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B-52 Spotted During Testing of Unidentified Weapon

A B-52 with test markings was spotted carrying a mysterious payload that resembles the rendering of the AGM-181 LRSO, the Air ...
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Air Force B-52 forced passenger plane to make ‘aggressive maneuver’ to avoid collision

The pilot of a civilian passenger jet made a sharp and abrupt maneuver just prior to landing at a North Dakota airport to avoid an Air Force B-52 Stratofortress bomber that was performing a low-level ...
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Passenger jet pilot makes hard midair turn to avoid B-52 bomber

A passenger jet made a hard turn midair Friday to avoid a collision with a B-52 bomber, according to the pilot and the Air Force. SkyWest Flight 3788, operating as Delta Connection from Minneapolis, ...
Military Times

Close call between B-52 and passenger jet puts focus on small airports

This photo from the North Dakota Governor's Office shows a B-52 bomber from Minot Air Force Base in a flyover at the North Dakota State Fair on Friday, July 18, 2025, in Minot, N.D. (North Dakota ...
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X-20: A Spaceplane That Could Have Been ‘Dropped’ from a B-52 Bomber

Key Points and Summary - Decades before the Space Shuttle, the U.S. backed the X-20 Dyna-Soar: a reusable, skip-glide spaceplane born from WWII German concepts and accelerated by the Sputnik shock.