The BUFF upgrade

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

 

[Blackwater 53393]

Higher! Farther! Faster!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

…and less expensive!

[Texas Lizard]

Went into the Air Force in 65,  just out of HS...Learned to repair the main radar system on the bird....And it is still flying today....Hope they up dated that part also...We were still using vacuum tubes in some of the electronics....

 

Texas Lizard

 

Summer months working on them was not fun....

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

With a larger payload.

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

Just now, Texas Lizard said:

Went into the Air Force in 65,  just out of HS...Learned to repair the main radar system on the bird....And it is still flying today....Hope they up dated that part also...We were still using vacuum tubes in some of the electronics....

 

Texas Lizard

 

Summer months working on them was not fun....

Probably upgraded more than once.

[Texas Lizard]

38 minutes ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:

Probably upgraded more than once.

I have feeling that all of parts I fixed...Now fit into laptop computer....Except for radar antenna.....Need more space.....

 

Texas Lizard

[Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770]

[Buckshot Bear]

My wife and I went inside one in the late '80's at Sydney Airport when the USAF had a small open day......was a cool thing and I never forgot how cool!

[Chantry]

10 hours ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:

Probably upgraded more than once.

The joke is that everything inside the B-52 has been replaced at least once....except for the seat cushions.

 

I've read that in some families at least two generations of pilots have been B-52 pilots.

[Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770]

26 minutes ago, Chantry said:

The joke is that everything inside the B-52 has been replaced at least once....except for the seat cushions.

kind of like the guy that claimed to have Abe Lincoln's ax. Handle's been replaced three times, the head twice.

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

10 minutes ago, Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 said:

kind of like the guy that claimed to have Abe Lincoln's ax. Handle's been replaced three times, the head twice.

Same wedges though.

[Chickasaw Bill SASS #70001]

The B52 

 

a flying 1911 

 

  CB 

[Trailrider #896]

I've told my doctors I intend to live until the B-52's were retired in 2050, when I would be 108. Now, with the B-52J's extending beyond that, I'll have to up my expiration date!  The new engines will not only result in increased payload, but better fuel economy. Electronic upgrades will also make the BUFF better able to stay out of contested airspace with longer range attack weapons. The biggest problem facing the -J is, as always, budget problems. But that will be solved by Congress, I'm sure.