#Boeing B-52

[lonestarflight]

Cancelled Missions: X-15 Blue Scout

"American air-launched orbital launch vehicle. In March 1962, NASA proposed an orbital launch vehicle using the B-52/X-15 combination. A Blue Scout booster would be fitted to an extendable launch rail on the belly of the X-15. The X-15 would be air-launched from the B-52, and then itself air-launch the Blue Scout well above the earth's atmosphere.

Status: Design 1962.

The proposal was rejected due to concerns over safety and economics (despite it being promoted as a low-cost launch system)."

Information from Astronautix.com: link

source, source

[stone-cold-groove]

Whooeee! She’s bigger than Texas!

[nocternalrandomness]

American Bomber Triad

[readyfor-takeoff]

First time: Boeing B-52 Stratofortress ✈️

[flying-tiger-123]

Boeing B-52 mother ship and North American X-15 Rocketplane model

[lovelyrobin]

The second sketch in my new sketchbook. The proportions are a little wonky, but I like it. Boeing B-52 Stratofortress.

[enriquemzn262]

Boeing B-52 Stratofortress conducting minimum interval takeoffs (MITO), an aircraft scramble technique designed to put as many aircraft in the sky as quickly as possible.

Gotta love those old smoky Pratt & Whitney J57 turbojets!

[nelc]

[usafphantom2]

B-52

@violetpilot1 via X

[dronescapesvideos]

B 52 "The Buff" Stratofortress, And The Evolution Of Giant U.S. Bombers ➤➤ VIDEO: https://youtu.be/BhzFiSniXjA

[histrorybygosh]

B-52 Stratofortress

Power plant: Eight Pratt & Whitney engines TF33-P-3/103 turbofan Armament: Approximately 70,000 pounds mixed ordnance -- bombs, mines and missiles

Speed: 650 mph

Range: 8,800 miles

Crew: Five (aircraft commander, pilot, radar navigator, navigator and electronic warfare officer)

[lonestarflight]

"The second free-flight test of an evolving series of X-38 prototypes took place July 10, 2001 when the X-38 was released from NASA's B-52 mothership over the Edwards Air Force Base range in California's Mojave Desert. Shortly after the photo was taken, a sequenced deployment of a drogue parachute followed by a large parafoil fabric wing slowed the X-38 to enable it to land safely on Rogers Dry Lake at Edwards. NASA engineers from the Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards, and the Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas, are developing a 'lifeboat' for the International Space Station based on X-38 research."

Date: July 10, 2001

NASA ID: EC01-0204-2

[stone-cold-groove]

How America can continue to have aircraft that are second to none.

[nocternalrandomness]

"Barksdale Buff"

[compacflt]

re: them going viral

i think it would make ice disintegrate to open up twitter and see something like

@bigboybussy49: OMG GUYS COUPLE GOALS THEY'VE BEEN TOGETHER FOR 36 YRSSS!!!! 😫🏳️‍🌈

yes, and:

@TKazansky: Wrote a piece for @theAtlantic about the US Military’s recent commitment to ensuring safe working conditions for active-duty LGBT service members at home and abroad. Diversity has always been this country’s greatest strength & we must recognize it as our military’s greatest asset. Read more below: [theatlantic.whatever/ret-SECNAV-Tom-Kazansky-on-lgbt-service-members.062322.whatever] [45 replies / 86 rts / 1,275 likes]

well-meaning Twitter rando: [replying to @TKazansky:] still war crimes sir

ice: well that’s enough social media for this month i think

[lonestarbattleship]

"What your favorite Bomber says about you" by historyinthedark: link