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Balls 8

Bombers

Country of origin United States
ManufacturerBoeing
Balls 8 is a NASA Boeing NB-52B mothership which was retired in 2004 after almost 50 years of flying service with NASA. The aircraft is famous for dropping the X-15 aerospace research vehicle on 106 of the 199 X-15 program flights.

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Specifications

Weight
191 t
Length
47.7 m
Height
14.72 m
Wingspan
56.4 m
Top speed
722 km/h
Introduced
1955
First flight
1955
Entered service
1955

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Model data: Wikidata (CC0) and Wikipedia (CC BY-SA). Figures can differ between versions of the same weapon. · Q82954

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