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CCIP · 02-17-15, 09:01 PM

A very cool story for all you warbird lovers

http://www.warbirdsnews.com/warbirds...ost-rider.html

For the first time, an old B-52 has been taken out of storage in the Boneyard and returned to flying status, with the aim of re-entering frontline service by 2016. The B-52H "Ghost Rider", originally built in 1961, was decommissioned and arrived at Davis-Monthan for storage in 2008 - but after another B-52 was damaged beyond repair recently, the USAF has requisitioned the old bird, and last Friday she took to the air!

Rock on, Ghost Rider

02-17-15, 09:01 PM	#1
CCIP Navy Seal Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Waterloo, Canada Posts: 8,700 Downloads: 29 Uploads: 2	Ghostrider returns - an old B-52 recommissioned for service A very cool story for all you warbird lovers http://www.warbirdsnews.com/warbirds...ost-rider.html For the first time, an old B-52 has been taken out of storage in the Boneyard and returned to flying status, with the aim of re-entering frontline service by 2016. The B-52H "Ghost Rider", originally built in 1961, was decommissioned and arrived at Davis-Monthan for storage in 2008 - but after another B-52 was damaged beyond repair recently, the USAF has requisitioned the old bird, and last Friday she took to the air! Rock on, Ghost Rider __________________ There are only forty people in the world and five of them are hamburgers. -Don Van Vliet (aka Captain Beefheart)