{"id":69467,"date":"2024-06-20T17:04:33","date_gmt":"2024-06-20T07:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/congress-wants-usaf-b-52-crew-more-comfortable-30-hour-missions\/"},"modified":"2024-06-20T17:04:33","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T07:04:33","slug":"congress-wants-usaf-b-52-crew-to-be-more-comfortable-on-30-hour-missions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=69467","title":{"rendered":"Congress Wants USAF B-52 Crew To Be More Comfortable On 30+ Hour Missions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            A House version of the 2025 defense policy bill is calling for living accommodations on the legendary B-52 bomber to be improved. The <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/b-52\/\">B-52 Stratofortress<\/a> is the mother of all <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/bomber\/\">strategic bombers<\/a>. It has been in service since the 1950s and is expected to outlive its intended replacements (the B-1 Lancer and the B-2 Spirit). B-52s are <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/us-air-force-b52-bomber-rolls-royce-engines-wont-fly-until-2033\/\">currently planned to be re-engined and upgraded to the B-52J variant<\/a>, which will see them flying until at least the late 2040s (likely beyond).     <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Air Force has been instructed to address the issues with the infamously bad work environment onboard the B-52.<\/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":[396,2038,1455,412,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-b-52","category-bomber","category-military","category-united-states-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69467","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=69467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69468,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69467\/revisions\/69468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}