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Turfdude1996
1st May 2012, 01:49
I am desperately trying to find a side view of this bird. B-52 Orange Dad | Flickr - Photo Sharing! (http://www.flickr.com/photos/79637875@N05/6984122380/in/photostream/) My father was in the US Air Force in the mid 60's and was stationed at K.I. Sawyer for most of his service. He always joked later that he helped protect Northern Michigan from the North Vietnamese. After he left the service he went to work for IBM in Owego, NY. He was immediately was sent to Witicha, Kansas where he was assigned to Boeing at McConnell AFB. This is where he flew this aircraft on test flights. I know much of what they did was low level flight tests. I remember all the cool stories as a kid.

The reason for my post is this.. My father passed away in 2004. When I was a kid he built a large B-52 model in Vietnam camo scheme. I still have it hanging in my house. Before he passed away he bought the exact same model which I'm sure he planned on building one again. When he passed away that model was one of the things I brought home with me with the goal to build it for him at some point.

Recently, I have decided to get back into plastic modeling after more than 30 years. Today the last of my final supplies arrived and I have started building models again. I have already purchased three different models to get warmed up again on modeling. My goal is work my way up to this B-52 and paint it in the color scheme that this plane is in.

My problem is that I have Googled this plane left and right and I cannot find it. I'm pretty sure it is a G or H model based upon the nose. I have found every other orange B-52 test plane but not this one. According to my father’s stories, there were only two versions of this plane. Any help would be appreciated.
Thank you very much.

Link to plane: B-52 Orange Dad | Flickr - Photo Sharing! (http://www.flickr.com/photos/79637875@N05/6984122380/in/photostream/)

Rolling-Thunderbird
14th May 2012, 23:30
Well, not an expert on the BUFF by any means, but decided to poke around and see whats out there. It does seem like it's a G or an H model.

Found these two images, which may have been the same plane as the one you posted, but it could have been modified with time. The EVS infrared and low level TV sensors are absent from these pictures.

Very similar paint scheme, including the black out on the wing tips, and the stripe 3/4 of the way up the vertical fin.


http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y205/steve1995/Orangeb52.jpg

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y205/steve1995/b-52h.jpg

David Eyre
15th May 2012, 02:12
Hi Turfdude,

Can't help you with a side view, but the aircraft in the photo seems to be a B-52H, judging from the larger engines. The H model has TF33 turbofans, as opposed to the slimmer J57 turbojets found on the G model.

The Dayglo Orange paint colour indicates that it was one of a number of B-52H test aircraft. It may be one of five B-52H test aircraft which were temporarily designated JB-52H.

One of these orange aircraft was serial 60-0006, which later crashed. Photo of a model of it here: http://www.air-and-space.com/models/jb52h1m.jpg

The aircraft in your photo has the Electro-Optical Viewing System (EVS) pods under the nose - these were fitted to all B-52G and B-52H aircraft in the 1970s.

Regards,
David

Chairborne 09.00hrs
16th May 2012, 17:32
Post the question on here:

HyperScale's Discussion, Trading and Picture Posting Forums (http://www.clubhyper.com/forums/forum.htm)


I'm sure someone will be able to assist. :ok:

dennis1313
29th Mar 2016, 13:13
did you ever find pics? i have some.
dennis