B-52 around the world ?

[Goosemaster]

Appearantly, according to the History channel, a B-52 circled the globe non-stop in 1952. Anyone have any info on this? I assume that this included inflight-refueling.

I always assumed it was the plane that is hanging in the Air & Space museum in D.C.(Forgot the name)

 

[GalvanizedYankee]

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It looks like 1-57. I remember ppl talking about it.............🙂

 

[Kenazo]

man, those planes are older than my mom. 🙂
So, if they came out in 1952, I wonder how long they were working on them. 1952 was only 7 years after the end of WWII.

 

[Quixfire]

They have one at the Yankee Air Museum at the Willow Run Airport. This thing is huge, but inside you have to walk bent over to get around.

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: galvanizedyankee
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It looks like 1-57. I remember ppl talking about it.............🙂

On January 18, 1957 three B-52's completed the world's first non-stop round-the-world flight by jet aircraft. This trip too 45 hours and 19 minutes. During the filight there were three air refulings.

oh....guess that plane in the smithonian WAS the first Non-stop non-refueled flight 'rounf the world...