Thanks for that - I learned something new. :thumbs: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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!!!
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
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.
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 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
You know what FIGMO and OMGIF stands for, right?
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.
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
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