I was raised is southern Texas and later in southern MS. Is MS we had a radar station the was used for bombing practice and accuracy testing for SAC. We saw BUFF’s every day at
Low levels with bay door open. Great times!

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These improvements, including new avionics, will allow these planes to remain in the air for over a century…amazing!

They would have to bring A LOT of sandwiches!

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Originally posted by CD228:
I wanna say there was SAC base in Rome NY, I think it had B-52s.

Griffiss, I grew up about an hour away. It was closed under BRAC about 30 years ago.

http://strategic-air-command.c...ases/Griffis_AFB.htm

A B-52G is still on display there:

https://www.rbogash.com/Griffiss/griff_b52.html

That's where the video I posted was filmed. I was there from 88-90.

I always heard that the moniker for the F111 was Aardvark. The B58 was the first model airplane I ever built as a kid. I finally got to see a real one when I moved to Tucson. It’s on display at Pima.

New engines and new avionics make it still relevant. My good friend was a Buff driver before moving to the B1 and his last posting was the B2 out of Whiteman.

The B52 is, without a doubt a beautiful example of American engineering and will live a long productive life. But a B1B is more sexy,

I was stationed at Barksdale 1999-2002...got to walk the flightline quite a few times, including when "generation assured"...climbed up into a few of them...just awesome.

The B-1 does do a fantastic afterburner takeoff!