Citat:A new active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar from Raytheon that will be installed on the B-52H bomber might allow the U.S. Air Force to reduce the number of people operating the bomber from five to four.
Jedan vracen u upotrebu. Izvadjen iz pustinje nakon 10 godina da se dopuni broj od obaveznih 76.
Citat:After logging more than 17,000 flight hours, “Wise Guy” was retired at the 309th AMARG (Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group) at Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona, in 2008. In the cockpit, an anonymous note read: “AMARG, this is 60-034, a cold warrior that stood sentinel over America from the darkest days of the Cold War to the global fight against terror. Take good care of her….until we need her again.”
The aircraft was supposed to remain there be cannibalized of parts needed by front-line BUFFs and never to fly again. But the plan changed more or less at 08.30AM LT on May 19, 2016, when a B-52H Stratofortress bomber belonging to the 69th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron, crashed during take off from Andersen AFB, in Guam. Althought the 7 people on board escaped safely from the aircraft, shortly thereafter, the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center was asked to regenerate an aircraft from storage at AMARG to restore the fleet to the Congressional-mandated 76 aircraft.
And “Wise Guy” was selected to fill the vacancy and to be resurrected after 10 years at the “Boneyard”.
“Wise Guy” was selected and some pre-planning and structural inspections began December 2018 in preparations for a formal kick off January 2019. The inspections were completed by the 76th Expeditionary Depot Maintenance Flight, a part of the 76th Aircraft Maintenance Group, at OC-ALC, and a contract non-destructive inspection team from Boeing, says an official release.
A team of 13 to 20 maintainers worked on the B-52 at AMARG, to prepare it to be moved to Barksdale AFB for further repairs, a move that could be successfully completed on May 14, 2019.
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The Only Two B-52 Bombers To Be Resurrected From The “Boneyard” Parked Nose-to-Nose at Tinker AFB https://theaviationist.com/2021/03/05/the-only-two.....inker-afb/ Citat:B-52H Stratofortress bombers "Wise Guy," left, and "Ghost Rider," right, sit nose-to-nose with Tinker Air Force Base and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, in the background, Feb. 26, 2021.
