Perhaps the BEST B1G Forum anywhere, here at College Football Fan Site, CFB51!!!

That thing is amazing.  It first flew 73 years ago and was introduced into active service 70 years ago in 1955.  It is so old that it replaced leftover WWII B29's (there were a few intermediate B36's B47's, and B50's) but the B29 was still very much in service when the B52 was introduced. 

They stopped building them 63 years ago (1962) and the thing is STILL flying. 

Production figures:

• 3,970 B29's (wartime production for WWII)
• 384 B36's
• 2,042 B47's
• 370 B50's
• 744 B52's

And some of them will be 90 years old when they are finally slated to retire.  

90 fucking years old!!  Obviously the engines and avionics and other stuff has been upgraded, but the airframes themselves will be 90.  

1962 was a helluva year

1807 Former US Vice President Aaron Burr is tried for treason in Richmond, Virginia (acquitted)

1843 First wagon train departs Independence, Missouri, for Oregon with 700 to 1,000 migrants

1849 Abraham Lincoln receives a patent (only US President to do so) for a device to lift a boat over shoals and obstructions

1868 Train robbery at Marshfield, Indiana by the Reno Brothers Gang, who make off with $98,000

1883 Cubs' Billy Sunday's 1st at bat, begins 14 consecutive strikes out

1884 1-armed pitcher Hugh Daily fanned 13 hitters

1892 Dr Washington Sheffield invents the toothpaste tube


1906 Wright Brothers are granted a patent for their "flying machine," having applied for one 3 years earlier (patent no. 821,393)

1911 Braves pitcher, Cliff Curtis, loses his 23rd game in a row


1916 Battle of Verdun: French troops assault Fort Douaumont but fail to recapture it after hours of dogged fighting

1939 Germany's Adolf Hitler and Italy's Benito Mussolini sign the "Pact of Steel" formalizing the 1936 alliance known as the Rome-Berlin Axis

1942 Mexico declares war on Nazi-Germany & Japan

1965 "Super-cali-fragil-istic-expi-ali-docious", from the film "Mary Poppin" hits #66

1965 Beatles' "Ticket to Ride" single goes #1

1970 Mel Stottlemyre sets record by walking 11, but wins 2-0

1973 President Nixon confesses his role in Watergate cover-up

1977 Red Sox (6) & Brewers (5) tie single game HR record of 11

1986 American singer and actress Cher calls David Letterman an "a**hole" while a guest on his "Late Night" TV program (NBC)

1990 Microsoft releases Windows 3.0

1992 Johnny Carson's final appearance as host of "The Tonight Show"

1986 American singer and actress Cher calls David Letterman an "a**hole" while a guest on his "Late Night" TV program (NBC)

she wasn't wrong

Carson wasn't an a-hole

Cher is an asshole . 

Cher is an asshole .

along with Sonny