The B-21 Raider is a new high-tech strategic bomber developed for the US air force. the 70-year-old B-52 Stratofortress, the 49-year-old B-1 Lancer and the 33-year-old B-2 Spirit, a strategic A DREAM IN OHIO. The origins of the B-52 are as legendary as the airframe itself. Former Air Force Capt. Robert O. Harder, a Vietnam-era B-52 navigator-bombardier who has written extensively about the airframe, said the Air Force had found itself in a bomber crisis several years after the conclusion of World War II: the B-36 Peacemaker was nearing obsoletion by the time it entered service in It was 60 years ago today, on April 15, 1952, that a B-52 prototype built by Boeing took off on its maiden flight. The 1950s-vintage B-52s are no longer in the U.S. Air Force inventory, but the 90 The first eight re-engined bombers will join a B-52 test force at Edwards Air Force Base, California meant to assess all of the new capabilities that the next-generation B-52s will offer. The Air B-52H 61-007 'Ghost Rider' made history when it became the first B-52 to ever be regenerated from long-term storage to flying condition. '61-007' had been in storage November 2008 at 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group at Davis-Monthan AFB, it took 19-months to prepare the 45-year-old bomber for flight. 5. The 1961 Goldsboro B-52 crash was an accident that occurred near Goldsboro, North Carolina, United States, on 24 January 1961. A Boeing B-52 Stratofortress carrying two 3.8- megaton Mark 39 nuclear bombs broke up in mid-air, dropping its nuclear payload in the process. The pilot in command, Walter Scott Tulloch, ordered the crew to eject at The Air Force's youngest B-52 Stratofortress will turn 50 years old this October. It's the subject of a terrific writeup by Tech Sgt. Chris Powell, packed with great detail about the bomber, and Originally intended to be America’s nuclear bomber, the B-52 gained a new mission with the advent of GPS-guided weapons: Close air support. The B-52 has come to the aid of troops in contact in Bxamu2.