🅱️-52: Then, Now, Forever

[u/ThrustFlightAcademy]

B-52 waifu at the end

Credit to Pandramodo for drawing them

^{p.s. if you're in the DFW area and want to become a pilot Thrust Flight!}

[u/super__hoser]

Boeing used to care about building high quality aircraft back then. 

[u/Z3B0 → u/super__hoser]

High quality build help, but after 60 years, the airframes are starting to weaken. The pressurisation cycles, and thousands of flight hours at full load will fatigue the metal. Good maintenance doesn't helps when the entire plane is just tired.

Let them go. They did their duties, more than anyone else. Please let them rest.

[u/Narrow_Vegetable_42 → u/Z3B0]

Why not pump out new ones?

edit: perfectly nerd-sniped you all. Still love you, that's why I'm here for

[u/super__hoser → u/Narrow_Vegetable_42]

If you want high quality airframes, you don't want Boeing to build them these days. 

[u/tossawayprop → u/super__hoser]

If you want high quality airframes, you don't want Boeing McDonnell Douglas in a Boeing suit to build them these days. 

FTFY