B-52H reaches retirement
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B-52H reaches retirement
by OldMan on Thu Jul 31, 2008 2:22 pm
I saw this on the AF web site. http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123108767 Is it just me or is it a bit unusual that the planes are being stored in hangars at Tinker instead of ending up in Arizona?
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Re: B-52H reaches retirement
by SoupOrMan on Thu Jul 31, 2008 4:25 pm
Holy crap! They retire B-52s?
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Re: B-52H reaches retirement
by Jenamie on Thu Jul 31, 2008 6:59 pm
ummm wait a sec
"Our job now is to make sure we keep the planes left here flying," said Tech. Sgt. Paul Nixon, 5th AMXS electronic warfare element chief.
Thats not retiring
"Our job now is to make sure we keep the planes left here flying," said Tech. Sgt. Paul Nixon, 5th AMXS electronic warfare element chief.
Thats not retiring
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Re: B-52H reaches retirement
by OldMan on Thu Jul 31, 2008 9:45 pm
Beetle wrote:were not retiring crap
I thought the story sounded a bit odd but that leaves this question - WHY print that article if nothing is being retired?
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Re: B-52H reaches retirement
by SoupOrMan on Thu Jul 31, 2008 10:16 pm
Maybe that was the oldest one in the fleet at the time?
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Re: B-52H reaches retirement
by cadrock on Thu Jul 31, 2008 10:42 pm
uhh... confuse the russians maybe? their they same people who claim that a plane on a pedestal in front of a base is still a viable weapon of war... so who knows, maybe we did this to confuse em, sure confused us
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Re: B-52H reaches retirement
by OldMan on Fri Aug 01, 2008 12:00 am
Oh the planes on permanent display COULD be rebuilt to flying condition - with a couple of years of work on each of them.
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Re: B-52H reaches retirement
by cadrock on Fri Aug 01, 2008 11:34 pm
yeah that doesnt count, you could build new ones in the same amount of time
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