IMAGES OF OUR PAST - CAPTAIN GEORGE LUCK, NATIVE OF DUBLIN AND WRIGHTSVILLE, GA. FLYING HIS B-52, THE MOTHERSHIP OF THE X-1. George E. Luck was a United States Air Force pilot who flew the B-52 Stratofortress on 41 twenty-four hours missions, with nuclear arms. Luck would later become the B-52 commander on mothership flights for the X-24 rocketplane program.