Despite their age — they have been fly since the 1950s — the B-52 Stratofortress is still the backbone of the US Air Force ’s strategical bombardment force . These jet - powered brute can render up to 70,000 pounds of weapons to any target around the globe . That includes atomic artillery , of course .
This video register an entire training mission , from pre - flight checks to ethereal fueling . It even includes one ofthose screwball small pass flybys .
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This B-52 belongs to the 96th Bomb Squadron , taking off from Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana , on April 18 , 2012 .
U.S. Air Force video by TSgt . Rebecca Zannetti
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