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Tail guns blazing.
#vintage illustration#vintage aircraft#aircraft#bomber aircraft#military aircraft#u.s. military#united states military#united states air force#us air force#u.s. air force#united states armed forces#sac bombers#b 52 stratofortress#b 52#b-52#boeing b-52#boeing#boeing b-52 stratofortress#boeing b-52 bomber#b-52 bomber#bombers
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Cancelled Missions: X-15 Blue Scout
"American air-launched orbital launch vehicle. In March 1962, NASA proposed an orbital launch vehicle using the B-52/X-15 combination. A Blue Scout booster would be fitted to an extendable launch rail on the belly of the X-15. The X-15 would be air-launched from the B-52, and then itself air-launch the Blue Scout well above the earth's atmosphere.
Status: Design 1962.
The proposal was rejected due to concerns over safety and economics (despite it being promoted as a low-cost launch system)."
Information from Astronautix.com: link
source, source
#North American X-15#X-15#X-Plane#Experimental High-Speed Rocket-Powered Research Aircraft#Research Aircraft#XRM-91 Blue Scout Junior#Journeyman B#Blue Scout#Blue Scout Junior#XRM-91#Rocket#1962#undated#Boeing B-52 Stratofortress#Boeing B-52#B-52 Stratofortress#B-52#Stratofortress#Buff#Bomber#Cancelled#Cancelled Mission#my post
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Boeing B-52 mother ship and North American X-15 Rocketplane model
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The second sketch in my new sketchbook. The proportions are a little wonky, but I like it. Boeing B-52 Stratofortress.
#queer#trans#ww2#airplane#heavy bomber#bomber#vietnam war#dogfight#airforce#military#boeing b-52#boeing
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A B-52H Stratofortress from the 2nd Bomb Wing at Barksdale lands at RAF Fairford as part of Bomber Task Force 25-1 on Nov. 5, 2024. (laiken king)
@kadonkey via X
#b 52 stratofortress#boeing aviation#bomber#aircraft#usaf#sac#aviation#nuclear weapons#cold war aircraft
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Fortress Family
#Boeing#B-17#Flying Fortress#B-29#Superfortress#B-52#Stratofortress#Thunderbird#Doc#Buff#Bombers#warplanes#warbirds#planes#airplanes#Bomber formation#airshow
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Boeing B-52 Stratofortress conducting minimum interval takeoffs (MITO), an aircraft scramble technique designed to put as many aircraft in the sky as quickly as possible.
Gotta love those old smoky Pratt & Whitney J57 turbojets!
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B 52 "The Buff" Stratofortress, And The Evolution Of Giant U.S. Bombers ➤➤ VIDEO: https://youtu.be/BhzFiSniXjA
#youtube#aircraft#airplane#aviation#dronescapes#military#documentary#aviation history#b 52 stratofortress#boeing#american bomber#aviation lovers#aviation photography#aviation industry#cold war#vietnam war#korean war#war in the middle east#atomic bomb
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B-52 Stratofortress
Power plant: Eight Pratt & Whitney engines TF33-P-3/103 turbofan Armament: Approximately 70,000 pounds mixed ordnance -- bombs, mines and missiles
Speed: 650 mph
Range: 8,800 miles
Crew: Five (aircraft commander, pilot, radar navigator, navigator and electronic warfare officer)
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Whooeee! She’s bigger than Texas!
#u.s. air force#b-52#b-52 stratofortress#boeing b-52#boeing#b-52 bomber#sac#strategic air command#sac bombers#buff#military aircraft#stratofortress#jet aircraft#jet bombers#nuclear triad#vintage illustration#illustrators#comic books#comics#comic art#vintage comics#comic#comic book art
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"The second free-flight test of an evolving series of X-38 prototypes took place July 10, 2001 when the X-38 was released from NASA's B-52 mothership over the Edwards Air Force Base range in California's Mojave Desert. Shortly after the photo was taken, a sequenced deployment of a drogue parachute followed by a large parafoil fabric wing slowed the X-38 to enable it to land safely on Rogers Dry Lake at Edwards. NASA engineers from the Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards, and the Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas, are developing a 'lifeboat' for the International Space Station based on X-38 research."
Date: July 10, 2001
NASA ID: EC01-0204-2
#NASA X-38 CRV#X-38#Crew Return Vehicle#CRV#NASA#spaceplane#lifting body#Dryden Flight Research Center#Edwards Air Force Base#California#Boeing B-52 Stratofortress#B-52#mothership#bomber#July#2001#X-Plane#my post
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youtube
#youtube#militarytraining#Taxiway#Fairford#England#Airbase#Military#Aviation#Takeoff#RAF#RAF Fairford#Air Force#Aircraft#Base#Bomber#USAF#British Air Force#Military Aircraft#Bomber Aircraft#United States Air Force#B-52 Bomber#B-52#Cold War#Airplane#Taxi#Air Base#RAF Base Fairford#Landing#Boeing B-52 Stratofortress#Strategic Bomber
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re: them going viral
i think it would make ice disintegrate to open up twitter and see something like
@bigboybussy49: OMG GUYS COUPLE GOALS THEY'VE BEEN TOGETHER FOR 36 YRSSS!!!! 😫🏳️🌈
yes, and:
@TKazansky: Wrote a piece for @theAtlantic about the US Military’s recent commitment to ensuring safe working conditions for active-duty LGBT service members at home and abroad. Diversity has always been this country’s greatest strength & we must recognize it as our military’s greatest asset. Read more below: [theatlantic.whatever/ret-SECNAV-Tom-Kazansky-on-lgbt-service-members.062322.whatever] [45 replies / 86 rts / 1,275 likes]
well-meaning Twitter rando: [replying to @TKazansky:] still war crimes sir
ice: well that’s enough social media for this month i think
#poor guy just can’t win#not to make everything political but#big fan of the big gay b-52#it is actually our military’s greatest asset#you want the military to be diverse so all the nukes aren’t in the hands of violent cishet white supremacists#but yeah someone commented on one of my one-shots saying#’WE GOTTA GET ICE AND MAV TO A PRIDE PARADE’#and i was thinking…. if i saw the commander of the pacific fleet &#a guy who’d just recently made the news for almost starting wwiii by bombing another country…#at MY local pride parade…. i WOULD be throwing eggs at them sorry#cementing my reputation in this fandom as the political icemav guy#and as a hypocrite (typing this while planespotting at JFK in my Boeing-mcdonnell douglas jacket)#asks#edts notes#ICE IS THE WOKE MILITARY ELITE SUBSERVIENT TO THE DARK BRANDON REGIME
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I retired from the United States Air Force 2 years ago today, and now many of my friends are being deployed to the Middle East on B-52's to deter Iran. Please wish them luck 🙏
@Glory_Doge via X
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