Mary Shafer wrote:
On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 11:56:14 -0500, Michael Zaharis
wrote:
Will they eventually retire the final -B carrier and rely fully on the -H?


I don't understand what you mean by "the final -B" here. There is
only one NB-52B, 008. Its predecessor, 006, was the NB-52A and it's
at Davis-Monthan now.

In any even, yes, we will eventually retire 008 and rely on the new
NB-52H.

Mary

I was referring to 008. I hadn't remembered the first NB-52 was an -A.
I thought that they were both -B's.

Actually, I was down at the Pima Air Museum a few weeks ago, showing the
NB-52A, among other aircraft, to my wife and sons. The older son, who
is 3, was thoroughly unimpressed, other than repeatedly uttering the
words "Big airplane!".