There was another B52 simulator, but it was created for Producer/ director Stanley Kubrick for the film "Doctor Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb". He went to BOAC's Flight Training Centre (It was in the UK, hence the spelling of "centre") where they were able to use a Boeing 707 cockpit simulator to create a B52 cockpit The film crew added a few props to obtain a strikingly realistic B52 cockpit. I wonder how many pilots training on this would start talking like Major Kong (played by the one and only Slim Pickins), while "flying" the simulator.
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I used to hang out at Atlanta Terminal Station every Saturday I got a chance and remember this thing showing up on the passenger train. I believe it was on Southern's "Peach Queen" but it might have been an SCL train. From Atlanta to Macon they probably moved on the "Nancy Hanks". To Warner Robins the car moved as an extra. Warner Robins AFB had a bomb wing at the time and the car stayed several days to train crews. I have a few dark shots left from those days. I was a lowly airman in those days working a boring computer job and just knew there was some guy working and riding on that car who had the best job in the world.
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In 1972, I got to sit in the observer seat while a B-52 crew practiced in the simulator at K.I. Sawyer AFB, Michigan. Very realistic!
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That be perfect for me planes and trains. Man would I be in heaven.
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