B-52 navigator clocks 10,000 hours Posted on March 9, 2017 by alert5 Lt. Col. Steven R. Smith, a B-52 navigator instructor with the 93rd Bomb Squadron, clock 10,000 flight hours on the bomber on Mar. 3. U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Steve Smith, 93rd Bomb Squadron flight instructor, fields questions from the media at Barksdale Air Force Base, La., March 3, 2017. Smith just returned from a training mission where he surpassed 10,000 flight hours in the B-52 Stratofortress. During his career, Smith helped train more than 1800 B-52 air crew members. He was also instrumental in developing a targeting pod for the jet that improved weapon accuracy. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Ted Daigle/Released) Related posts (Automatically Generated): F-15E pilot clocks 3,000 hours Father of the B-52 passed away WAH-64 instructor clocks 7,000 hours F-15E WSO clocks 1,000 combat hours Two B-52s flew non-stop to Australia in a 44-hour mission Only F-15E with air-to-air kill clocks 12,000 flight hours