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BREAKING: Rolls-Royce F130 Engines Will Power Up the B-52H Fleet
The Program Will Provide New Engines and Other Updates to Keep BUFF Flying Through the 2050s According to the US Air Force, “The Department of the Air Force has awarded…
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WATCH: Ride Along On a BUFF Mission With This Inflight Video
B-52H Operations Today Must Look Similar to How They Looked When These BUFFs Were Born The modern Boeing B-52H Stratofortress is destined to serve for the foreseeable future as America’s…
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Top 5 Really Snarky Nicknames For Airplanes
Nicknames bring personality to machines. If an airplane really great airplane or a really crappy one, it’ll get a great nickname. If you are a pilot, you probably remember that…
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BUFFs On the Move Are a Feast For Avgeek Eyes and Ears
Just because we here at Avgeekery.com love BUFFs as much as Avgeekery Nation does, we’d like to share a special tribute to the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress. We’ve combed the interwebs…
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Watch the Freshest BUFF in the Fleet Wow the Crowds at Last Year’s EAA AirVenture
From our good friends at Airshow Stuff comes this clip of the Boeing B-52H Stratofortress Air Force serial number 61-0007 (CN 464434) performing flybys for the huge crowd of avgeeks…
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The Month In Military Aviation: BUFFs, Bones, Hornets, Raptors, Lightnings, and Hawkeyes, Oh my!
From our friends at AirshowStuff comes this compilation of their best military aviation clips shot during August of 2017. There is something for everyone in this one! Live ordnance drops…
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Watch As American Heavy Iron Descends On The English Countryside To Battle Crosswinds
Royal Air Force (RAF) Fairford is one of the largest remaining stations with a regular American presence in the UK. In this video we first see an Airbus A400M Atlas…
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In Thrust We Trust: To Re-Engine Or Not To Re-Engine The B-52 Fleet…Is That Still The Question?
We already know that Boeing’s B-52 Stratofortress bombers will continue to serve for what is expected to be thirty more years…maybe even longer than that. The bombers are powered by…
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The B-52: Come Fly The Plane Your Grandfather Flew (And Your Son Might Fly Too)
The Boeing B-52: The Timeless One On 15 April 1952, Boeing test pilot “Tex” Johnson pulled back on the control yoke of the prototype YB-52 Stratofortress and she took to…
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Ear-Piercingly Loud B-52 Takeoff and Commentary Will Make Your Day
“Oh fantastic! Look at that.” The B-52 BUFF is one hell of a machine. With 8 ear-piercing turbojet engines and a smoke trail longer than the Marlboro Man, the BUFF…
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