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Planning For 80-Year Old B-52s

Posted by Hemos on Sunday December 16, 2001 @05:25AM from the keep-'em-going dept.

Merry_B.Buck writes "The B-52 Stratofortress, famous for its carpet bombing (or, as the Pentagon prefers, "long sticking") was designed in the 1940s to carry boxcar-sized atomic bombs. This Fast Company analysis describes how the US plans to keep these planes -- the youngest of which was built in 1962 -- flying until 2040. "

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And some whackos are using a 30+ year old OS by Anonymous Coward · 2001-12-16 05:27 · Score: 5, Funny

And they're thinking about CONTINUING to do so until Hell freezes over!
No surpise here by roguerez · 2001-12-16 09:50 · Score: 2, Funny

They are definitely out of the running in 2040, because by then they (and other planes, cars and industry) will have used up the last bit of fossil fuels on this earth. So it couldn't even fly longer even it they wanted to.