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Message started by dpoos on Jun 7th, 2013 at 6:48pm

Title: Taxiways and B52
Post by dpoos on Jun 7th, 2013 at 6:48pm
Hi all,
It's been a log time since I've read through this site.  Quick question.  I've noticed that several of the airports where SAC B 52's were station (Anderson-Guam) for example, along with others, have taxiways leading up to active runways where the outriggers (wing landing gear) on the B 52's are rolling through the dirt and the taxiway signs on both sides of the taxiway as my B 52 is centered on the center stripe heading for the active.  Is this "real world"?
Thought 1:  The FSX airport taxiways at these airports are not accurate.
                 (my guess)
Thought 2:  The B-52 model is out of scale (doesn't appear that way to me)
Thought 3:  This is "real world" and I am wrong in thinking that the USAF would make it's "real world" pilots and aircrews have to dodge taxi signs, ditches, gas tanks, etc. in such a valuable piece of equipment in order to get to the active on a SAC or other USAF base.
Comments or answers?
Any good airport scenery out there for former SAC bases?
Note:  Just read a really good book on real world B-52 operations entitled "Flying from the Black Hole - The B52 Navigator-Bombardiers of Vietnam" Naval Institute Press by Robert O. Harder.

Thanks for any replies
Dean

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