[ken5050]

I may be phrasing this incorrectly, but what always amazed me about the B-52s on landing was how the landing gear turned..it was like the plane was flying sideways..

(hopefully someone can state it better, maybe posts pics..)

[cmdr straker]

it has a crosswind crab system that allows it to crab the gear. so it can land with high crosswinds. nose can be pointed 30 degrees left and land straight on gear its really something to experiance in flight

[Sequoyah101]

It can crab into the cross wind while still maintaining the gear in line with the runway center line.

Somewhere there is a BUFF pilot that knows a lot more than I do but that is my recollection.

They used to do oil burner runs across N. Dakota and Montana and use the rig I was working on as a target I guess. The dang things would just appear over the rolling hills and come right over the top of the rig so close you could count the screws and rivets if you had time. The engines would be screaming at low altitude and boiling black smoke. The winds were fierce. We had a Maule and could almost get airborne from a standstill. That was in about 1981.