A NASA TF-104G (below) flies chase on the NB-52B Balls 8 (above) on 14 September 1979.
Type
Boeing NB-52B Stratofortress
Manufacturer
Boeing Aircraft Company
Serial
52-008
First flight
11 June 1955
Owners and operators
United States Air Force NASA
Status
Retired
Preserved at
Edwards Air Force Base, California
Nose sectionTail sectionPanoramic showing the various test flights it participated in.
Balls 8 is a NASA Boeing NB-52B mothership which was retired in 2004 after almost 50 years of flying service with NASA.[1][2] The aircraft is famous for dropping the X-15 aerospace research vehicle on 106 of the 199 X-15 program flights.[3]
^Creech, Gray (December 15, 2004). "End of an Era: NASA's Famous B-52B Retires". NASA Dryden Flight Research Center. Archived from the original on 2004-12-28.
^Gibbs, Yvonne, ed. (February 28, 2014). "NASA Armstrong Fact Sheet: B-52B "Mothership" Launch Aircraft". NASA. Archived from the original on 2022-03-18.
^Engel, Hans-Peter (February 24, 2000). "X-15 - Hypersonic Research at the Edge of Space". NASA History.
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