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From: gordonh@milton.u.washington.edu (Gordon Hayes)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Air Superiority B-52?
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Date: 8 Jun 91 05:00:21 GMT
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From: gordonh@milton.u.washington.edu (Gordon Hayes)


swilliam@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Steve Williams) writes:
>B-52 was designed and built as a bomber - meaning that there is a very
>limited space available for additional crew or equipment.  Most of the
>fuselage volume is devoted to fuel tanks, bomb bays, etc.  Also, I
>believe that the B-52 airframe is too narrow for AWACS equipment/personnel
>purpose.

I can definitely verify that the BUFFs (B-52's) don't have the room for
an AWACs crew.  I've been all over them and they are rather cramped.
I used to work on them (for 4 years, including uploaded ones on the
alert pad, ready to go).  Scary place to work sometimes.  I really
think, though, that the planes they currently use for AWACS are
quite reasonable ones.  

-- 
Gordon Hayes, MCIS, University of Washington
gordonh@milton.u.washington.edu