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The "Ghost Rider" B-52 Rises From The Grave To Ride Again

提交时间：6 年以前

U.S. Air Force serial number 61-0007, a B-52H known by its nose art as "Ghost Rider," was brought out of seven years of storage at the Defense Department's boneyard in Arizona. Its new mission? To replace an active B-52H that was badly damaged by fire while on the ground at Barksdale Air Force Base and make the USAF arms treaty-dictated fleet of 76 B-52s whole once again (foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com) 更多...

Mark Lansdell

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sparkie624 6 年以前 5

Glad it is coming back.... Wish they had more of them back in service.... The B52 is one of the best bombers of all time.

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oowmmr 6 年以前 3

I'll say, first flew 1952!!. Talk about getting your monies worth.

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billgrafton1979 6 年以前 3

WOW a monster comes top life man that will rock. Planespotters will enjoy seeing this old B 52 in the air when they can. Nice aircraft and mighty powerful too

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Harold Brewer 6 年以前 3

Go old BUFF. Welcome back to the USAF.

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Youelle 6 年以前 3

Ghost Rider is the real Phoenix. They must have learned a lot from this first experience.

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Jack Kallenbach 6 年以前 3

I worked on her when I was at K.I. Sawyer. I was at K.I. Sawyer long enough for all of the H models to cycle through. These things were built to last.

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MIKE SWICK 6 年以前 1

good old days I was down the road at Kinchloe before we closed it

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Peter Blouin 6 年以前 2

PEACE... The Old Fashioned Way !

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DAVID MCKIE 6 年以前 2

The BUFF just lives on!! Incredible aircraft, fantastic service record and still history to be made.

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JOHN DELLINGER 6 年以前 2

We need more like it. May it fly safely for years.

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oowmmr 6 年以前 2

That's a great aircraft and interesting design.

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Mark Lansdell 6 年以前 1

Looong wings and tall power, big truck, big pay load.

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Tim Marks 6 年以前 2

Eight T33s burning and 70K of firecrackers loaded up, let's go kick some ISIS booty!

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Lewis Tripp 6 年以前 2

That's Boeing. American.

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Jon Van Staalduinen 6 年以前 2

Set heading to Syria, Iraq, all 8 on full power......pound those isil pricks

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w1gba1 6 年以前 1

Why can't they bring the rest of the B-52Hs in storage at the "Boneyard" up to "mission ready status" (with all the bells and whistles found on all the rest of the BUFFS in the fleet and put them back into storage if "something hits the fan"?

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Bobbie Munger 6 年以前 1

Just plain awesome!

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Matthew Donica 6 年以前 1

This is not the first time an aircraft left the "boneyard". A few years ago NASA got a regenerated WB-50 after something like 30 years in storage. All of the QF-4's came from there along with the new QF-16's. Making aircraft ready to return to the fleet is part of the mission of AMARC.

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Robert Farquharson 6 年以前 1

And all those very fast and pretty F-106's that got shot down in the Gulf of Mexico? F-102's, F-84's as well.

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James Frey 6 年以前 1

Flew her in '75 to '77 at Kincheloe AFB.

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MIKE SWICK 6 年以前 1

yo only place in the world I had to crawl out my back window to shovel off my front porch

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JOHN DELLINGER 6 年以前 1

The amount of destructive power carried by these aircraft could make a nice parking lot in Afghanistan for the new Wal Mar.

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Wayne Fox 6 年以前 1

I worked as an ECM tech on this 1007 at Minot in 1967 1968.

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Jeff Pelletier 6 年以前 1

Very cool!

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Robert Farquharson 6 年以前 1

I always loved that aircraft. Sure, with eight of everything to work on it kept us all busy. I worked on the D models while in Guam. 18 months of nothing but B-52D's. It was then, it is still now ONE AWESOME BOMBER!!! There will never, ever be another aircraft of that type.

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Ric Wernicke 6 年以前 1

ISIS lives by intimidation, destruction, power, and cowardly acts. A small fleet of these B52's carpet bombing their strongholds would have them on their knees crying for their mama. Sure was effective in moving the Viet Cong out of Cambodia.

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lynx318 6 年以前 2

Bomb the crap out of ISIS , that's great but for the civilian population interspersed among their hoards. This is the reason it's not already done & we know they're crazy but they're not stupid. I wish we could get rid of these nutjobs quicker!

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sparkie624 6 年以前 -8

If ISIS lives by intimidation, lets give them some.. take a fleet of B52's and give them NON-STOP 24 hour bombing from these planes... Give them some intimidation and see how long they last, but as long as we have a muslin pres, that will never happen.

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William Heck 6 年以前 1

Groundhog Day. Keep on keep on.

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George Hotaling 6 年以前 -6

They should take them all out of mothballs and use them repeatedly to bombthe animals in the Middle East in to oblivion! Instead Obama will probably use them to transport his family and friends on junkets, on our dime, of course!

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MIKE SWICK 6 年以前 0

if you cannot stay on topic please go elsewhere to post this forum is about aircraft not your opinion about politics

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Robert Farquharson 6 年以前 1

I AGREE

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Stan Dickerson 6 年以前 -3

Ok Gents, Relax...Yep The Old Dog No Doubt Will Do The Job. But Relax That Fight Is Acroos The Street in the Arab leaders Back yard....When The Republican Industrial Machine Identfies The Dollar That's In it for Your Sons Or Daughters Life Will You still Be So Hot-To-Trot ?.....Because Their Kids Ain't GOING!

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George Hotaling 6 年以前 1

Keep drinking the kool-aide! Use the aircraft for what it was designed for, destroying the enemy!

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Hans Lam 6 年以前 0

Wat een knap staaltje werk van de vliegtuigontwerpers in die tijd. Je kan met zo'n toestel heel veel materieel van de vijand vernietigen en tegelijkertijd mensenlevens redden in een aanvalsvlucht. Mergem.

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sparkie624 6 年以前 0

The universal language in aviation is English!

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lynx318 6 年以前 1

Using Bing translator "What a handsome piece of work of the aircraft designers at the time. You can with such a device very much stock of destroy the enemy and at the same time people save lives in a window of a flight. Mergem"

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