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Rolls-Royce to Re-Engine US B-52 Bomber Fleet (newatlas.com)
6 points by aj7 on Oct 20, 2021 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments


Bombers of Theseus? As the article says, "little is left of the original craft except for the airframe"


I believe there is at least one son-father-grandfather trio of B-52 pilots. Possibly more than one.


https://www.barksdale.af.mil/News/Features/Display/Article/3...

> Lieutenant Welch, a pilot with the 11th Bomb Squadron, will become the third consecutive generation of B-52 flight officers in his family.

In (distantly) related news, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Volkov_(cosmonaut) :

> Volkov is the first second-generation cosmonaut (and space walker), the son of cosmonaut Aleksandr Volkov.

and from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Garriott

> [Richard Garriott] became the second astronaut, and first from the United States, to have a parent who was also a space traveler.




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