Remarkable plane. I remember when the B52's were being built here, there was in
incident with th model that had the fold over tail. A company pilot took one
out for a production test filght and in flight the tail came unhinged and fell
over sideways, It had no ability to jettison fuel, so he was forced to circle
for several hours burning enough to get to landing weight. Still, he managed to
get it back in one piece.
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When I was stationed at Dyess AFB, the SAC units there had KC-135s and the
really old B-52Ds, which were retired decades ago. Those B-52Ds saw action in
Viet Nam, where they were fitted with bomb pylons between the inboard engines
and the fuselage. When those planes were on the ground, the skin on the
fuselage was wrinkled, and one of them on the alert ramp ruptured a fuel tank
with unarmed nukes on board. It became a Broken Arrow incident.
I got to watch one of these make a landing with a wingtip wheel stuck in the up
position. They raced a flatbed truck down the runway to catch the wingtip.
Really scary for the truck driver.
>
>I remember the old KC-135s, Chris. They would lift from Fairford and
>just be passing 1,000ft as they went feet wet, heading east. A slight
>exaggeration, I know, but there were NOTAMS out for their movements.
>
Chris
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
- Hunter S. Thompson
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