a collector.
But yeah ... they definitely had cyanide capsules although there's no record of any downed pilots ever using them. There's a mention of one pilot almost using them in the book by the female author about The Hanoi Hilton.
The capsules were made of glass ... you put it in your mouth and held it under your tongue or in your cheek if you were in danger of being captured. Then, if you knew you were in bad trouble, after being captured, you'd bite down on the capsule and that was it. If you accidentally swallowed it, it would pass through your system and eventually crap it out.
Posted on 6/15/26 at 7:55 pm to FreedomBarefoot
R.i.p.
Posted on 6/15/26 at 8:21 pm to OKTiger83
A toast...
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