AIRCRAFT: B-52D Stratofortress

• TYPE: strategic heavy bomber
  
• MAKER: Boeing Company
  
• SPAN: 185 ft.
  
• LENGTH: 156 ft. 6 in.
  
• HEIGHT: 48 ft. 3 in.
  
• WEIGHT: maximum takeoff weight 450,000 lb.
  
• POWERPLANT: eight 12,000 lb. thrust Pratt & Whitney J57-P-29W turbojet engines
  
• PERFORMANCE: 650 m.p.h. maximum at 20,000 ft., ceiling 50,000+ ft., range 6,300 miles
  
• ARMAMENT: 60,000 lb. of mixed conventional ordinance, four 50 caliber machine guns
  
• CREW: 6

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