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Big Ugly Fat Fellow

Cold War Era Military Aviation
Remembering Operation Chrome Dome, the 1960’s airborne alert missions flown by B-52 strategic bombers armed with thermonuclear weapons

by Dario Leone Mar 15 2020

Mar 15 2020

By 1961 General Power openly announced SAC conducted airborne alert missions, codenamed Chrome Dome, with nuclear-armed B-52s or BUFFs, meaning Big…

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Aviation History Cold War Era Military Aviation
Operation Arc Light: when the iconic B-52 Stratofortress earned the nickname “BUFF”

by Dario Leone Mar 30 2018

Mar 30 2018

Flying too high to be seen or heard B-52 bombers became one of the weapons most feared by the Viet Cong…

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Big Ugly Fat Fellow

Remembering Operation Chrome Dome, the 1960’s airborne alert missions flown by B-52 strategic bombers armed with thermonuclear weapons

Operation Arc Light: when the iconic B-52 Stratofortress earned the nickname “BUFF”