The the B52 Stratofortess

[kanabco]

I love this plane... it may have a 100 year lifespan because it first flew in 1952... so who knows.
But I do recall reading how confounded the Soviets were with the landing gear. They assumed that it was limited to no-crosswind landings because you could not possibly land something like that with belly-only wheel gear.

I found this the other day

cute

This Video Shows That You Don't Fly A B-52 You Wrestle It Around The Sky

BTW gyros keep the gear canted with the runway stripe.

 

[Chomsky]

I love this plane... it may have a 100 year lifespan because it first flew in 1952... so who knows.
But I do recall reading how confounded the Soviets were with the landing gear. They assumed that it was limited to no-crosswind landings because you could not possibly land something like that with belly-only wheel gear.

I found this the other day

cute

This Video Shows That You Don't Fly A B-52 You Wrestle It Around The Sky

BTW gyros keep the gear canted with the runway stripe.

Thanks for that - I learned something new. :thumbs:

I've always loved that plane, and every kid that built model airplanes back in the day *had* to have one of those!

 

[Crosscheck]

In the 70's I was a flight control and guidance specialist for the Hound-Dog AGM-28A nuclear missile that flew underneath the wings of the B-52.

The turbojet engine of the missile would be used to help get the big bird off the ground. Then the fuel tank on the missile would be refilled by the B-52 wing fuel tanks.

 

[Beaudreaux]

I love this plane... it may have a 100 year lifespan because it first flew in 1952... so who knows.
But I do recall reading how confounded the Soviets were with the landing gear. They assumed that it was limited to no-crosswind landings because you could not possibly land something like that with belly-only wheel gear.

I found this the other day

cute

This Video Shows That You Don't Fly A B-52 You Wrestle It Around The Sky

BTW gyros keep the gear canted with the runway stripe.

Here's one crabbing in at Anderson AFB, Guam;

 

[azgreg]

That's one cool ****ing airplane.

 

[RogueWarrior]

Always wondered why they didn't upgrade the engines. ****ing wood stove pipes.

I guess the corporations could not find the right people to bribe.

 

[jet57]

I love this plane... it may have a 100 year lifespan because it first flew in 1952... so who knows.
But I do recall reading how confounded the Soviets were with the landing gear. They assumed that it was limited to no-crosswind landings because you could not possibly land something like that with belly-only wheel gear.

I found this the other day

cute

This Video Shows That You Don't Fly A B-52 You Wrestle It Around The Sky

BTW gyros keep the gear canted with the runway stripe.

Very nice, thanks for posting it. Those guys don't seem to be having too much trouble with it, but with a wing span of almost 200 feet, those things must be like sails in windy conditions.

 

[Casper]

I love this plane... it may have a 100 year lifespan because it first flew in 1952... so who knows.
But I do recall reading how confounded the Soviets were with the landing gear. They assumed that it was limited to no-crosswind landings because you could not possibly land something like that with belly-only wheel gear.

I found this the other day

cute

This Video Shows That You Don't Fly A B-52 You Wrestle It Around The Sky

BTW gyros keep the gear canted with the runway stripe.

Cool plane, my father flew them in the Air Force with SAC and I got to go board for a tour more than once. As life goes in circles I wrote (along with another writer) the technical manual on the CITS system added to the B52H model that was taken off the B1B, which I also produced the manuals for, (Electrical, Nav Aides, Hydraulics, and CITS systems), got to fly on that one, cool beans I tell ya.

 

[PirateMk1]

Always wondered why they didn't upgrade the engines. ****ing wood stove pipes.

I guess the corporations could not find the right people to bribe.

It was congress. They didn't think they were going to be in the inventory this long. Otherwise they would have upgraded the engines to turbofans a loooong time ago.

 

[Thoreau72]

Always wondered why they didn't upgrade the engines. ****ing wood stove pipes.

I guess the corporations could not find the right people to bribe.

My, how cynical.

Actually they did upgrade to turbofans, I think with the "H" model of the type. And I'm thinking that's all that are in service today, H models.

 

[gdgyva]

i was stationed at Minot AFB North Dakota

We had a contingent of B52's there

Great except for when they flew directly over our little base quarters, and woke up my three kids

they were so damn LOUD

At times i wanted to strangle the guys that sent them directly over my house

lol

 

[kanabco]

In the 70's I was a flight control and guidance specialist for the Hound-Dog AGM-28A nuclear missile that flew underneath the wings of the B-52.

The turbojet engine of the missile would be used to help get the big bird off the ground. Then the fuel tank on the missile would be refilled by the B-52 wing fuel tanks.

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LOL!!! I just thought of this... the 52 has eight engines yes? So when they carried two of these cruisers under wing they has TEN engines on take off.

My how I am going to use this in military trivia convos!!!

 

[RogueWarrior]

LOL!!! I just thought of this... the 52 has eight engines yes? So when they carried two of these cruisers under wing they has TEN engines on take off.

My how I am going to use this in military trivia convos!!!

Name the bomber that did have 10 engines.

 

[Crosscheck]

i was stationed at Minot AFB North Dakota

We had a contingent of B52's there

Great except for when they flew directly over our little base quarters, and woke up my three kids

they were so damn LOUD

At times i wanted to strangle the guys that sent them directly over my house

lol

I remember that upon getting orders to Minot the phrase was "FIGMO" backwards.

 

[PirateMk1]

Name the bomber that did have 10 engines.

Convair B36 six Pratt and Whitney Radials and 4 GE J79s. I don't know the Type of Radials I know they either the 18 or 21 cylinder big boys. They had major problems with cooling them sufficiently. I think they Convair B60 May have had 10 J79's to try and compete with the B52. This is all off the top of my head.

 

[Thoreau72]

Convair B36 six Pratt and Whitney Radials and 4 GE J79s. I don't know the Type of Radials I know they either the 18 or 21 cylinder big boys. They had major problems with cooling them sufficiently. I think they Convair B60 May have had 10 J79's to try and compete with the B52. This is all off the top of my head.

The Pratts were 9 cylinders per row, Wrights were 7 per row.

I think 4360's were the biggest, 36 cylinders and 72 spark plugs, also on B-29 and others.

 

[PirateMk1]

The Pratts were 9 cylinders per row, Wrights were 7 per row.

I think 4360's were the biggest, 36 cylinders and 72 spark plugs, also on B-29 and others.

I just looked the engine up. Wasp Major 4360 28 cylinders 7x4 putting out between 2650 and 4300 horsepower. They displaced 71.489liters or 4362.5 cubic inches. Weighed in at about 3800lbs. They mounted them backwards on the B.36 hence why they had trouble cooling them and why they had icing trouble with the carburetors.

I didn't know that about the Curtis Wright motors having 9 cylinders a row and Pratt and Whitney having 7.

 

[Risky Thicket]

I remember that upon getting orders to Minot the phrase was "FIGMO" backwards.

I was at Offutt for over a year. People who would come TDY from Minot in winter loved the balmy weather in Omaha. This is back when Omaha got a lot of snow. Duty in Minot was slightly better than Thule, I'm told.

We once had a pickup order on a chaplain from Minot. The guy went AWOL! Think the weather had anything to do with it? :lamo

 

[Crosscheck]

I was at Offutt for over a year. People who would come TDY from Minot in winter loved the balmy weather in Omaha. This is back when Omaha got a lot of snow. Duty in Minot was slightly better than Thule, I'm told.

We once had a pickup order on a chaplain from Minot. The guy went AWOL! Think the weather had anything to do with it? :lamo

You know what FIGMO and OMGIF stands for, right?

 

[Risky Thicket]

You know what FIGMO and OMGIF stands for, right?

Indeed, that's what I said when I got orders to Offutt when it was SAC HQ.

 

[Thoreau72]

I just looked the engine up. Wasp Major 4360 28 cylinders 7x4 putting out between 2650 and 4300 horsepower. They displaced 71.489liters or 4362.5 cubic inches. Weighed in at about 3800lbs. They mounted them backwards on the B.36 hence why they had trouble cooling them and why they had icing trouble with the carburetors.

I didn't know that about the Curtis Wright motors having 9 cylinders a row and Pratt and Whitney having 7.

It was that way for the twin row like the R2800 Pratt, versus its competition from the Wright engines. I've flown both, but mostly Pratts. Perhaps in the 4 row engine they changed it? I've only had experience with R1340 and smaller.

 

[gdgyva]

I was at Offutt for over a year. People who would come TDY from Minot in winter loved the balmy weather in Omaha. This is back when Omaha got a lot of snow. Duty in Minot was slightly better than Thule, I'm told.

We once had a pickup order on a chaplain from Minot. The guy went AWOL! Think the weather had anything to do with it? :lamo

Why not Minot?

Freezin' is the reason.....

I went from one of the best best assignments you can get, to Minot....karma right?

The one thing I will say about North Dakota...their state fair back then was the bomb

But yeah...the winters....they were hell on wheels