OUTSIZED STRATO-FORTRESS BOMBER MAKES ITS DEBUT.—A 175-ton eight-jet bomber for the United States Air Force leaving the Boeing aircraft plant in Seattle a few days ago. Known as the B-52, the plane has great speed and could be used as a hydrogen bomb carrier. General Nathan Twining, the Air Force Chief of Staff, described the new bomber as “the long rifle of the air age.”
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27306, 24 March 1954, Page 11
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65OUTSIZED STRATO-FORTRESS BOMBER MAKES ITS DEBUT.—A 175-ton eight-jet bomber for the United States Air Force leaving the Boeing aircraft plant in Seattle a few days ago. Known as the B-52, the plane has great speed and could be used as a hydrogen bomb carrier. General Nathan Twining, the Air Force Chief of Staff, described the new bomber as “the long rifle of the air age.” Press, Volume XC, Issue 27306, 24 March 1954, Page 11
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