{"id":297,"date":"2025-07-04T21:27:52","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T21:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/2025\/07\/04\/what-it-takes-to-keep-a-70-year-old-b-52-flying-exclusive-look-inside-the-accelerated-inspection-at-edwards-afb\/"},"modified":"2025-07-04T21:27:52","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T21:27:52","slug":"what-it-takes-to-keep-a-70-year-old-b-52-flying-exclusive-look-inside-the-accelerated-inspection-at-edwards-afb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/2025\/07\/04\/what-it-takes-to-keep-a-70-year-old-b-52-flying-exclusive-look-inside-the-accelerated-inspection-at-edwards-afb\/","title":{"rendered":"What It Takes to Keep a 70-Year-Old B-52 Flying: Exclusive Look Inside the Accelerated Inspection at Edwards AFB"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Inside the rapid B-52 X-Ray inspection that saved 17 days and boosted confidence in the 70-year-old bomber. In late June 2025, the U.S. Air Force\u2019s 412th Test Wing shared that its Non-Destructive Inspection (NDI) team had completed a major inspection on a B-52 Stratofortress a full 17 days ahead of schedule. The milestone marked the [\u2026]<\/p>\n

The post What It Takes to Keep a 70-Year-Old B-52 Flying: Exclusive Look Inside the Accelerated Inspection at Edwards AFB<\/a> appeared first on The Aviationist<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Inside the rapid B-52 X-Ray inspection that saved 17 days and boosted confidence in the 70-year-old bomber. In late June 2025, the U.S. Air Force\u2019s 412th Test Wing shared that its Non-Destructive Inspection (NDI) team had completed a major inspection on a B-52 Stratofortress a full 17 days ahead of schedule. The milestone marked the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}