[C19fan]

The only bad part of a re-engine is no more black smoke coming from those B-52s at takeoff. :0

[knarf]

Looks like some 2 minute film clip that effectively shows a LOT of the comments here ..

If you let it play through, the next one auto plays .. Minimum Interval Take Off (real footage)

[RayChuang88]

The reason for the re-engine proposal is not only eliminating the smoke contrails, but also more power at takeoff (220,000 lb. thrust from four F103's versus 144,000 lb. thrust from eight TF33's) and way lower fuel consumption. Just the more engine power makes it easier to carry the massive GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator bomb that weighs 30,000 lb., some 8,000 lb. more than the famous World War II Grand Slam bomb.

[wjcsux]

The only bad part of a re-engine is no more black smoke coming from those B-52s at takeoff. :0

If I remember correctly, only the B-52 G and H had TF-33's. I think the B, C, D and F models had Pratt J-57's. D-M had a Buff Squadron in the early sixties. As kids, we loved watching them blow out bunches of black smoke as they took off.