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** Introduction **: page 2 ** Payload & delivery **: page2&3 ** Durable **: page 3&4 ** Size **: page 4 ** Fun Facts **and ** wrap up **: page 5 ** Glossary: **page 7     <span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 26pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 26pt; line-height: 115%;"> ** // __<span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 26pt; line-height: 115%;">Introduction __ // ** <span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">The B-52 is an amazing aircraft, right? What, you don`t know how cool it is?! Okay, I`ll tell but you will have to read on. The B-52 is a bomber. The B-52 is not the biggest plane in the world. That is the ** __Antonov-225__ ** but that’s another book. ** // __<span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 26pt; line-height: 115%;">Payload & Delivery __ // ** <span style="height: 193.5pt; margin-left: 1.5pt; margin-top: 0.15pt; mso-position-horizontal-relative: text; mso-position-horizontal: absolute; mso-position-vertical-relative: text; mso-position-vertical: absolute; mso-wrap-distance-left: 9pt; mso-wrap-distance-right: 9pt; mso-wrap-style: square; position: absolute; visibility: visible; width: 292.5pt; z-index: 1;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 26pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">I am going to tell you about the maximum ** __payload__ **and** __delivery__ ** of the B-52. Payload means how much something can carry. Before I tell you about the payload and delivery, let me tell you about the company that makes the B-52. The company that makes the B-52 is Boeing. Boeing also makes helicopters and commercial planes. The first B-52 rolled into the sun in 1951. The B-52 entered service in 1955. Wow that’s older than my dad!! Guess what, it dropped its first bomb in 1965. Fourteen years later and that’s a long time! The B-52 `s max payload of weapons is 70,000 pounds. The B-52 can carry all that weight by having a strong steel frame with lots of bolts. Yet, the B-52`s maximum take-off weight is 488,000 pounds. What happened to those extra 418,000 pounds? Well some of that weight is under the wings because the B-52 has attachable missile holders. The missile holders can carry two types of ** __nuclear cruise missiles__ **. They are the ALCM-86B, and the AMC-129A. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;"> The B-52`s ** __ceiling__ ** is 40,000 feet. <span style="height: 220.8pt; left: 0px; margin-left: 4.55pt; margin-top: 23.25pt; mso-position-horizontal-relative: text; mso-position-horizontal: absolute; mso-position-vertical-relative: text; mso-position-vertical: absolute; mso-wrap-distance-left: 9pt; mso-wrap-distance-right: 9pt; position: absolute; text-align: left; visibility: visible; width: 285.1pt; z-index: -3;">  <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;"> A ceiling is how high a plane can drop its bombs. The B-52 has carried close to every kind of weapon the United States Air Force owns. Now you know what the B-52`s payload and delivery is. It is time to turn the page and read the next chapter about how durable these planes are. See you there. <span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 26pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 26pt; line-height: 115%;"> ** // __<span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 26pt; line-height: 115%;">Durable __ // ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">I am about to tell you how durable the B-52 is. I bet you are wondering what durable means? It means something is strong or can take a lot of hits. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;"> Guess what? All of the B-52s that still fly today have computers come from the 1960`s. That’s more than 50 years ago!! In the 1960s and 1970s the crew had to keep paper notes on the fuel, bombs, and engines in note books. I would not want to have that job, but thanks to technology, computers can do the note taking now. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Between 1971 and 1977 Boeing installed the EVS that cost 250 million dollars. I hope I don`t have to buy that! EVS stands for Enhanced Vision System, which is like a video camera. Around that same time Boeing also put the V1 update in the B-52. A few of the systems that have been added to the B-52 are AN/ALQ117 and AN/ALR46. AM/ALQ117 is an electronic warfare system and the AN/LR46 is a radar receiver. The B-52s made in the 1960s are still flying today because United States Air Force upgrades them. That’s a lot of upgrades! The B-52 has been used longer than any other aircraft. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">The B-52 can go 8,800 miles before refueling and can carry 48,000 gallons of fuel. The B-52 has been flying for 48 years. People say that it will stay 100 flying for more years. Those are all my fact for this chapter. Do you now agree with me that the B-52 is the most amazing plane ever? You still don`t agree with me; well then you will have to read on. <span style="height: 199.7pt; left: 0px; margin-left: 5pt; margin-top: 162.95pt; mso-position-horizontal-relative: text; mso-position-horizontal: absolute; mso-position-vertical-relative: text; mso-position-vertical: absolute; mso-wrap-distance-left: 9pt; mso-wrap-distance-right: 9pt; position: absolute; text-align: left; visibility: visible; width: 256.3pt; z-index: -1;">  ** // __<span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 26pt; line-height: 150%;">Size __ // **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Well, it is good to see you again because I am about to tell you the B-52`s Size. Enough chit chat, let`s begin. The B-52s tail span is 52 inches long. Maybe that’s how theB-52 got its name. Guess what, the B-52 is the largest bomber used by the United States Air Force. The B-52 is the largest bomber weighing in at 488,000 pounds. The B-52 is 159 feet and 4 inches long. The B-52`s wingspan is 185 feet. Can you guess how tall the B-52 is? It is 40 feet, 8 inches tall. The B-52 used to have a gunner but now the gunner`s spot is coved by a metal plate to protect the plane. When the B-52 is empty it still weighs 185,000 pounds. Now you know all about the B-52s. size <span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 26pt; line-height: 150%;"> <span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 24pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 24pt; line-height: 115%;"> ** // __<span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 24pt; line-height: 115%;">Fun Facts __ // ** <span style="height: 241.9pt; left: 0px; margin-left: 12.95pt; margin-top: 38.15pt; mso-position-horizontal-relative: text; mso-position-horizontal: absolute; mso-position-vertical-relative: text; mso-position-vertical: absolute; mso-wrap-distance-left: 9pt; mso-wrap-distance-right: 9pt; position: absolute; text-align: left; visibility: visible; width: 347.5pt; z-index: -2;">  <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">This is the last chapter and I will tell you all sorts of fun facts about the B-52. A B-52 costs $74 million to buy. That’s like buying a $1 million mansion 74 times! There are ten types of the B-52. They are XB-52, B-52A, B-52B, B-52C, B-52D, B-52E, B-52F, B-52G, B-52H. When X is in front of a plane`s name it means experimental. All the people who fly in the B-52 sit in ejector seats. Ejector seats are seats that shout out of the plane if there is a problem. The B-52 has five crew members on board. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;"> People say the B-52 might get a new job as a jamming aircraft. It is like a rumor. A jamming aircraft is a plane that is invisible to enemy radar and some air-space around it that means planes can fly around it and stay invisible. The B-52 has eight jet engines that help it fly up to a maximum speed of 650 miles per hour. I hope you agree with me that the B-52 is the most amazing plane ever. ** // __<span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 24pt; line-height: 115%;">Wrap-up __ // ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">You have learned about the B-52`s payload & delivery, how strong it is, how big it is and numerous fun facts. Those are only the most important facts about the B-52. That is the end of my book. Now it is time to fly over to another book. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">
 * Table of Contents **<span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">

** Glossary  ** ** Antonov-225:  ** a big cargo plane ** Payload:  ** how much something can carry ** Delivery  ** : how much something can drop ** Nuclear cruise missile(s):  ** a guided missile and usually jet propelled ** Ceiling:  ** how high a plane can drop its weapons <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">