Originally Posted by
tomgoodman
Boeing did try to get away with tandem pilot seating (like the B-47 had) in the XB- and YB-52s. Tex Johnston predicted that LeMay would insist on side-by-side seating for the production airplane, and he was correct.
Yeah, those prototypes were funny looking if you weren't around to have seen them first. I only flew the buff in the sim, but I was a comm/nav avionics tech on the G models at Castle when I was in.
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