The pictures below link to displays
with more B-52 photos.
Boeing B-52 Stratofortress Displays |
The pictures below link to displays
with more B-52 photos.
Boeing B-52
Stratofortresses of the sixties and seventies.
Boeing B-52
Stratofortresses of the eighties.
Boeing B-52
Stratofortresses of the nineties.
Boeing B-52
Stratofortresses in the 21st Century.
Boeing B-52 Stratofortresses
in the Boneyard.
The fastest airplanes ever flown, the X-15s,
were launched from a pair of B-52 Stratofortresses.
For a more detailed history of the X-15
program, check out the X-15 - Forty
Years Ago displays.
One
of these B-52s, the NB-52B, 52-0008 went
on to launch the HL-10, M2-F2/F3 and X-24A/B lifting bodies.
After the last flight of the X-24B in 1975, the NB-52B launched 3/8 scale F-15 remotely
piloted research vehicles, Highly Maneuverable Aircraft
Technology drones, Drones for Aeroelastic Structures Testing, the
parachute recovery system for the Space Shuttle solid fuel
boosters, the parachute recovery system for the F-111 crew escape
module, and satellites into orbit on Orbital Sciences' Pegasus
boosters.
The
NB-52B is still operating at the NASA Dryden Flight Research
Center at Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave Desert of
California. It is currently used to launch the X-38, a lifting body test vehicle
for the International Space Station Crew Return Vehicle (CRV).
The CRV will be used to provide a means of returning from the
space station to Earth without the need for a Space Shuttle
launch.
The
NB-52B launched the X-38
Crew Return Vehicle on its sixth free flight on November 2,
2000
The NB-52B carried the X-38 Crew Return Vehicle
aloft on Friday, June 29 in an attempt to launch the seventh
mission of the test program.
The NB-52B launched the X-38 Crew Return Vehicle
on its seventh mission on Tuesday, July 10, 2001.
The NB-52B is
currently launching a series of tests of the 6,000 mile per hour
supersonic combustion ramjet test drone called the X-43A Hyper-X.
The X-43A Hyper-X
supersonic combustion ramjet testbed was launched on its first
free flight on Saturday, June 2, 2001.
The second X-43A Hyper-X mission was launched from NASA's NB-52B
mothership on Saturday, March 27. It was dropped from the NB-52B about
fifty miles from the coast of Southern California. The mission
demonstrated the feasibility of air-breathing powered flight at mach-7.
The third X-43A Hyper-X demonstrated that an air-breathing engine can
propel a vehicle at Mach-10 on the afternoon of November 16, 2004.
The Hyper-X flight was conducted out of the NASA Dryden Flight
Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base in California's Mojave Desert.
The third X-43A Hyper-X mission did not go off
without a hitch. Problems with the GPS or inertial navigation system of the X-43A resulted
in a mission abort on Monday. Here is the story of two days at Edwards Air Force Base
covering the final X-43A mission.
Take a detailed look at the NB-52B as it appeared at its retirement ceremony. Read the history of the airplane as revealed by the mission marks running along the side of its fuselage. Illustrations are provided to assist in the construction of a model of the NB-52B.
NASA's Boeing NB-52B Stratofortress Mothership was retired in a ceremony at the Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base on Friday December 17, 2004. The NB-52B has been a fixture at Edwards AFB for forty-nine years.
You can buy a 2008 Calendar featuring my photographs of Boeing B-52 Stratofortresses.
A dozen photos of Boeing B-52 Stratofortresses in flight.
Stratofortresses pictured include:
B-52D 56-0612, March Air Force Base, February 23, 1978;
B-52H 60-0050, Edwards Air Force Base, November 9, 1986, October 23, 1988, October 9, 1999;
B-52G 58-0183, Saline Valley, October 25, 1989;
B-52G 57-6519, Edwards Air Force Base, October 29, 1989;
B-52G 59-2565, Castle Air Force Base, September 17, 1992;
B-52H 60-0008, Nellis Air Force Base, April 25, 1997;
B-52H 61-0023, Nellis Air Force Base, February 1, 2002;
NASA NB-52B 52-0008/X-43A Hyper-X, Edwards Air Force Base, November 16, 2004;
B-52H 60-0026, Naval Air Station Pt Mugu, March 29, 2007;
and Rockwell B-1B Lancer 85-0068, Edwards Air Force Base, October 9, 1999
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You can buy a 2008 calendar featuring my photographs of Boeing B-52G Stratofortresses of the 93rd Bomb Wing at Castle Air Force Base.
A dozen photos of Boeing B-52G Stratofortresses of the 93rd Bomb Wing flying at Castle Air Force Base in 1992 and 1993. Stratofortresses pictured include:
B-52G 57-6473
B-52G 58-0214
B-52G 58-0258
B-52G 59-2565
B-52G 59-5888
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