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

But Boeing bombers had served the U.S. military well during World War II, and if LeMay got his way—and he usually did—the next big bomber would be another Boeing product: the B-52 Stratofortress.

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

A key facet of the B-52’s capability is its eight-engine power plant: four engines on each wing, two on each pylon, which gives the bomber global reach. The Pratt & Whitney TF33s have served in ...

One of the most widely known accidents that occurred during the Cold war was in 1966, where a B-52 bomber returning to North Carolina, Spain collided mid-air with a KC-135 tanker during a ...

MANILA/BANGKOK (AP): A Chinese fighter jet came within 10 feet of an American B-52 bomber flying over the South China Sea, nearly causing an accident, the U.S. military said, underscoring the ...

On Monday, April 11, 1983, a B-52G identified as LURE 75 and its companion ... But this was no ordinary aircraft.