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Boeing B-52 Stratofortress model airplane

The prototype XB-52 took to the air for the first time on April 15, l952. The B-52G, which was planned initially as the final version of the airplane pending arrival of the B-70, brought along a host of major improvements, and was the biggest single advance of any model. The airframe was substantially redesigned to save weight and to make it safer; integral wing-tanks greatly increased fuel capacity; the tail gunner was relocated in the crew compartment, thus saving considerable weight; the fin was shortened; and provision was made for launching ECM decoys and standoff missiles. The decoy was a small jet plane known as the Quail, designed to have a radar signature similar to that of the bomber to confuse missile radar. 193 of the B-52Gs were built, the last airplane in 1960. The B-52G was actually less a bomber than the first stage of a missile. There were a total of 744 B-52s built; the last plane, a B-52H, rolled out of the Wichita plant in June, 1962. This last version was powered by eight 17,000-lb thrust Pratt & Whitney TF33-P-3 turbofans, giving it a maximum speed at optimum altitude of 595 mph, with an incredible unrefuelled maximum range of 10,000 miles! Airplane armament was one remotely-controlled 20-mm Vulcan cannon in tail turret, plus up to 20 AGM-86 ALCMs and nuclear free fall bombs.

Though long since considered obsolete as a result of its unacceptable vulnerability to surface-to-air missiles, the mighty B-52 has seen three would-be successors (the XB-70, the B-1, and the B-2) fall by the wayside, and remains one of the three legs of the U. S. nuclear triad (the other two being land-launched missiles and sea-launched missiles). At this point the B-52 has probably had the longest career of any front-line combat airplane.

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Dimensions: Wingspan, 22 1/4" -Length, 19" -Scale, 1/100

#B1610B3W (Euro scheme) - Air Corps Price $119.95 - Ground shipping just $4.98 to anywhere in the continental U.S.

#B7510B3W (dk grey) - Air Corps Price $119.95 - Ground shipping just $4.98 to anywhere in the continental U.S.

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Dimensions: Wingspan, 19 1/2" -Length, 17" -Scale, 1/110

AM023-AR (Euro scheme) - Air Corps Price $128.95 - Ground shipping just $4.98 to anywhere in the continental U.S.

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