Re: B-52 Bombers - got a few questions ?????

Posted by big fred on September 24, 2001 at 20:34:21 from (208.51.245.61):

In Reply to: B-52 Bombers - got a few questions ????? posted by Alberta Mike on September 24, 2001 at 19:11:12:

They quit making them in (best I can remember) 1963, but in 1980, shortly after I started at Boeing, I worked on them. We were doing avionics upgrades, and I was on the engineering team. They keep getting upgrades, and there was a proposal a few years back to replace the 8 (!) engines with two engines similar to those used on the 757.

Saw one do a low flyby down Boeing field in Seattle in formation with a B-17 once for a company photo op. Very impressive. I was standing by the runway fence probably only a hundred yards away and they were less than 200 ft altitude.

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