Last Surviving B-52 Designer Has Gone West

Last Surviving B-52 Designer Has Gone West: Bob Withington Also Built 1941 Wind Tunnel, Served As Boeing VP In April, it will be time to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the first flight of the US Air Force's B-52 bomber. More remarkable, the venerable design is expected to remain in service another 20 years. The last of the original Boeing design team, whose proposal and balsa scale model won Air Force approval to build the plane, has passed away at age 94.