Sunday, December 30, 2007
Beautiful B-52 photo
I found this photo on flickr. It’s of the Arc Light memorial located at Andersen Air Force Base on Guam. The photographer, flicker user harogi, writes:
This is a 3 Exposure hand held HDR of the B-52 Bomber Stratofortress at the Arc Light Memorial on Andersen Air Force Base Guam, USA. I just had to stop by here before leaving back to Hawaii. Oversaturated.
I know this memorial quite well. I was stationed on Andersen Air Force Base. I used to run a lot back then and I had a route that took me around this memorial. I also spent a couple of days scrapping rust off it when it was being refurbished. At one time it was in very bad shape. The wet, salty air isn’t very kind to a B-52. For that reason planes were always swapped out after 12 months with a B-52 from the states. Maine to be exact.
This old D model sat in the corrosive Guam air for decades.
I love this photo. Click on the above photo to go to the flickr page where it’s located. Also check out the photographer’s other similarly stunning photos.
To read about what Arc Light was, you can check out this Wikipedia article.
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That is a pretty awesome photo- it looks like a painting.
The BUFF is one of my favorite planes. I’m not sure if there is a cooler plane to see flying- maybe the An-225, but i’ve never seen one of those.