B-52 attrition rates?

Gene Myers wrote:

Back in the late 60s during the night low level part of an ORI located
in Texas my B-52H and several others in the stream sustained damage
from hitting a flock of geese. I had several large holes in the
leading edge of my right wing, but I didn't know I had hit anything
until I landed. The aircraft following me had some TF-33 engine
damage, but the engines did not shell out. In some cases there were
large holes in the side of the enging cowlings where the first stages
of the compressor had flung the ingested birds at a right angle
through the cowling from the inside out. The first stage compressor
blades were a twisted mess, but that was about all.


Yep, pretty tough jet and engines.


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