Old airplanes never die,

[birdguy 3,943]

They just get new engines from Rolls Royce.

https://www.defensenews.com/air/2022/03/08/heres-how-21st-century-design-is-giving-60-year-old-b-52s-a-new-lease-on-life/

Noel

[Fielder 3,673]

they don't fade away... The Air Force announced in September that Rolls-Royce had received the $2.6 billion Commercial Engine Replacement Program contract to keep the B-52 flying into the 2050s — roughly 100 years after the first B-52 was flown"

Plane of the Century!

Amateur's on Youtube... keeping the strum simple to stay on melody and the beat.

 

[himmelhorse 1,276]

This is the sort of music I envisage Chock to be playing.  I would love to hear him have a crack at it. LOL

Great tune by the way.

Tony

[Mace 1,927]

Used to have a SAC base near me (Eaker AFB) until 1992.  Back around 1983 I visited the place with the Boy Scouts.  I was only 10 years old at the time and was not really a Boy Scout yet, but I had pull.  Anyway, they kept a certain number of B-52's spooled up, ready to go at a moments notice 24/7.  You could see those big tails moving around in the distance, like a birddog on a scent, always moving.  This was still the Brezhnev/Andropov era and the Cold War was still very much hot.

They even let us inside a B-52 that was parked on the tarmac.  I don't know how or why - maybe it was slated for upgrading and there wasn't anything inside that we didn't need to see -- but at any rate, it had a padded inside fuselage, which I suppose was to help prevent injury during evasive maneuvers.  

Today Eaker is a fraction of what it once was.  I went there again in 2018 and was shocked at what I saw.  Even the gymnasium where we "camped" in 1983 was run down to the point of ruin.  And today, instead of B-52's parked one after the other, now it has dozens of Delta and Eva Air MD-80's parked there...a boneyard.

[TuFun 435]

I worked on the same B-52's at the same Air Base with the same AFSC 2A633 as my dad after he retired (22yrs), one year before I entered.

[Fielder 3,673]

7 hours ago, himmelhorse said:

This is the sort of music I envisage Chock to be playing.  I would love to hear him have a crack at it. LOL

Great tune by the way.

Tony

Mega Dittos! I thought of Chock's guitar when I saw the video and uploaded it.

[GaryK 201]

On 3/10/2022 at 3:47 AM, Fielder said:

they don't fade away... The Air Force announced in September that Rolls-Royce had received the $2.6 billion Commercial Engine Replacement Program contract to keep the B-52 flying into the 2050s — roughly 100 years after the first B-52 was flown"

Plane of the Century!

Amateur's on Youtube... keeping the strum simple to stay on melody and the beat.

 

Always a pleasure to see something by the Grateful Dead live😉😁

[Fielder 3,673]

My message here is off topic, but they still argue over why Buddy Holly's plane crashed. Dueling youtube videos on the subject.