The vertical tail on every B-52 bomber...folds to the right.
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It takes about 2 hours with a crane and a huge jackscrew to do it, but it's necessary to do any work on the rudder. On older models with the taller tail fin, it was also used to fit the bombers into hangers for more extensive maintenance work.
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Detail shot on a jackscrew tool with the tail fold area:
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This is amazingly cool. I'm a verified aviation junkie and never knew this.
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I'm an aviation nut, particularly where the USAF is concerned. And I learned it literally 5 minutes before verifying, finding more photos, and posting the info here.
Have you seen what U2 pilots eat in-flight?
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I spent a while at. SAC base and never saw this - but we had G models with the shorter tail. Maybe that reduced the need to fold it, and it was the 80’s so maybe by then the hangers could take the height.I'm an aviation nut, particularly where the USAF is concerned. And I learned it literally 5 minutes before verifying, finding more photos, and posting the info here.
I spent a while at. SAC base and never saw this - but we had G models with the shorter tail. Maybe that reduced the need to fold it, and it was the 80’s so maybe by then the hangers could take the height.
so does the -135s.The vertical tail on every B-52 bomber...folds to the right.
so does the -135s.
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It’s not just a Boeing thing, either.
S-3 Vikings did it.
And on the Saab.
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A "popping Johnny " has no water pump.
Thermodynamics move the coolant up and through radiator.
Maybe a few of y'all knew that.
Bastard! That one made me jump.The fear of long words is called Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.
Sorry. Didn't mean to cause you to experience Floccinaucinihilipilification.Bastard! That one made me jump.