Photo taken at the Wings Over The Rockies Museum at the former Lowry AFB which is located on the outskirts of Denver.
She is Boeing RB-52B Stratofortress serial 52-0005 which is on display outside the museum, she is displayed in 93rd BW markings.
Photo taken at the Wings Over The Rockies Museum at the former Lowry AFB which is located on the outskirts of Denver.
A closer side view of RB-52B 52-0005 showing off the smooth white podded jet engines.
Photo taken at the Wings Over The Rockies Museum at the former Lowry AFB which is located on the outskirts of Denver.
A closer side view of RB-52B 52-0005 showing a very stress wrinkled BUFF forward fuselage section.
This RB-52B was only the 15th 'BUFF' produced. On the 21st May 1956 she dropped a 3.75 megatons Mk.15 hydrogen bomb, the first time that a B-52 had been used as a carrier and drop plane for this truly terrifying weapon.
This RB-52B was only the 15th 'BUFF' produced. She dropped a 3.75 megatons Mk.15 hydrogen bomb, the first time that a B-52 had been used as a carrier and drop plane for this truly terrifying weapon.