B-52H 'Heavy Hauler' frontal view by junge1
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The B-52H has a wing area of 4000 square feet, and, as it can be seen, some serious flaps. The dual main gear in the front and rear of the aircraft's fuselage can be turned in either direction up to 22 degrees. This facilitates landings/take offs during cross-wind. For taxiing, only the front gear is used. During take off the wing lifts as the aircraft approaches flying speed and the wing wheels become airborne.
The cockpit is surprisingly crowded, with 8 throttles and gage sets, plus monitoring of the ECM, TV and other electronic countermeasures.
This picture was taken on Luke AFB, flight line on 18 Marc h 2011,
Sig...
Comments (34)
jarmila
interesting shot
blinkings
Nice shot of this beast.
buff626
i do not understand why you call the b-52 stratofortress a heavey hauler. i carries bomb etc. not cargo. i have heard and refered to the buff as a lot of things but never that.
DennisReed
Cool capture Sig, reminds me of my days growing up at March Aitforce Base in the late 50's!
sandra46
TERRIFIC SHOT
Faemike55
Fantastic capture, Sig!
morningglory
What a fantastic plane.
annie5
Always interesting to see your capture Sig! Excellent :)
UVDan
Sweeeet! I have never seen one in Arizona, but I used to watch them take off from Okinawa to bomb Vietnam in the sixties.
tempest967
Awesome. Love the "Buff" My dad was a jet engine mechanic and worked on these when they were stationed at Ellsworth AFB in South Dakota. As well as KC-135s and F111 Tactical Fighters.
junge1
@buff626. 'Heavy Hauler' is in quotes, that means that it is a name, a name given to this particular B-52 by its crew. I have always known B-52s as BUFF - Big Ugly Fat Fellow, and other, more graphic iterations used by military members, when it was save to do so.
junge1
In the 90s when many of the different models were being faced out there were 100s of them at the 'graveyard' at Davis-Monthan AFB in Tucson, Arizona.
npauling
A wonderful shot of this huge aircraft. Superb capture.
danapommet
Fantastic capture Sig and POV. It is a monster aircraft. Dana
auntietk
Wow. An impressive view of this huge plane! Excellent image.
beachzz
That's just HUGE!!! And I remember Luke, didn't know it was still in existence!!
lyron
Fantastic capture!!
bimm3d
great POV and fantastic photo!!
Ford604
nice ...
Minda
wow! sig another amazing shot,excellent POV..
bmac62
This has to be the best POV for this big bird. Amazing to think that next month will mark the 59th anniversary of the B-52's first flight.
kgb224
Stunning capture my friend.
bazza
Thats one big mother of a plane.. Nice capture!!
lior
So stunning shot!
renecyberdoc
awesome bird-.
flavia49
wonderful
debbielove
Perfectly cool shot, Sig! Outstanding... And is that a KC-135 over to the left..? Well taken.. Rob
farmerC
Exellent shot.
drifterlee
Cool plane and shot!
Richardphotos
of all the large jet engine aircraft of the military, the B52's are my favorite.I use to love seeing them come in real low to land at Carlswell AFB at Ft Worth.excellent work to get the entire wing span into the shot