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Tillamook Air Museum’s B-52 Cockpit Restoration

March 7, 2023 Moreno Aguiari 0

The forward fuselage of Boeing B-52G Stratofortress 59-2579 is approaching the end of a roughly 18 month restoration effort at the Tillamook Air Museum in Tillamook, Oregon. The museum plans to formally unveil their prize […]

Restoring the Yankee Air Museum’s Boeing B-52D Stratofortress

November 19, 2018 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 0

Yankee Air Museum’s B-52 by Barry Levine The Yankee Air Museum in Belleville, Michigan has a wide range of aircraft in its collection – including a Boeing B-52D Stratofortress on permanent loan from the National […]

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Boeing B-52G Fuselage Arrives at Museum of Flight

June 3, 2018 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 0

As we mentioned would be happening today in a recent article, the Museum of Flight in Seattle, Washington moved the fuselage of their Boeing B-52 Stratofortress from its long term storage site at Paine Field […]

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B-52 Takes the Freeways to Museum in Seattle

May 24, 2018 Moreno Aguiari 1

The Museum of Flight’s combat veteran Boeing B-52G Stratofortress will soon move from Paine Field in Everett, Washington, to the Museum’s West Campus at Boeing Field in Seattle. The aircraft has been in open storage […]

Boeing B 52 Stratofortress Photo courtesy of Adam Schuett

Big Bombers Coming to AirVenture Oshkosh

June 3, 2017 Moreno Aguiari 0

PRESS RELEASE – Visitors to EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2017 will be treated to a tremendous cross-section of bombers, including what we expect to be the first joint appearance of two flyable B-29s in decades, more […]

Major Lewis on right after 200 combat missions

Edgar Lewis, The Story of The First USAF African-American B-47 and B-52 Pilot

November 21, 2016 Moreno Aguiari 5

Article by Peter Macca via rockdalecitizen.com Slip on the flight suit of one of the first USAF African-American B-47 and B-52 pilots. Put on your helmet for the next mission over Vietnam with an all-white […]

Declassified: How Pentagon Planned to Nuke Soviet Union, China During the Cold War

December 28, 2015 Moreno Aguiari 0

From an original article of By Thomas Gibbons-Neff – Stripes.com In the event of a nuclear war, the Pentagon in 1956 penned a report that listed 1,200 cities and 1,100 airfields spread across eastern Europe, […]

Return of the ‘Ghost Rider’

February 14, 2015 Moreno Aguiari 25

For the very first time, a Boeing B-52 Stratofortress has moved from the boneyard back into the sky again. The veteran bomber took off from Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Arizona for the first time […]

Boeing Modernizes B-52 Bomber Weapons Bay Launcher

January 25, 2015 Moreno Aguiari 2

While it is not normally the remit of WarbirdsNews to report on current military matters, we felt our readers might be interested in this recent modification to the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress. Considering that the B-52 […]

1st B-52 Upgraded with Innovative Boeing CONECT System

June 9, 2014 Moreno Aguiari 0

It’s hard to imagine that this country’s first long-range, swept-wing heavy bomber could do any more, or get any better. However, the B-52 of today is different. . . upgraded, more cost-effective and more capable.The […]

Boeing B-52 Stratofortress