B-52D Stratofortress 1:144 [Academy-Minicraft] NEW 2024

B-52D Stratofortress 1:144 [Academy-Minicraft] NEW 2024

Long-range heavy bomber capable of delivering a nuclear payload, developed by Boeing for the United States Air Force entering military service from 1955. The seventy year old design is expected to remain operational until the 2050s. The B-52D variant was used extensively in the Vietnam war. This release from Academy is from the Minicraft tooling. M117 air-dropped demolition bombs included. Markings for B-52D 55-0675: Retired October 1982, broken up December 1993; 56-0676: The first B-52 to down a MiG-21 in combat (over North Vietnam) and preserved at Fairchild AFB; 55-0677: Preserved at the Yankee Air Museum, Michigan; 56-0591: 4925th Test Group (Atomic) "Tommy's Tigator", crashed June 1959 in the Ochoco National Forest, Oregon. Cause, failure of the horizontal stabilizer (tail plane) during low-level flight tests. The crew of five Boeing employees did not survive.