Tarver Engineering wrote:
"Michael Zaharis" wrote in message
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Tarver Engineering wrote:

It is a new B-52, so you didn't see what you thought.

Wrong. It was one of the older B-52s. Note the tall tale, indicating
that it is not the new H- model that NASA recently converted.

http://www.cnn.com/interactive/space...al.02.nasa.jpg


You are correct. My friends at Dryden had assured me that the H would be
flying the payload and I am wrong.



BTW, how has the -H been deveoped? I remember some dire warnings early
on when that aircraft was added to the fleet that it would not be able
to fulfill all of the roles that the old -Bs do. Have they been able to
work around that?

Will they eventually retire the final -B carrier and rely fully on the -H?