10-06-2009, 02:19 PM
ngauger Wrote:MountainMan Wrote:I watched a B-52 moved to the Air Force Academy.geeze!! that wouldn't be good around here - especially if they didn't remove the wingshock:
Must have been a neat thing to watch though
The aircraft was flown into Peterson AFB in Colorado Springs, stripped out, the wings removed and placed on a separate flatbed from the fuselage, and the whole thing trucked to the Air Force Academy. The problem was the tail, five stories tall! An entire fleet of vehicles moved with it, especially the electrical company cherry picker trucks out in front raising or removing streetlights, stoplights and other electrical obstructions. It took an entire day to move those last few miles.