{"id":106280,"date":"2020-04-30T12:36:19","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T19:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/new-engines-will-keep-the-b-52-bomber-flying-for-100-years"},"modified":"2020-05-02T09:32:49","modified_gmt":"2020-05-02T16:32:49","slug":"new-engines-will-keep-the-b-52-bomber-flying-for-100-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/new-engines-will-keep-the-b-52-bomber-flying-for-100-years","title":{"rendered":"New Engines Will Keep the B-52 Bomber Flying for 100 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-engines-will-keep-the-b-52-bomber-flying-for-100-years.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Air Force\u2019s fleet of B-52H heavy strategic bombers are on track to becoming a fleet of flying centenarians. The service wants to purchase over 600 new engines for its B-52s, ensuring that the \u201cBig Ugly Fat Fella\u201d can fly on to 2050 or later. This will practically ensure that some bombers, delivered in the early 1960s, will still be dropping bombs in the early 2060s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Air Force\u2019s fleet of B-52H heavy strategic bombers are on track to becoming a fleet of flying centenarians. The service wants to purchase over 600 new engines for its B-52s, ensuring that the \u201cBig Ugly Fat Fella\u201d can fly on to 2050 or later. This will practically ensure that some bombers, delivered in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106385,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106280\/revisions\/106385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}