26 minutes ago, Skywatcher said:

Well, I found if I ask for a cheeseburger with no pickles sometimes a scenery might not install correctly. Maybe having the pickles removed causes incompatibility with the cheeseburger so now I always leave the pickles on.

Having the pickles and cheeseburger nearby is clearly the reason you were able to install the B52.

Mike

1 hour ago, Mike777 said:

Having the pickles and cheeseburger nearby is clearly the reason you were able to install the B52.

Mike

Now that I think about it you are probably totally correct. Never order a Big Mac though, causes all kinds of problems especially if you are trying to run FS in Win 10. I think that's what is happening in the other thread here regarding the Win 10 problem, he ordered a Big Mac.

22 hours ago, wdomke said:

 I had actually been able to use the Adobe AIR utility to install several aircraft, but there must have been a compatibility issue.

 No, no you haven't.. As mentioned far too many times already, Adobe Air has and never has had nothing to do with installing aircraft. The .air file in any and every FS aircraft is not an installer of ANY sort. From MS themselves "AIR files are used to provide flight dynamics data, in the form of coefficients and data tables, that determine the flying qualities of an aircraft."

Well, however it worked it worked.  It is possible that the times when I did use an installer it was something other than Adobe AIR installer and that might have come in with another program that had to be installed.  I don't know and it really doesn't matter right now.  The next challenge for me is getting the gauges I need to make the B-52 work.  It looks like they didn't come in with the download, or they are misidentified somewhere.  Not a problem.  I will find it.

I suspect the difficulty is that the later versions of Windows I have used with FS9 have thrown some curve balls at me.  My earliest downloaded aircraft were done in W98 and I am still running some of them.  I made the progression through W2000 and WXP to W7 and my computer was modified to run W10.  

At any rate I am grateful to all whose suggestions helped me to better understand what is going on.  I muddy the water by doing a lot of downloaded aircraft and I don't remember everything about how they were put in the system, but most work pretty well.  I don't use the ones that don't.

If anyone has successfully downloaded the ALPHA B-52G and B-52H and gotten it to run with gauges, I would appreciate anything you can tell me about locating the gauge files.  Normally these come in with a download, but I haven't found them yet, or at least the ones I found don't match the panel.cfg list.  It is not a huge issue--I will find a way to make it work.  I have tackled this one before.  It's just time-consuming.

Again, I do appreciate all who advised me on this.

Warren

1 hour ago, wdomke said:

If anyone has successfully downloaded the ALPHA B-52G and B-52H and gotten it to run with gauges, I would appreciate anything you can tell me about locating the gauge files.  Normally these come in with a download

 

I assume you are meaning you downloaded the file: ALPHA_B-52_Stratofortress_FS9.zip

It comes with 3 folders inside the zip file. Aircraft, Effects, Gauges. To get gauges working put the files from the Gauges folder (2 of them) in your FS Gauges folder.

Don't remove the pickles.