[Flightgear-devel] B52 around the earth flight

[Julien P. <jp...@gm...>]

I successfully flew around the earth with the B52, following the historic
flight flown by 3 B52 in January 1957.
It took me around 40 hours and 6 air to air refueling from a KC135 flown by
shavlir to make it. Only the first 3 aar were unsuccessful due to non
matching and oscillating speeds between mp aircraft. The remaining 3 were
perfect and lasted about 20 to 30 minutes to refuel about 3/4 of the tanks.

FG handled very well under the circumstances, no noticeable memory leaks,
but a few things did break down. (made for a more realistic flight ;-P) For
some reasons the 2D panel lost its lighting (red) over Hawaii and I was
never able to recover it (landed without instruments in a pitch black night)
and the property tree had a few nervous breakdowns as well, would stop
updating for a while...Other than that it was awesome.

You can see the path taken on FG tracker at:
http://fgfs.i-net.hu/modules/fgtracker/?FUNCT=FLIGHT&FLIGHTID=4015

You might have to zoom out a bit on google map to see the track. there is a
corrupted data point in there so you can't see the ground speed. I'll ask
KoverSrac to remove that point.

Here are some air to air refueling at dawn over Guam:
http://fgfs.i-net.hu/modules/xoopsgallery/view_album.php?set_albumName=album32

Regards,

Julien