Hey TailGunner

[XTrmXJ]

Heres somthing I see every day on my way to work, Ya I know its at night, but the pic for a treasure hunt with a Licience plate

 

[Tail_Gunner]

Heres somthing I see every day on my way to work, Ya I know its at night, but the pic for a treasure hunt with a Licience plate

It's a G model BUFF that was modified to carry Air Launch Cruise Missles. Since it looks unusually shiney, I'd say the pic was taken in the rain?
It's obviously on permanent display, at Langley AFB perhaps?? If that's the case, it's probably tail #59-2601. I checked my old flight records, and unfortunately for most of the 118 flights where I flew on G models at Grand Forks AFB ND, the information showing which tail number I flew was not recorded.
Unless that exact jet spent time at Grand Forks from 82 to 86, or was at Castle AFB, CA during the first Gulf War, it's not likely I've ever flown on it.

 

[jvencius]

It's a G model BUFF that was modified to carry Air Launch Cruise Missles.

Are you sure those aren't HSAB hardpoints? IIRC, the mounts for ALCM/ACM pylons are the same, but I can't remember if the same jet can carry both HSAB's and ALCM/ACM pylons (not at the same time, obviously)...

 

[XTrmXJ]

Accually they had just repainted that plane and they used a hi gloss paint to do it, I will have to look at the tail # when I leave base.. We have a lot of Pickles on sticks here on Base

 

[Tail_Gunner]

Are you sure those aren't HSAB hardpoints? IIRC, the mounts for ALCM/ACM pylons are the same, but I can't remember if the same jet can carry both HSAB's and ALCM/ACM pylons (not at the same time, obviously)...

The hard points were all about the same, they had to be for flexibility.
The giveaway that it was an ALCM carrier is the area where the wing meets the fuselage. Normally there is a sharp, definate point where the wing meets the body. But for ALCM carriers, a flared fairing was added to blend that point, not for aerodynamic reasons even though a slight fuel mileage improvement was realized. The reason the flared fairing was added to the G model BUFF's was for nuclear arms reduction verification with the former Soviet Union. They could see using spy satellites if the BUFFS were normal or had the fairings indicating if the airplane was an ALCM carrier or not.

I've added a couple of pics in my WEBSHOTS showing the difference between the two. They are the last two pics in the "linked" album.

 

[Hoss 350]

The hard points were all about the same, they had to be for flexibility.
The giveaway that it was an ALCM carrier is the area where the wing meets the fuselage. Normally there is a sharp, definate point where the wing meets the body. But for ALCM carriers, a flared fairing was added to blend that point, not for aerodynamic reasons even though a slight fuel mileage improvement was realized. The reason the flared fairing was added to the G model BUFF's was for nuclear arms reduction verification with the former Soviet Union. They could see using spy satellites if the BUFFS were normal or had the fairings indicating if the airplane was an ALCM carrier or not.

I've added a couple of pics in my WEBSHOTS showing the difference between the two. They are the last two pics in the "linked" album.

My TCM went over the PDQ on the RCA and mounted clockwise off of the VHS and ran the DVD/RW. Additionally, while ESPN was WFO on the DL, IBM went AWOL with my MIL.

 

[ramprat]

Tailgunner got a question for ya.

Anderson AFB had a BUFF on static display painted really sweet & all loaded out. Heard thrugh the grapevine it got destroyed in a typhoon, but never found out if that was true or not.

Sad to say I lost all my pictures of that BUFF, but it was a sweet looking bird configured for a arc light strike (if I remember right)

 

[Tail_Gunner]

Tailgunner got a question for ya.

Anderson AFB had a BUFF on static display painted really sweet & all loaded out. Heard thrugh the grapevine it got destroyed in a typhoon, but never found out if that was true or not.

Sad to say I lost all my pictures of that BUFF, but it was a sweet looking bird configured for a arc light strike (if I remember right)

If I recall the old stories correctly, the current D model B-52 on display at Guam is a replacement to the original airplane "Old 100". "Old 100" or tail #55-0100 was a B-52D that flew a huge number of missions during the Vietnam war. But on its last mission, the crew had to do some rather extreme evasive maneuvering to avoid a SA-2 (surface to air missile). The crew successfully returned to Guam and landed safely. But as a result of the "yankin' & bankin'", the airplane got "bent" and was deemed unflyable. Old 100 was turned into a permanent memorial to the B-52 crew members lost during the war. After many years of exposure of to the salt ladden air of Guam without the preventative maintainence afforded to flyable BUFF's, "Old 100" had corroded to the point of being unsafe. About 20 years ago, all the remaining D model B-52's were being retired and sent to the bone-yard. One was selected (Tail #56-0586) to replace "Old 100" as the permanent display B-52 for the memorial. Tail #56-0586 was repainted to look like "Old 100".

What the current status of the B-52 and the Arc Light Memorial on Anderson AFB on Guam is, I don't know.