Wanna Fly Your Own B52??

http://www.armyjeeps.net/b52g_bomber_link_simulator.htm

H.

Very very cool . . . the one thing I didnt see in the picture was the
USB cable for me to connect my PC to so run Flight Simulator 2004
(smile). Was it perhaps on the other side of the device?

Blue (despite being stuck under the hood) skies

John

In a previous article, Howard Eisenhauer said:
http://www.armyjeeps.net/b52g_bomber_link_simulator.htm

Is it in working condition?


--
Paul Tomblin http://xcski.com/blogs/pt/
It might not be practical, it might not be a good idea, but it could work.
Sort of like Windows.
-- berry

Howard Eisenhauer wrote:
http://www.armyjeeps.net/b52g_bomber_link_simulator.htm

There's another one that looks just like it in Rantoul, IL, at the
Octave Chanute Museum. They let you climb around inside it and
everything!
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Having had a chance to fly a BUFF sim while a cadet, I can say the things
bomb better than they handle. They roll like pigs and the engines take
forever to spool up. (course, it was 18 years ago, I wasn't a pilot then so
didn't really know any better, and still don't know anything about flying
jets). I did better as a bomb nav than I did as a pilot. Crashed on
landing on two attempts but got the nuke right in the pickle barrel!

Shawn


"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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Howard Eisenhauer wrote:
http://www.armyjeeps.net/b52g_bomber_link_simulator.htm

There's another one that looks just like it in Rantoul, IL, at the
Octave Chanute Museum. They let you climb around inside it and
everything!
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

ShawnD2112 wrote:
Having had a chance to fly a BUFF sim while a cadet, I can say the things
bomb better than they handle. They roll like pigs and the engines take
forever to spool up. (course, it was 18 years ago, I wasn't a pilot then so
didn't really know any better, and still don't know anything about flying
jets). I did better as a bomb nav than I did as a pilot. Crashed on
landing on two attempts but got the nuke right in the pickle barrel!

Shawn


Awhile ago I flew the KC-135 flight sim at Pease. It handled rather
nicely as long as I took into account swinging a few acres of wing to do
making for a few over controls. 135s don't like being rolled at 2
kilofeet. The FB-111 sim was more fun, but I had a lot less time on it
so I never did get the hang of it. I have some on the F-4E Sim at Hahn
AB and F-15 and C-130 sims at Eglin. If some rich person wants to by me
the F-15 sim I'd be happy to let them

The one sim I wish I could have flown was the A-10.

Apparently some people are bulding flight sims with cockpit parts from
various sources like e-bay. I'd like to know how realistic a home F-16
would be.

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired

On Wed, 04 May 2005 07:25:03 -0500, "Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired"
wrote:

Awhile ago I flew the KC-135 flight sim at Pease.

Heh, when I was in flight training out of Lebanon NH, we flew down to
Pease to land on that HUMONGOUS runway. It's only the one runway, but
it is just huge.

We were on short final and there was a Comanche in front of us that
had apparently just touched down, but we almost couldn't see it, it
was lost in the hugeness of the runway.

The tower suggested that we turn off at a taxiway 3/4's down the
length of the runway. The instructor told me to add power and "taxi"
in the air over the runway until we about reached it and then land and
turn off so that we didn't spend so much time putting along on the
runway.

We taxied back to the beginning of the runway for our takeoff and
launched. I think we nearly reached cruising altitude before we
passed the end of the runway. :-)

I just checked online for the runway length, 11,321 by 150 feet.
Sorta swallows you up when you're on it.

Corky Scott

Corky Scott wrote:
On Wed, 04 May 2005 07:25:03 -0500, "Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired"
wrote:


Awhile ago I flew the KC-135 flight sim at Pease.


Heh, when I was in flight training out of Lebanon NH, we flew down to
Pease to land on that HUMONGOUS runway. It's only the one runway, but
it is just huge.

We were on short final and there was a Comanche in front of us that
had apparently just touched down, but we almost couldn't see it, it
was lost in the hugeness of the runway.

The tower suggested that we turn off at a taxiway 3/4's down the
length of the runway. The instructor told me to add power and "taxi"
in the air over the runway until we about reached it and then land and
turn off so that we didn't spend so much time putting along on the
runway.

We taxied back to the beginning of the runway for our takeoff and
launched. I think we nearly reached cruising altitude before we
passed the end of the runway. :-)

I just checked online for the runway length, 11,321 by 150 feet.
Sorta swallows you up when you're on it.

Corky Scott

I always found it amusing to see aero club airplanes on bomber and MAC
bases use the main runways. They always look so tiny. Some air bases
like Langley limited the li'l planes to the first half of the runway
which makes me wonder if a big airplane has ever landed as a li'l one
was starting take off roll.

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired

No kidding, I did my Sim training there in what was White Hall. They
had an F4 and some instrument trainers at the time. Is the runway open
at Chanute to fly into for a visit?

Ron Gardner

Jay Honeck wrote:

Howard Eisenhauer wrote:
http://www.armyjeeps.net/b52g_bomber_link_simulator.htm

There's another one that looks just like it in Rantoul, IL, at the
Octave Chanute Museum. They let you climb around inside it and
everything!
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

No kidding, I did my Sim training there in what was White Hall. They
had an F4 and some instrument trainers at the time. Is the runway open
at Chanute to fly into for a visit?

Yep! It's called Chanute Air Museum now, and they have an outstanding
collection. Admission is absurdly cheap, and you can taxi right up to the
door.

It's one of the "fly-in museums" we've listed on our website he
http://alexisparkinn.com/fly-in_aviation_museums.htm
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"