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The B-52 used to have a tail gun and gunner!

Early models (A through F) used a quad-.50 caliber machine-gun turret with a dedicated gunner.

G and H models moved the gunner to the front main cabin firing the guns remotely.

In 1991, all tail guns were removed.

A U.S. Air Force Boeing B-52F-70-BW Stratofortress (s/n 57-0162, nicknamed "Casper The Friendly Ghost") from the 320th Bomb Wing dropping Mk 117 750 lb (340 kg) bombs over Vietnam. This aircraft was the first B-52F used to test conventional bombing in 1964, and later dropped the 50,000th bomb of the "Arc Light" campaign. B-52Fs could carry 51 bombs and served in Vietnam from June 1965 to April 1966 when they were replaced by "Big Belly" B-52Ds which could carry 108 bombs.

8 June 1959. First drop of the X-15: Flight 1-1.

8 June 1959. The first X-15 free-flight was an unpowered test flown by Scott Crossfield.

B-52’s on the Nevada Test Range

In June 1965, B-52Fs took off from Andersen on Guam for the first mission of Operation Arc Light.

27 Stratofortresses headed for the Vietcong area near Saigon and dropped over 500 tons of bombs. The tragic prelude was the collision of two B-52s over the South China Sea.

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The beautiful artwork of W.S. Phillips Aeronautics Art, Titled X-15 Hypersonic Final. #x15 #nasa #boneyardsafari #aviationsafari

Operation Arc Light B-52F