Six hours into a routine patrol mission over the Arctic, smoke began filling the cockpit of a B-52 Stratofortress carrying four hydrogen bombs. Captain John Haug and his crew fought to reach Thule Air ...
The B-52 was born in the shadow of World War II but entered a very different world. First flight: April 15, 1952. By the 1960s there were 742 airframes built across eight variants but the aircraft’s ...