Retirement of B-52, U-2 and F-117a Halted

Posted at: Sat May 20th, 2006

The House has voted to halt retirement of dozens of aircraft, which would have saved $2.6 billion by 2011. The Air Force planned to retire the older aircraft and use the money to upgrade other planes and buy new ones. But retiring the B-52 bomber, U-2 spy plane and F-117 stealth fighter could...