27 Feb 2019

Buff-ing it out

Crew chiefs assigned to the 5th Maintenance Squadron lower the vertical stabilizer on a B-52H Stratofortress at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, Feb. 10, 2019. The crew chiefs took turns operating the jackscrew that held the weight of the vertical stabilizer. Vertical Stabilizers are seldom taken down for maintenance. (U.S. Air Force photos by Airman Jesse Jenny)

9 Aug 2018

Return to Sender: Original Aircrew Returns to Minot

Brad Foote and Bill Sims, retired Lieutenant Colonels and, respectively, radar navigator and electronic warfare officers, flew one of the first B-52H Stratofortress bomber’s into Minot Air Force Base in 1961. Now, nearly 57 years after their initial flight to Minot, Foote and Sims return to see the 2018 Northern Neighbors Day Air and Space Show on