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2002年4月15日是B-52的黄金纪念日。50年前这一天,在西雅图的波音机场,编号为NO.49-0231的YB-52第一次起飞升空,从此开启了B-52的时代。当时的人们,甚至驾驶它的飞行员A·M·约翰斯顿,也不曾想到这种庞大的8引擎轰炸机到了21世纪竟然仍在蓝天翱翔,更想不到它会出现在阿富汗的反恐战争中。 波音公司的超凡之作 B-52的最初构想是在俄亥俄州代顿的范克里夫宾馆产生的。1948年lO月21日,星期四,波音公司一群精英人物在该宾馆向亨
April 15, 2002 is the golden anniversary of the B-52. Fifty years ago, at the Boeing Airport in Seattle, the YB-52 numbered NO.49-0231 took off for the first time and opened the B-52 era. People of that day, even pilot alumni Johnston Johnston, never imagined that such a large 8-engine bomber would still be flying in the blue sky by the 21st century, not to mention that it would appear in the war on terror in Afghanistan. Boeing's extraordinary work B-52 was originally conceived at Vancliffe Hotel in Dayton, Ohio. On Thursday, October 21, 1948, a group of Boeing elite figures drove to the hotel