When Michael Riggs started work on the Boeing B-52 programme almost 20 years ago, the newly-hired engineering graduate expected Boeing would soon move him off the Stratofortress programme.

Few aircraft have the storied history of the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress. Designed during the early Cold War, this legendary bomber has adapted to serve for over 100 years. In this video ...

Manufacturer: Boeing Military Airplane Co. Power plant ... and an icon of the United States’ Cold War deterrent, the B-52 Stratofortress was for decades the U.S. Air Force’s primary strategic ...

When General Nathan Twining, chief of staff of the U.S. Air Force from 1953 to 1957, called the Boeing B-52 “the ... foil for popular music, the Stratofortress is a military and cultural fixture. The ...

That the B-52 Stratofortress is still in service for the U.S. Air Force is something of a minor miracle. Designed by Boeing, the 160-foot-long strategic bombers weren’t much to look at when the ...

In 1955, when the first Boeing B-52 Stratofortress became operational, nobody would have imagined that the plane could remain in service for nearly 100 years. Today that's exactly what the US Air ...

With the landing at a Boeing Co., facility in San Antonio, of a B-52 Stratofortress bomber assigned to the 307th Bomb Wing from Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana, the Air Force’s B-52 Radar ...

The B-52 Stratofortress first flew on April 15 ... And it does an impressive fly-over for sporting events and air shows. Boeing plants in Seattle and Wichita, Kan., built 744 of the bombers ...

Boeing relies on Fortnite technology to upgrade the B-52. A popular 3D computer graphics ... is helping Boeing in the upgrade of the iconic Stratofortress bombers to the B-52J standard.

The B-52 was the U.S. Air Force’s main long-range heavy bomber during the Cold War, and continues to be an important part of the bomber force today. Nearly 750 were built before production ...

In 1955, when the first Boeing B-52 Stratofortress became operational, nobody would have imagined that the plane could remain in service for nearly 100 years. Today that's exactly what the US Air ...