The forty-fourth testing and evaluation squadron revealed the completion of the B-52H Heritage, which is constructed by NB-52A and NB-52E.
A few months after it was first monitored with the new terrorist colors system, B-52H 61-0028 now received all the missing badges, and complete Amazing heritage orange. In fact, the official Facebook Pavilion page, the main operating suite of the US Air Force, released pictures of the full orange (Big Ugly Fat) shown during the last air exhibition at Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana, where its headquarters is located.
The plane was on a fixed screen on March 29 and 30, 2025, with a 49 test and evaluation squadron, which is what This is appointed B-52 specifiedRecently added to orange heritage. This includes the classic operating test “OT” Flash, the Wolfpack Squadron logo, the black arrow point on the tail and colored USAF.
“This terrorist design praises the legendary NB-52E while preserving our heritage alive,” a Facebook post. In a comment, the unit clarified that “TES 49 was inspired by several aircraft, including NB-52A, NB-52E, and X-1 icon,” adding that “Roundels on the Sides and” Usaf Signs “on the wings and wings in honor of the NB-52 paint paint.
Orange Heritage B-52
The reactionary “Statofortress’ reactionary” was discovered for the first time while the plane was taking off from the Tinker Air Force, Oklahoma, the home of the Oklahoma City Logistics complex, on September 30, 2024. Our friend Rob Stevens in Ridhoum AviationB-52, who photographed B-52, told us that B-52H 61-0028 reached Tinker AFB, most of them without paint and orange accuracy, on August 26, 2024, heading towards a special coating function.
the B-52H 61-0028 “Wolfpack” was an auditor body, wings near the pavilion groups, and the engine niasilis, and the vertical stabilizer in an orange color, on the opposite of the dark gray paint of the layer plane. As shown at the time, the detonator has not been given any signs, as the tail of “OT” and “49 TES”, the black arrow point on the tail, and the “American Air Force” were applied to the fuselage when returning to Barksdale AFB.
Specifically, Livery NB-52B 52-0008 is similar to the famous NB-52A 52-0003, but it is also inspired by NB-52E 56-0632 least well-known. When the first official photos were released on September 30, when the plane is Return to Barksdale“The orange test scheme was used to remind everyone of the amazing B-52 trip and the continuous progress of the US Air Force,” the service said.
Orange orange
In the middle of 1957, NASA made the decision to replace B-36 The peacemaker With Stratofortress B-52 as a launch plane for X-15 Hypersonic research program. B-36 was close to the end of her operational life, and it was expected that finding spare parts to keep them after retirement would be a challenge.
as X-15 project Two B-52 B-52 layers, NB-52A and NB-52B were chosen to serve as launch platforms. The NB-52B, which was appointed 52-0008 and the title of “The Challenger”, continued in this role until its last mission in November 2004, while NB-52A, known as “The High and Mighty One”, retired with tail No. 52-0003, earlier in 1969.
NB-52A was specifically the last and last B-52A that was built, and it was modified with liquid oxygen and pyoxide tanks installed in bombs of bombs, and it bore X-15 on 93 of the 1959 program journey of the program. Today, “The High and Mighty One” is still preserved and displayed in The Prame Bima Air and Space Museum In Arizona, with its distinctive orange signs.
NB-52B, initially designed as RB-52B and is used as a navigation test plane, which has been presented since 1959 as an air launch platform, is mainly working as a flight launch on 106 X-15 flights. It works at nine miles, providing missile aircraft that carried them with necessary fuel, gases and electric energy.
To deal with this role, the right wing of the plane has been strengthened and equipped with a Belon capable of carrying more than 50,000 pounds – nearly the fifth total weight of the plane. This made the classes the assets of decisive assets in various research efforts, including those that eventually contributed to the development of space shuttle.
In fact, one of the main contributions of NB-52B was helping to verify the health Space shuttleA sharp decline in slipping. This was accomplished by launching unjust lifting bodies, which showed that such a landing was possible. This was not the only contribution to the program, as the plane also played a vital role in testing umbrellas to restore solid missile reinforcements in shuttle and manipulating the clouds used during shuttle landing operations.
Despite its increased age and increased maintenance cost, NB-52B continued to support a wide range of advanced research throughout the 1970s and eighties of the last century, where drones, good vehicles were launched remotely, and experimental load. In addition to launch duties, NB-52B was used to search for a waking disorder, and it was a target of artillery exercises, and fuel additives aimed at reducing pollution were tested.
At one point, it flew with ten engines when additional engines were installed under the bomb bay for test purposes. During the X-38 program, the plane published the largest Paravoel in history, with a larger surface area than Boeing 747 wing.
The last NB-52B mission was established in 2004, when it launched X-43A, which reached the speed of Mach 9.6 using the most powerful air breathing engine ever. After a long and important profession that contributes to both aviation and space research, NB-52B was officially retired on December 17, 2004, during a party in NASA Draiden Aviation Research Center.
At a time when it was “Balls 8” (the title of NASA’s 52-008 tail, where the military vernacular refers to the leading zeros as “balls”) the oldest B-52 in the active and only service that was not the H. The H. It also had the lowest total flight hours of i B-52 operational. The plane is now permanently displayed near the North Base of Edwards Air Force Base in California.
It was NB-52E, Tail No. 56-0632, second B-52E produced, was widely modified to implement specialized development projects. Among its decisive contributions, studies on electronic and void repression systems, and the main research fields since several B-52S Void Because of the structural failure caused by dynamic pressure during low -level flights.
To combat these issues, NB-52E is provided with a small wing that washed away with the nose, and a long probe was extended from the nose. The wings are also equipped with twice the number of controls, and the traditional mechanical and hydraulic links are replaced by advanced electronic systems.
Inside the plane, wealth of measuring devices She supported her research mission. NB-52E later participated in the loading and stability project (LAMS), which aims to reduce fatigue damage caused by wind storms. Sensors installed on the discovered plane and measuring them, and automatically stimulates the control of the plane and relieves structural pressure. During the middle of 1973, NB-52E achieved a large milestone when 10 knots flew faster than the speed that was usually destroyed on the plane.
From the outside, the B-52E (as well as NB-52E) had a unique feature that distinguished it from D models: an additional window on the left side of the Bombardier/Navigation station, which was absent in D.
Today, NB-52E is located in “Boneyard” in the 309th Maintenance and Renewal Group in Arizona, after it has worked in the progress of aviation research. The NB-52E, who has played an effective role in the pioneer of wire control systems used in modern aviation, is the innovative spirit that continues to lead the B-52 update.