{"id":139189,"date":"2024-10-12T15:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-10-12T05:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/usaf-b-52-throwback-livery-historic-bomber-development-program\/"},"modified":"2024-10-12T15:00:12","modified_gmt":"2024-10-12T05:00:12","slug":"the-usafs-new-b-52-throwback-livery-looking-back-at-the-historic-bombers-development-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=139189","title":{"rendered":"The USAF&#8217;s New B-52 Throwback Livery: Looking Back At The Historic Bomber&#8217;s Development Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As they say, &#8220;Everything old is new again.&#8221; That includes the venerable 70-year-old warbird <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boeing.com\/defense\/b-52#news\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" >Boeing B-52 Stratofortress<\/a>, AKA the &#8220;BUFF&#8221; (Big Ugly Fat Fellow). Concurrent with the much-ballyhooed upgrades to the upcoming B-52J, at least one specimen of the current B-52H variant is going retro with an old-school paint scheme and livery. Simple Flying now looks closer at this colorful retro-BUFF and its story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The venerable B-52 isn&#8217;t just getting upgraded. Paradoxically, it&#8217;s also going retro&#8230;at least in terms of the paint scheme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,2038,398,408,12243,423,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-b-52","category-boeing","category-history","category-paint-scheme","category-united-states","category-united-states-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139190,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139189\/revisions\/139190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}