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Boeing B-52 Stratofortress (52-0003)
NB-52A with replica X-15 at Pima Air and Space Museum 12 July 2025.
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From Joe Baugher's aircraft list:
Boeing B-52A-1-BO Stratofortress, 52-003 converted to NB-52A X-15 launcher. Named "The High and Might[y] One". To MASDC Oct 15, 1969. Passed on to Pima Air and Space Museum, Tucson, Arizona.
More info from Wikipedia:
The last B-52A (serial 52-003) was modified and redesignated NB-52A in 1959 to carry the North American X-15. A pylon was fitted under the right wing between the fuselage and the inboard engines with a 6 by 8 feet (1.8 m × 2.4 m) section removed from the right wing flap to fit the X-15 tail. Liquid oxygen and hydrogen peroxide tanks were installed in the bomb bays to fuel the X-15 before launch. Its first flight with the X-15 was on 19 March 1959, with the first launch on 8 June 1959. The NB-52A, nicknamed "The High and Mighty One" carried the X-15 on 93 of the program's 199 flights.[249]
Click here for a photo:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_B-52_Stratofortress#/media/File:Boeing_NB-52A_carrying_X-15.jpg
Boeing B-52A-1-BO Stratofortress, 52-003 converted to NB-52A X-15 launcher. Named "The High and Might[y] One". To MASDC Oct 15, 1969. Passed on to Pima Air and Space Museum, Tucson, Arizona.
More info from Wikipedia:
The last B-52A (serial 52-003) was modified and redesignated NB-52A in 1959 to carry the North American X-15. A pylon was fitted under the right wing between the fuselage and the inboard engines with a 6 by 8 feet (1.8 m × 2.4 m) section removed from the right wing flap to fit the X-15 tail. Liquid oxygen and hydrogen peroxide tanks were installed in the bomb bays to fuel the X-15 before launch. Its first flight with the X-15 was on 19 March 1959, with the first launch on 8 June 1959. The NB-52A, nicknamed "The High and Mighty One" carried the X-15 on 93 of the program's 199 flights.[249]
Click here for a photo:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_B-52_Stratofortress#/media/File:Boeing_NB-52A_carrying_X-15.jpg
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