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                        B-52 wheel color

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                        yardbird78
                        • Member since
                          January 2003
                        • From: 40 klicks east of the Gateway
                        Posted by yardbird78 on Wednesday, March 10, 2010 6:50 PM

                        B -52 wheels were originally silver.  At some later date, I am not sure just when, they started painting them white.  A lot of the hubs were painted in bright colors, red, blue, green, etc for different squadrons.

                        Darwin, O.F.  Alien

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                        The B-52 and me, we have grown old, gray and overweight together.

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                        Hans von Hammer
                        • Member since
                          June 2008
                        • From: Iowa
                        Posted by Hans von Hammer on Wednesday, March 10, 2010 6:46 PM

                        Huh... In the Gathering of Eagles clip, they're white with a metallic hub looks like..  Who'da thunk it?

                        Guess you can go silve with the SE Asia and White with SAC...

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                        Neptune48
                        • Member since
                          February 2006
                        Posted by Neptune48 on Wednesday, March 10, 2010 4:59 PM

                        Look at around 7:09 here from Bombers B-52:

                        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuA_kmX6mWY&feature=related

                        The video is pretty dark, but it looks like silver lacquer or something similar.

                        There's also a clip on YouTube from A Gathering of Eagles--the scene with an emergency landing.

                        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeBBeGLo_ug&feature=related

                         

                        "You can't have everything--where would you put it?"
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                        Hans von Hammer
                        • Member since
                          June 2008
                        • From: Iowa
                        Posted by Hans von Hammer on Wednesday, March 10, 2010 12:49 PM

                        Given that the underside is black, I'm SWAG-ing that this BUFF is painted in SE Asia (T.O. 1-1-4?) camo...

                         Testor's Model Master Steel (or plain ol' Silver with a little black mixed in) would be my choice of paint... Dunno why there'd be any other color on a SAC Anti-Nuke finish...

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                        urich
                        • Member since
                          March 2003
                        • From: Chipley FL
                        B-52 wheel color
                        Posted by urich on Wednesday, March 10, 2010 12:26 PM

                         Can someone help me wih the wheel colors on a SAC silver and and a SAC -SEA wheel colors I have a couple of older Mongram B-52Ds and I'm doing one of each I have looked in my books but sitll can not get a good picture. Thanks J

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