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Omaha YouTuber faces lawsuit over death at his York nuclear silo
- WILLIAM SWETT York News-Times
- Nov 1, 2023
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A video from the York silo prior to renovations at the property.
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YORK — A YouTube influencer from Omaha faces a lawsuit after an electrician died during renovations on the influencer's "doomsday bunker."
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A view of the above-ground portion of the silo.
ZACH HAMMACK, Journal Star file photo
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Inside the former missile silo in York, before Youtube influencer Andrew Flair renovated the property.
ZACH HAMMACK, LINCOLN JOURNAL STAR
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Photos: Lincoln Air Force Base
Lincoln Air Force Base
This 1958 file photo shows Nebraska Air National Guard planes inside a hangar at the former Lincoln Air Force Base. Lincolnites can revisit the base this weekend with the Lincoln Air Force Base Legacy Project at 3833 North Park Road, inside the event space of Hangar I at Duncan Aviation’s East Campus.
Journal Star file photo
Lincoln Air Force Base
This 1957 file photo shows the control tower at the former Lincoln Air Force Base.
Journal Star file photo
Lincoln Air Force Base
This 1954 file photo shows planes on the runway at the former Lincoln Air Force Base.
Journal Star file photo
Lincoln Air Force Base
This 1955 file photo shows aircraft from the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps outside a hangar at the former Lincoln Air Force Base.
Journal Star file photo
InsideHangarB
One of SAC's B-47 Stratojets is shown in the North hangar for maintenance at Lincoln Air Force Base. The North hangar, built to accommodate up to four B-47s, has been renovated for temporary use by the 55th Wing's RC-135-variant jets while the runway at Offutt Air Force Base is rebuilt in 2021-22.
ROB BRANTING/LINCOLN AIR FORCE BASE LEGACY PROJECT
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A B-47 crew preps Stratojet is shown at Strategic Air Command's Lincoln Air Force Base in 1957. One of the hangars used for maintenance on the bombers from 1954-65 has been renovated for temporary use by the 55th Wing while the Offutt Air Force Base runway is rebuilt in 2021-22.
ROBERT PASKACH/THE WORLD-HERALD
LAFB Base Chapel interior
Rob Branting and other aviation history buffs are working toward transforming a former chapel in Air Park into a Lincoln Air Force Base museum.
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A B-47 bomber is shown in 1955 at Lincoln Air Force Base. One of the hangars used for maintenance on the bombers from 1954-65 has been renovated for temporary use by the 55th Wing while the Offutt Air Force Base runway is rebuilt in 2021-22.
THE WORLD-HERALD
Military plane crash
A runaway Navy jet gouged a hole through the mid-section of a P2V4 Navy patrol bomber and damaged a nearby plane on the Lincoln Air Force Base in 1955. Three people died and a hangar was destroyed by fire as a result of the accident.
Journal Star file photo
Lincoln Air Force Base
This panoramic photo shows the Lincoln Air Force Base in early 1951. The base was closed in 1966 as part of a nationwide reduction in military forces.
Journal Star file photo
B-47 Bomber
A B-47 stratojet nuzzles up to the boom of a fueler as the planes soar over the Nebraska countryside in 1955. The winged bomber of the 98th Strategic Aerospace Wing were stationed at the Lincoln Air Force Base until 1965, when the Air Force shut down the Lincoln base as part of a nationwide reduction in military forces.
Journal Star file photo
Moving Day
Karolyn Mills, a staff training specialist, and her children were among the first Job Corps personnel to move into the housing area of the deactivated Lincoln Air Force Base in 1966.
Journal Star file photo
Air Force Base Lincoln Airport
The U.S. Air Force produced a number of B-47s for use in the late 1950s. Many of the aircraft ended up at Lincoln Air Force Base.
Lincoln Journal star file photo
B-47
Three members of a B-47 bomber crew kill time with a game of Monopoly while waiting to go on alert at the Lincoln Air Force Base in 1957.
Courtesy photo
Air Force Base Lincoln Airport
At one point in the 1950s, at least 100 B-47s flew out of the Lincoln Air Force Base, which began as a World War II Army airfield northwest of the city. And before that, it was the Municipal Airport, with grass runways.
Journal Star file photo
Lincoln Air Force Base
An airman looks at an aircraft parking map in about 1960 at the Lincoln Air Force Base operations center.
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Lincoln Air Force Base
A bird's eye view of the Lincoln Air Force Base in about 1965. B-47 bombers are parked in the foreground of the photo and Arnold Heights, which was base housing, lies to the west.
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Lincoln Air Force Base
Missile crew members start their day with a briefing at the Lincoln Air Force Base in about 1964.
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Inside the former missile silo in York, before Youtube influencer Andrew Flair renovated the property.
- ZACH HAMMACK, LINCOLN JOURNAL STAR
A view of the above-ground portion of the silo.
- ZACH HAMMACK, Journal Star file photo
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