In what would become known as “the Christmas bombings” in America and “the 11 days and nights” in Vietnam (no bombing took place on Christmas day), swathes of Hanoi were obliterated. In August 2007, a B-52H ferrying AGM-129 ACM cruise missiles from Minot Air Force Base to Barksdale Air Force Base for dismantling was mistakenly loaded with six missiles with their nuclear warheads. The weapons did not leave USAF custody and were secured at Barksdale. [219] [220] On 18 June 1965, two B-52Fs (57‑0047 and 57‑0179) collided mid-air during a refueling maneuver at 33,000 feet (10,000m) above the South China Sea. The head-on collision took place just northwest of the Luzon Peninsula, Philippines, in the night sky above Super Typhoon Dinah, a category 5 storm with maximum winds of 185mph (298km/h) and waves reported as high as 70 feet (21m). Both aircraft were from the same squadron ( 441st Bombardment Squadron) of the 7th Bombardment Wing, Carswell AFB, Texas and assigned to 3960th Strategic Wing operating out of Andersen AFB, Guam. Eight of twelve total crew members in two planes were killed. The rescue of four crew members who had managed to eject only to parachute into one of the largest typhoons of the 20th century remains one of the most remarkable survival stories in the history of aviation. The crash was the first combat mission ever for the B-52. [273] [283] The two jets were part of a 30-plane deployment on an inaugural Operation Arc Light mission to a military target about 25 miles (40km) northwest of Saigon, South Vietnam. [284] [285] [286] Then there’s Moonman 157 and Klara Sax, a feminist ideal of Land Art (ambition, work crews, the endless real estate of the west). What do they have in common? Genealogy. The graffiti is first; Klara’s more culturally legitimated art comes after. To graffiti is to bomb. He bombs train cars, she bombs bombers, defunct B-52s. Moonman announces himself to the commuters who see his work flash by, the people on the 5:10 to Dreamland. Klara Sax talks into the twin vacuums of historical time and the desert. She’s going larger-scale, and for a more abstract audience.

US aircrew said they looked like telephone poles with lights and would illuminate the entire night sky.The eight engines of the B-52 are paired in pods and suspended by four pylons beneath and forward of the wings' leading edge. The careful arrangement of the pylons also allowed them to work as wing fences and delay the onset of stall. The first two prototypes, XB-52 and YB-52, were both powered by experimental Pratt & Whitney YJ57-P-3 turbojet engines with 8,700 pounds-force (39kN) of static thrust each. [101] Subsonic-cruise unarmed decoy: SCUD resembled the B-52 on the radar. As an active decoy, it carried ECM and other devices, and it had a range of several hundred miles. Although SCUD was never deployed operationally, the concept was developed, becoming known as the air-launched cruise missile (ALCM-A). Before the work on the next album the band took a one-year break during which Fred Schneider released his debut solo album Fred Schneider and the Shake Society. Unfortunately, before it could relay its decision to the White House, it was already too late; Nixon had reached the end of his tether. At 8 p.m., Hanoi time, that same day, the United States commenced its most savage bombing of the North to date,” Asselin wrote. Ray, Mike W. (8 January 2014). "B-52 upgrade to increase smart-weapons capacity". USAF. Archived from the original on 8 February 2023.

Defense Industry Daily staff (12 May 2014). "CONECT: B-52H Reach Digital Age with Communications Upgrades". Defense Industry Daily . Retrieved 1 March 2023. On 24 March 1999, when Operation Allied Force began, B-52 bombers bombarded Serb targets throughout the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, including during the Battle of Kosare. [205] The album debuted at No.11 on the Billboard charts in the U.S., immediately making it the second-highest charting B-52s album ever. The band toured in support of the album and made appearances on talk shows, including The Tonight Show and The Ellen DeGeneres Show, and performed on The Today Show on Memorial Day 2008. They also participated in the True Colors Tour 2008 with Cyndi Lauper and embarked on a European tour in July.Billboard Hot 100 Chart Listing For The Week Of November 18, 1989". Billboard. Archived from the original on July 10, 2015 . Retrieved August 12, 2016. AGM-183A Air-Launched Rapid Response (ARRW) hypersonic missile and the future Long Range Stand Off (LRSO) nuclear-armed air-launched cruise missile will join the B-52 inventory in the future. [122] Engines [ edit ] USAF B-52H Stratofortress engines On 11 February 1958, B-52D (56-0610) crashed short of the runway at Ellsworth AFB, South Dakota, due to total loss of power during final approach. Two of the eight crewmembers on board were killed in addition to three ground personnel. The crash was determined to be from frozen fuel lines that clogged fuel filters. It was previously unknown that jet fuel absorbs water vapor from the atmosphere. After this accident, over two hundred previous aircraft losses listed as "cause unknown" were attributed to frozen fuel lines. [271] [272] It was the operation that ended the Vietnam conflict and that freed our 591 POWs,” he said. (Those American prisoners of war were released in February and March after the accords were signed.) They say that by late 1972 Hanoi’s war effort was already on shaky ground. Resources were low, and it would not have been able to sustain its war effort much longer.

The 100 Best Albums of the Eighties". Rolling Stone. No.565. November 16, 1989. Citation posted at "100 Best Albums of the Eighties: 29 | John Lennon and Yoko Ono, 'Double Fantasy' ". rollingstone.com. Archived from the original on November 23, 2007 . Retrieved October 20, 2009. Originally posted January 21, 1997. On 29 March 1957, B-52C (54-2676) retained by Boeing and used for tests as JB-52C, crashed during Boeing test flight from Wichita, Kansas. Two of the four crew on board were killed. [270] Pawlyk, Oriana (12 February 2018). "To Make Way for Future Bomber, AF Plans to Retire B-1, B-2 in 2030s". Military.com.

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Like the rudder, the elevator is also very narrow chord and the B-52 suffers from limited elevator control authority. For long-term pitch trim and airspeed changes the aircraft uses a stabilator (or all-moving tail) with the elevator used for small adjustments within a stabilizer setting. The stabilizer is adjustable through 13 degrees of movement (nine up, four down) and is crucial to operations during takeoff and landing due to large pitch changes induced by flap application. [101]

RIAA Gold and Platinum Album Database". Riaa.com. Archived from the original on June 26, 2007 . Retrieved December 10, 2011. Underworld is a novel, quite simply, about what was experienced in the United States in the second half of the 20th century. An era shaped by the advent and then cancellation of the Bretton Woods agreement. Nuclear proliferation. The withering away and relocation of American manufacturing, and the rise of global capitalism. Jazz. The Cuban missile crisis (through the voice, as DeLillo has it, of Lenny Bruce). Civil rights. The CIA. Bombs on university campuses. Artists on New York rooftops, and around them, the old industrial framework of bygone city life, something aesthetic and exotic, either marvelled at or ignored. Tragically, some believe all these deaths were largely in vain, with historians to this day debating the extent of the operation’s influence on the wider conflict.The nun who frets that if the children forget to wear their dog tags, they won’t be saved from nuclear annihilation. Soon after, Cindy Wilson amicably departed. "I'd been a B-52 for a long time, and it just felt like time for a change," said Cindy. Before long, Wilson had successfully completed her first solo project — a baby girl. Meanwhile, Kate collaborated with other artists, including Athens compatriots R.E.M., for whom she guest-starred on their 1991 album Out of Time. She also scored a hit with fellow CBGB's alum Iggy Pop on his lovelorn duet "Candy." Fred, meanwhile started work on a solo project, Just Fred (1996), with producer Steve Albini, his second solo project since the release of 1984’s Fred Schneider and the Shake Society. In fact, the toll on the US forces had been such that it had forced Nixon to beg Hanoi to resume the peace talks, and to unilaterally and unconditionally end the bombing,” he wrote. The symphonic sequence of the baseball game seen through the lens of Whitman … Photograph: Tony Tomsic/MLB Photos via Getty Images