You can tell when the B52 is coming in, lol. Those EIGHT engines really make their presence known.
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Since October I think I've seen the B52 about 4 times. Then again, who knows what I missed while sleeping, away from the house or just not looking.
Tinker AFB is one of the major maintenance facilities for the Aircraft Logistics Command. So as the Air Force updates their airborne fleet we see all kinds of stuff.
Tinker is also the home base for most of the AWACS in service. There are 27 of them based here. IIRC, mos tof the AWACS 707 based fleet have been retrofitted to the new hardware/software. I believe now the Air Force is looking for a suitable replacement for the 707 airframe. Japan has a 737 based AWACS that is quite successful. I think they are also looking at the Navy's implementation of the 757 or 767. I forget which. We see a couple of those coming in now and then. There was one on FlightRadar24 a few weeks ago.
But, yeah, it is pretty cool!