An indication of the service life of the B-52 would be to imagine the Air Force flying operational missions in Vietnam with the Wright Military Flyer!
We oughta replace em with 747’s for a bigger payload. Carpet bombing is needed in several areas.
“An indication of the service life of the B-52 would be to imagine the Air Force flying operational missions in Vietnam with the Wright Military Flyer!”
A Wright flyer with vastly improved avionics, air defense, engines, and flight crew.
The B52 of today is vastly more capable than the early models. The airframe itself is largely the same but then the laws of physics and aerodynamics haven’t changed much since 1950.
Amazing.