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Scale 1:120  Length 16.1"  Wingspan 18.5"

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Since becoming operational in April, 1955, the B-52 has been the main long-range nuclear bomber of the Strategic Air Command.  It has gone through numerous improvements resulting in ever newer designations.

In 1958, the B-52G was designed to reduce the overall aircraft weight in an effort to improve performance. The most obvious change was the re-designed tail. About 8 feet of the vertical stabilizer was removed and the chord (width) was increased. The wing was extensively modified also. The self-sealing bladder-type fuel cells were removed and the wing itself was sealed for fuel (wet wing). The tail gunner's position was moved from the tail turret to a remote firing station in the forward crew compartment.

Boeing (Wichita) built all 193 B-52Gs with the first aircraft rolling out of the production plant in the summer of 1958. The B-52G model was capable of carrying two AGM-28 "Hound Dog" missiles like the B-52F model, but it was also equipped to carry the GAM-87 "Skybolt" and later the Air Launched Cruise Missile and the Short Range Attack Missile.

The B-52G was used extensively in the 1991 during operation Desert Storm before being phased out of operational service in 1994.

B-52 Serial numbers:
57-6468 to 57-6520
58-0158 to 58-0258
59-2564 to 59-2602

Crew:        6 (Pilot, Copilot, Electronic Warfare Officer, Navigator, Radar Navigator-Bombardier, Tail Gunner)
Length:       160 ft 11 in
Wingspan:  185 ft
Height:        48 ft
Weight:       488,000 lbs max,  combat 300,000 lbs
Engines:     8 P&W turbojets, 13,750 lbs each
Speed:        634 mph at 20,800 ft; Cruise 526mph
Ceiling:       47,000 ft. at combat weight
Range:        7,300 miles max without in-flight refueling
Armament: 4 .50-cal. machine guns in tail plus 50,000 lbs of  nuclear or  conventional bombs/missiles

Related Links
B-52 Stratofortress Association