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Aviation History
1955
1955 - 0279.PDF
FLIGHT, 4 March 1955 279 The outer wings and tail surfaces are built in vertical jigs (right); the tail- plane leading-edge reaches the roof. In the foreground, spar booms are being drilled. At the foot of the opposite page are seen nose sections in two-floor jigs, and, in the smaller photograph, one of the four landing-gear units is shown on a machine jacked-up for re- traction tests on the pre-flight line. Bay 4 of Seattle's Plant 2 is now the end of the main assembly line for B-52As; on the left are shown the first two pro- duction machines near- ing completion last autumn. The photo- graph below was taken much more recently and depicts the pre-flight line stretching the whole length of the West side of the air- field. At night, 31 kilo- watts of electric power light up the B-52s tor round-the-clock work.
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