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BOEING B-52 STRATOFORTRESS

at some point in 2042 there’ll be a ceremony on an American airbase – or two – celebrating the fact that the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress will have been in service for 90 years. Just stop and contemplate that for a moment. The very notion that, in this world of ever-quickening technical redundancy, something as complicated as a strategic bomber could hang

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