Posted on 03/25/2013 7:55:12 AM PDT by EnjoyingLife
A USAF B-52 Stratofortress from Barksdale AFB, Louisiana prepares to land at Nellis AFB, Nevada on January 24, 2013 during Red Flag 13-2. Via http://ChamorroBible.org/gpw/gpw-20051129.htm (medium, large, huge)
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Caitlin Kenney, 99th Air Base Wing Public Affairs, United States Air Force
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
That B-52 crash in 1994 involved some hotdog with a string of flight safety violations who did a vicious left turn at low airspeed/low altitude which made the wings dump all their lift & it fell out of the sky sideways.
One very preventable accident. The approach in this photo shows them following all the rules & it’s hazardous enough as it is.
That pic does not look “right” The Vegas hotels are a long ways from Nellis. They must use some trick photog to get that look
yes it was and we had left the base hospital with our son about 30 minutes befor it happened
there is a video on youtube that was taken in the yakima range of him fly way low.. i was sitting in the IP seat that flight.
Agreed. And landing at a 90 degree angle to the runway also looks problematic. ;)
Maybe it’s a telephoto lens but when a B-52 is that close to runway threshold & the nose is still lower than the tail, that’s one hot approach, IMO.
Note that it seems to use the same steep angle of approach, despite their being NOTHING around the airstrip...unlike the pic from Las Vegas..is this a normal angle-of-attack for landing?
that landing might have a little brown stain syndrome sure stopped instead of heading to the hammer head on a slow taxi to run up outboard engines dump chute and shut down outboards.. also looked like a very high crosswind
Motors?
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.
Hell, a lot of FReepers hadn’t been built either. LOL! P.S. I’m not one of them. My manufacture date was ‘47. Keel laid in late ‘46.
Worthy of a WOW. Just an impressive beast. One neat thing about the BUFF is that it could sustain high speed flight for so long. Pursuit aircraft of the day might be able to make a burst of speed much faster but not for long enough to catch her.
If I recall correctly, the pilot’s last words in that B-52 crash were, “Sorry guys”.........
The pilot knew he’d made a big mistake and knew exactly what was coming.
Thanks for the thread...always very cool.
I noted to someone the other day, while I was explaining the sad state of our aircraft, that some of the airplanes still in service are being flown by pilots that are easily grandsons of pilots who flew some of the same airplanes.
That's gotta void the warranty...
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