The dump truck...
Amazing plane.
OVER THE GREAT PLAINS — Glance down from the ageless expanse of blue sky into the cockpit of the Air Force’s largest bomber, and the panorama is decidedly more dated — banks of steam gauges quiver above aluminum levers built during the Eisenhower administration, obsolete knobs and dials unused in decades gather dust, Dave Philipps reports on nytimes.com.
And much of the rest of the mammoth B-52 bomber is just as antiquated, Philipps wrote.
“It’s like stepping back in time,” said Capt. Lance Adsit, 28, the pilot. He banked left to start a mock bombing run, wrestling a control yoke forged decades before he was born. Time had stripped it entirely of paint.
For more: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/06/us/b-52s-us-air-force-bombers.html?smid=nytcore-iphone-share&smprod=nytcore-iphone
This evening, the B-52 was featured on bbc.com on PBS.
Why is this mighty plane still flying and scheduled for service for another 10-15 years or more?
One person summed it up this way, "It's like a dump truck -- nothing else has that type of range and capacity."
For the bbc video: http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-33766644
This evening, the B-52 was featured on bbc.com on PBS.
Why is this mighty plane still flying and scheduled for service for another 10-15 years or more?
One person summed it up this way, "It's like a dump truck -- nothing else has that type of range and capacity."
For the bbc video: http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-33766644
In the cockpit of a B-52.
Checking a B-52 tail.
Photos: Pinterest.
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