Thread: The B52, old school , yet futureistic.

Ultimately, the BUFF has its quirks—one of which was on full display during that March training mission out of Louisiana. The issue with the stubborn stay-down wheels stemmed from a fascinating design feature on the aircraft that allows the plane to pivot its main landing gear, so that if it’s landing in a cross wind, the nose of the beast can face into the wind while its wheels line up with the runway. Those landing gear legs can’t fold up into the belly, though, unless the switches say they’re centered. And sometimes the switches that control the wheels just “get out of rig,”




Inside a training mission with a B-52 bomber, the aircraft that will not die | Popular Science (popsci.com)

Originally Posted by 3toes

In the mid eighties was in Hawaii and spent some time with a B52 crew who did a circuit of the globe each week for ‘weather monitoring purposes’. It amused me that despite the long potentially unlimited flight duration with inflight refuelling it did not have a toilet. The crew were provided with a bucket to share

There is an urinal, the bucket may have been that aircraft's crew addition.

Right behind where Tejada and Ripper work is a urinal. Ideally, no one poops on a B-52, even if the mission drags on for hours. Imodium can help.