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Fuel flow charts tend to be a tad simplistic - L/D will vary with altitude if only for reasons of skin friction/wetted area.
Peak speed being at greater than 36,000 ft is plausible unlike the 20,000 ft I quoted previously. It would be very interesting indeed to see if that's airframe or power limited, and where exactly on the transonic L/D curve the worst point is compared to aircraft performance at that point. That may be indicated by any differences given between level and diving flight or varing with all-up weight.
However, I suspect that we may be getting into finger-breaking territory here given that the B-52 is still in service so I think we'd better leave the subject at this point.
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