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Bill would give US vets of 1966 Spain hydrogen bomb accident benefits 1 hour ago This Jan. 17, 1966, file photo, shows part of the wreckage of the U.S. Air Force B-52 that crashed in Palomares, Spain, after a mid-air collision with a KC-135 aerial tanker during refueling. (AP Photo) “The nuclear disaster in Palomares caused untold suffering and harm to the servicemembers sent in to clean up radioactive material without adequate protective gear or warning of severe health risks,” Blumen...

US Air Force/Airman Jonah Fronk The Air Force is divesting B-1B bombers, aiming to retire the fleet by the end of the 2030s. The bombers are considered "the workhorse of the Air Force today." At least one of the outgoing bombers will find new life as a lab to help keep other B-1s flying. In February, the Air Force announced that it will begin retiring the B-1B Lancer from service by divesting 17 bombers from the fleet of 62. The divestment is being done to cut cost...

What if America Sold B-52 Bombers To Israel? Its a silly little proposal with approximately zero chance of actually being implemented. But lets imagine if it were real. Heres What You Need to Know: It would be dumb for Washington to offer B-52s. In April 2014, retired Air Force lieutenant general David Deptula and Michael Makovsky of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs penned an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal arguing that the United States should turn over a dozen surplus...

Saudi Arabias Dhahran Air Base Attacked by Yemeni Houtis

Saudi Arabias Dhahran Air Base Attacked by Yemeni Houtis Our Bureau 1805 Attack on Saudis Dhahran Air Base (via Twitter) Yemens Houti rebels attacked Dhahran Air Base used by the Royal Saudi Air Force soon after a pair of U.S. B-52H bombers flew over the Mideast as a “warning” to Tehran. It is not clear what type of missiles were used in the alleged attacks. Both Iran and the U.S. are yet to comment on the matter. Spokesman of the Yemeni armed forces, Brigadier General Yahya Saree, said ...

The U.S. military’s Central Command said the two B-52s flew over the region accompanied by military aircraft from nations including Israel, Saudi Arabia and Qatar.

Hark!, including adding a pandemic-inspired track, the searching “Christmas In April.” Most gratifyingly for the singer-songwriter, he was able to make an album he first conceived of in 1997: an unvarnished collaboration with the Zippers’ Jimbo Mathus. Out March 5, These 13 is a moving, gospel-rooted culmination of an artistic partnership that first began in 1994, one that sees both Bird and Mathus in peak form. Before the album dropped, The A.V. Club spoke with Bird about this long-ge...

US Air Force/Paul Shirk Take a look at these interesting images of two B-52 bombers undergoing maintenance at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma. "Wise Guy" and "Ghost Rider," as theyre called, are the only B-52s to be resurrected from the Air Forces "boneyard." As reported in detail in the last few months, only two US Air Force B-52 Stratofortress bombers have been restored out of the "Boneyard," at the 309th AMARG (Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group) at ...

By   Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on March 01, 2021 at 1:26 PM A B-52 bomber carrying the ARRW. First, Michael White warned, future tests must not be marred by sloppy mistakes: “If [for example], we forgot how to do a checklist and tighten a pin on a fin, and we lose a flight vehicle because our fin falls off, that’s not acceptable failure. …. Quite frankly, we’ve got a ways to go. I’m not going to be satisfied with the health of the industrial base until we are routinely, successfully ...

It was brief and it was dark, but the flyover of three U.S. Air Force bombers in formation at Super Bowl LV signaled more to the world than just a fleeting flyby.