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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce
I didn't know they could do that. Makes sense to have the wings into the wind for max lift.
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I had a look at the Haynes Manual for the B-52 on Amazon.
It's extremely expensive, so I won't be shelling out, but I was interested to see a description of the landing gear offset mechanism in one of the images of the book.
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here, go to image number six and embiggen.
I was surprised to see that it is a manually selected system. I expected it to be somehow connected to the Instrument Landing System (ILS) extended centre line beam, the localiser.
Admittedly, that might not be at the top of the list of available facilities when the aircraft is operated in a wartime environment, so perhaps it shouldn't come as too much of a surprise after all.