#boeing b-52
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stone-cold-groove · 7 months ago
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Whooeee! She’s bigger than Texas!
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lonestarflight · 1 year ago
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Cancelled Missions: X-15 Blue Scout
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"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.
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Status: Design 1962.
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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
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flying-tiger-123 · 10 months ago
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Boeing B-52 mother ship and North American X-15 Rocketplane model
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lovelyrobin · 11 months ago
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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.
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usafphantom2 · 11 days ago
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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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nocternalrandomness · 2 months ago
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Fortress Family
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floridanative · 2 months ago
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enriquemzn262 · 11 months ago
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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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nelc · 1 year ago
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dronescapesvideos · 11 months ago
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B 52 "The Buff" Stratofortress, And The Evolution Of Giant U.S. Bombers ➤➤ VIDEO: https://youtu.be/BhzFiSniXjA
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histrorybygosh · 1 year ago
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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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stone-cold-groove · 1 year ago
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How America can continue to have aircraft that are second to none.
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lonestarflight · 1 year ago
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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
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defensenow · 6 months ago
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compacflt · 2 years ago
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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
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ice: well that’s enough social media for this month i think
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usafphantom2 · 20 days ago
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Boeing B-52G with ALCM May 31, 1979. (RO SoD)
@kadonkey via X
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