{"id":31054,"date":"2015-02-24T00:15:10","date_gmt":"2015-02-24T03:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=31054"},"modified":"2016-11-25T00:36:28","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T03:36:28","slug":"air-force-pulls-b-52-from-boneyard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/24\/air-force-pulls-b-52-from-boneyard\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Force Pulls B-52 from Boneyard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christianfighterpilot.com\/images\/b52ghostrider.jpg\" alt=\"B-52 Flies out of AMARG\" width=\"495\" height=\"278\" \/>In a relatively rare occurrence for the big bomber, the US Air Force <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2015\/02\/21\/us\/arizona-b-52-restored\/index.html\">un-mothballed a 50-year-old B-52<\/a> from the storage base in Tucson, AZ, and flew it to Barksdale AFB:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The 53-year-old Stratofortress, tail number 61-1007, nicknamed the &#8220;Ghost Rider&#8221; had been in storage at the desert in the care of [AMARG] since 2008&#8230;Ghost Rider, after upgrades, will become the first B-52 to return to duty from the Boneyard.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The plane\u00a0was reportedly revived to replace <!--more-->another B-52 that was &#8220;totaled&#8221; in a fire.<\/p>\n<p>Granted, getting a jet out of 6-years of storage at AMARG isn&#8217;t like pulling it off the grounds of museum, but anyone who has ever stored a car for any length of time knows the issues that can arise &#8212; issues that far multiply when you talk about a machine designed to fly and deliver nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Also at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.afrc.af.mil\/News\/ArticleDisplay\/tabid\/136\/Article\/566416\/resurrecting-the-ghost-rider.aspx\">the AFRC<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-share=\"true\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-size=\"small\" data-action=\"like\" data-layout=\"standard\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>ADVERTISEMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><!-- blogpost --><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-slot=\"2728423835\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6450825356098669\"><\/ins><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a relatively rare occurrence for the big bomber, the US Air Force un-mothballed a 50-year-old B-52 from the storage base in Tucson, AZ, and flew it to Barksdale AFB: The 53-year-old Stratofortress, tail number 61-1007, nicknamed the &#8220;Ghost Rider&#8221; had been in storage at the desert in the care of [AMARG] since 2008&#8230;Ghost Rider, after upgrades, will become the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[5037,478,2936,858,5285,2],"class_list":["post-31054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-amarg","tag-b-52","tag-barksdale-afb","tag-davis-monthan","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}