One embarrassed clergyman

[OCCWMF]

It wasn't an XISqn pilot at the helm was it?

[ORAC]

The wing/fuselage design of the B-52 is such that it takes off and lands with the fuselage at a flat, level attitude, the wing being angled upwards. This is a result of the four main gears being in tandem and requiring to leave and contact the ground at the same time.

Hence, when then the wing is trimmed for level flight, the fuselage is canted slightly downwards.

[Green Flash]

ORAC, many thanks, I thought I hadn't seen a 52 flare!

[ursa_major]

I hope to fk they can find Waddington next Saturday; like church fetes, one airfield looks very much like another.

No worries on that front, next weekend Waddington will be the bouncy castle centre of England, so unless Scampers decides to host a bouncy-castle expo in order to increase their attractiveness to aircraft, Waddington should be pretty safe.

What concerns me though is the prospect of the B-52 confusing Waddington & Wickenby and attempting to land at the latter..