ATTN! ATTN! B-52 experts...please help me out

Already did..and included my e-mail address so you can just send any questions you have. Sorry again about the pictures.

I can still use help with other info I need so go ahead and give me a shout.

The only basic engine change on the B-52 is when Boeing went from the Pratt & Whitney J-57 series on the early models to the TF-33 on the later models beginning with the B-52G I believe. I recently read that there was a plan around 1996 or so to fit four larger and more powerful British RB-211 engines onto the airplane but the idea was cancelled. I do have a bit of bad news for you guys though. The only thing I can't do out at Tinker is take pictures. Any colors, markings, antenna arrangements, or anything else I can tell you but can't provide any photos or T.O. drawings. I feel bad because I would like to take some pictures of that nose art and others to use as a reference on my model but I can't. About a week ago I got to go out on the flightline to drill some drain holes on a lower side cowling on a 52 that had just completed one of its first post-overhaul test flights. The guy that was training me had a disposable camera (which is a BIG no-no because cameras are forbidden from the base) and I wanted to take just one pic of me driling one hole in this cowling to put in a school scrapbook, and they wouldn't give me permission. I would still be glad to help though and tell you about whatever on the B-52. Do you still want me to e-mali you?

Philip,

Thanks for the links to the great pictures. FWIW, the engine pods look huge compared to what I've seen on model kits. Have the engines on the B-52s changed over the years? For that matter, are the kits incorrect?

Regards,

-Drew

Hey that is a cool job Rebel99!!. Can you email me so we can work something out?

Out at Tinker AFB we do all the overhauls for the B-52, so we get aircraft coming in from all over the country. Most of the ones we have now are from Barksdale but there are a couple from minot. I believe the tail code for minot is MT. The aircraft are overall gunship grey and carry the small black national insignia on the wings and fuselage.There is also a small USAF on the top of the right wing. The Minot birds that I've seen have a red and yellow band near the fin tip. I forget what it looks like, but I'll check when I go to work tonight. Working out there is cool. You get to see B-52's from various units and all sorts of markings. One I checked out last night has nose art for "Cherokee Strip II", like the B-24. There is a tail fin outside with the tailcode of BF and a band of blue and red checkers near the tip. It comes from a reserve unit, but does anyone know where?

you may have to decal bash to get the particular aircraft you want to depict.

(I'll take a bavarian creme please) lol

jeff

OK Balta
They belong to the 23rd Bomb Squadron, 5th Bomb Wing
Here are some pics at the Minot AFB site
http://www.minot.af.mil/base/pictures/Default.htm
here is a bigger pic
http://community.webshots.com/photo/79556579/79397107KAMoEv
and another
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/systems/images/b-52_centcom080503.jpg
Can't find any decals for them in 1/144 or 1/72