The forward section of bomb doors can be removed and scientific test equipment installed in their place. I saw it done once. "What was the nature of the equipment?" I didn't have a "need to know" so they didn't even respond to my question. Acted like I wasn't even standing there. Also cameras can be installed in the bomb bay.
Wheel wells are an alternate bail-out location if seats don't work. Notice the door leading out onto the catwalk and the hand hold along the catwalk. Can you imagine being out there in flight? That scene with Chill Wills in the movie Dr Stangelove was totally realistic.
At 3:05, somebody has been flipping switches in the cockpit. The red "Bail-out" light is illuminated in the wheel-well along the cat-walk. The B-52 has a catwalk left over from when they had a tail gunner on the D models....or if a crew member was trouble shooting something in the bomb-bay (weapons bay) in flight. The pilot could illuminate the bail-out light to let them know to hit the silk NOW. Wheel wells are an alternate bail-out location if seats don't work.
Landing gear down-lock safety pins can fall out of the gear, as shown. They should be installed the other way....or be tied in by the streamer. Just sayin.
@Sh4dowX76 It's wrong. They can fall out when installed like that and they HAVE fallen out when installed like that. You didn't see it happen in your four years? You were lucky. If you're talking about the steering by-pass pins without Remove Before Flight streamers....we always used to have them tied to the downlock streamers. Steering by-pass and forward downlock were joined at the hip. Navigator, "Six and two, counted and stowed."
We never refered to fuel capacity in gallons....always in pounds. I couldn't even tell you the capacity in gallons....but I remember that 240,000 pounds was a common fuel load. 220,000 pounds also. I think 312,000 lbs was max fuel weight. 550,000 lbs max aircraft weight. Back then the C-5 and the E-4 were the only aircraft that could carry more fuel. Once airborne the Buff would take on more fuel and max out for the long trip to the target.
We never called them outrigger wheels. We just called them wing tip landing gear...or tip gear for short. H models rarely use them. D models used them all the time because the wing was more flexible on the older D models.
They were at Carswell AFB in Fort Worth Texas when I was there in the early '80's. When Carswell was closed by Bush sr, some went to Barksdale AFB Louisiana and some to ....Offut AFB Nebraska?
this gave me a bomber
HMHLongboarderz 3 months ago
I LOVE B-52.
DEVASTATOR478 6 months ago
This jet brings me back terrible maintenance memories. I hated working on it. Btw it doesn't carry "any" weapon in the U.S. arsenal lol.
Sh4dowX76 7 months ago
I miss that jet.
djAnakin 8 months ago
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"Yeah, steal wire strung everywhere."
JM: Sorry, it should be "steel" wire strung everywhere. LOL
JetMechMA 11 months ago
Many people don't know that the B-52 is a "Fly by wire" aircraft. Yeah, steal wire strung everywhere.
JetMechMA 11 months ago
The forward section of bomb doors can be removed and scientific test equipment installed in their place. I saw it done once. "What was the nature of the equipment?" I didn't have a "need to know" so they didn't even respond to my question. Acted like I wasn't even standing there. Also cameras can be installed in the bomb bay.
JetMechMA 11 months ago
Wheel wells are an alternate bail-out location if seats don't work. Notice the door leading out onto the catwalk and the hand hold along the catwalk. Can you imagine being out there in flight? That scene with Chill Wills in the movie Dr Stangelove was totally realistic.
JetMechMA 11 months ago
At 3:05, somebody has been flipping switches in the cockpit. The red "Bail-out" light is illuminated in the wheel-well along the cat-walk. The B-52 has a catwalk left over from when they had a tail gunner on the D models....or if a crew member was trouble shooting something in the bomb-bay (weapons bay) in flight. The pilot could illuminate the bail-out light to let them know to hit the silk NOW. Wheel wells are an alternate bail-out location if seats don't work.
JetMechMA 11 months ago
Landing gear down-lock safety pins can fall out of the gear, as shown. They should be installed the other way....or be tied in by the streamer. Just sayin.
JetMechMA 11 months ago
@JetMechMA Worked on them for 4 years straight and they are always installed like that. Nothing has ever gone wrong the 4 years I was there...
Sh4dowX76 7 months ago
@Sh4dowX76 It's wrong. They can fall out when installed like that and they HAVE fallen out when installed like that. You didn't see it happen in your four years? You were lucky. If you're talking about the steering by-pass pins without Remove Before Flight streamers....we always used to have them tied to the downlock streamers. Steering by-pass and forward downlock were joined at the hip. Navigator, "Six and two, counted and stowed."
JetMechMA 7 months ago
Big no-no at 2:30.....steering by-pass pins installed without "Remove Before Flight" streamers.
JetMechMA 11 months ago
We never refered to fuel capacity in gallons....always in pounds. I couldn't even tell you the capacity in gallons....but I remember that 240,000 pounds was a common fuel load. 220,000 pounds also. I think 312,000 lbs was max fuel weight. 550,000 lbs max aircraft weight. Back then the C-5 and the E-4 were the only aircraft that could carry more fuel. Once airborne the Buff would take on more fuel and max out for the long trip to the target.
JetMechMA 11 months ago
We never called them outrigger wheels. We just called them wing tip landing gear...or tip gear for short. H models rarely use them. D models used them all the time because the wing was more flexible on the older D models.
JetMechMA 11 months ago
They were at Carswell AFB in Fort Worth Texas when I was there in the early '80's. When Carswell was closed by Bush sr, some went to Barksdale AFB Louisiana and some to ....Offut AFB Nebraska?
JetMechMA 11 months ago
It's called FLIR and EVS. Foward Looking Infrared and Electro-optical Vewing System.
JetMechMA 11 months ago
Cool, I've gone for a ride-along on 1016 when 1016 was stationed at Carswell AFB in the Early '80s.
JetMechMA 11 months ago