"~^ beancounter ~^" wrote in message
oups.com...
that was a wicked fireball...he musta
had quite a bit of fuel on board......how
much fuel did a b52 hold ?... probabally
a few thousand gallons.....

It has been a long time but I remember maximum peacetime landing weight as
270,000 pounds giving 180,000 pounds of airplane and 90,000 pounds of fuel.
Their gross weight was about 450,000 pounds. I have no idea where he was in
his flight plan.

Tex