"Clark" wrote in message
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Ummm, no. The design life of the F-15 is about half of the current average
hours on the B-52 fleet. It took less than 2 minutes to google that up.

I suspect you'll try to nitpick this, McNicoll. Don't. Just accept the
fact that you are wrong again.


I suspect you're not at all aware that you made an apples-oranges
comparison.

B-52 airframes average about 18,000 flying hours. The airframe life is
estimated to be between 32,500 and 37,500 hours, depending on the usage
history of the individual aircraft. They are relatively young in terms of
flying hours because they spent much of their operational life on ground
alert.

By comparison, the airframe life of the F-15A-D is 8000 hours, some are
approaching that now. So in terms of flying hours the B-52 fleet is indeed
considerably younger than the F-15 fleet.