The enhanced B-52 platform is expected to play a critical role in the Air Force’s bomber strategy for years to come.

and if LeMay got his way—and he usually did—the next big bomber would be another Boeing product: the B-52 Stratofortress. The potential contract was huge, and U.S. aircraft manufacturers ...

The Air Force planned the B-52’s demise again in the mid- 1950s, after Boeing had built about 450 of the bombers. The service was pursuing two replacements: a supersonic bomber burning boron-dop ...

Back in St. George, at the newspaper offices, then located at 275 E. St. George Boulevard, Managing Editor Carrick Leavitt ...

Eventually, Boeing’s prototype was declared the winner and would become the B-52 bomber we know today. Over the next decade, the first B-52A iteration took to the skies, followed closely by the ...

One of the eight engines powering a Boeing B-52 bomber flying over Minot Air Force Base on Wednesday quite literally fell right off the aircraft. The unarmed aircraft, which was on a training ...

File photo: People view an Air Force Boeing B-52 Stratofortress at the Miramar Air ... The B-52H Stratofortress is a long-range, heavy bomber that can fly at altitudes of up to 50,000 feet and ...