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Who couldn't love this lots of smoke and noise

What year was it?

BEAUTIFUL - 5 2

Trying to burn JP-4 & water/methanol = smoke, extra noise and a little thrust. TF33s were a much efficient power plants and no need to carry 8000+lbs of water . Always surprised me that USAF did not convert all B-52s (and KC-135A) to TF33 in early to mid 60s.

Great memories. Thanks Guns!

The Griff! 668th BMW, my alma mater, ‘89-‘92. Great Italian food in the town of Rome, NY!

in case of an thermonuclear war, what was their job? Id assume that ICBMs wouldnt miss enough shit worth bombing

thats some serious turbulences out there

Possibly one of the coolest videos on TH-cam… wow

The awesome show of freedom.

Never gets Old... Loring AFB 1969 Utapao RTNB 70-71 Engine Man

Wish Griffiss was still open. Those were the days

I finished up my 4 years at Loring. Never got to watch the birds take off, did all my time there helping them stay ready to take off. My last day in the AF I spent the night in the office as NCO on duty, took a no notice ORI call, called in the office crew, as they came in I went out and processed out of the Air Force.

Another impressive sight an Elaphant Walk and launch of F4 Phantoms

3:30 taking off nose-down, I love it. BUFF does what she wants!

Ah Memories..... USAF B-52 Veteran Amazingly...not one flame out or blown engine....

I was tower controller at Grand Forks from 80 to 84. The incredible thing was if it was a calm day the smoke would hang for hours. We did a launch in '83 and flushed everything except for a couple of bombers and tankers. It was 20 some aircraft and It was a rwy 17 departure so they all climbed out south and east to avoid the missile fields to the west. It was amazing. I have an old super 8 movie I shot if I could only find it!

I’ve always been overly interested in SAC. From its organization to its installations. I was born in 1990, so I was to young to see it for myself. Its hard to imagine the sheer size of the command. I believe there are around 85 b52s in service at 3 bases today. To think there where 400 at one time spread across 50 bases is mind boggling. Just wish there was more documentary’s.

Excellent, vintage footage.

I miss hearing the B52's fly over our house all the time

Wowww maaan! Cant believe I missed this.

Looks like a Coco. Saw it once at Westover. I think it was in '64. Didn't get near the flight line too often as I worked at COC (the 8th AF command post) the site (in the mountain)

Чадят-то, блин, как паровозы, не то, что наши тушки.

Right next door to us in Utica over at GAFB..lots of power there...wow. Imagine what "we" could have poured onto an enemy with just the Griffis gang alone.

Man I miss the Griff....I still go up on Star Hill and look and wait for em to come back I can see em still to this day from the view of the overlook!

Global shield looks more like global warming! Love the '52, but my fave will always be the Galaxy! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

That was apocalyptic sight, guys. Fallout feel intensifies.

Blytheville 80-84. G's rule!

It ALL started @ the 93rd in those days!

Memories, memories, memories . . . . of 4000+hrs in the old D model, many tours and 160+ missions in "Nam," but as almost all of us would readily agree, the thing we old crewdogs miss the most was the incredible camaraderie of probably the most highly trained group of professional aviators ever assembled. Even the endless 7-day alert tours were bearable due to the many shared experiences and life- long friendships that still remain to this day. I don't think any of us would've missed it, for sure!

when you see these boys leaving and taking tankers with them sombody is getting there ass kicked in

My dad was pilot of plane 2. Got in a jet wash on take off.....watch the wing dip

Mike Brannick, did you by chance run into Lt. Col. Jim Denson? He flew the B-58 and B-52. He came into the service as an Army artillery man and entered pilot training. I worked with him after he retired from the Air Force.

I just love the responses to these types of videos, especially about S.A.C. bombers and tankers. I am a S.A.C. brat and I can tell you that readiness came at the cost of lives all to often. To all here who were pilots, crewmembers, maintenance, ordnance and security personnel. Good job! I am forever grateful to you all. To the men and women who served so faithfully, your service is not forgotten.

So if the year of the video shoot was right, and I'll agree on the paint scheme limiting it down, good ol' 501. I was in the best seat in the house, E.O.R. truck. These guys were up on the hill I believe. If you wanted to know what it felt like being there and cheering on the planes until the last one that wobbled it way airborne, we might have sounded like idiots to anyone else that might have overheard us but to a person we took everything we did to heart and gave everything we could to the job. SAC was such a great command to be brought up in, setting standards for lots of careers, sad how it was stabbed in the back in a dark alley and left alone to die.

More than 10% of the ENTIRE CURRENT FLEET of B-52!

The place you didn't want to be was #2 in the 3 ship. The pucker factor could get pretty high especially when the visibility was poor.

I was at Griffiss AFB 63/65 on top of the hill in the shop that repaired, issued the survival equipment if they had to bailout.

last one off the ground has to clean the air.

Back in 1964 they were called Crome Dome alerts if I recall and we had to have the birds off in a very short time and they had H-bombs on them at that time. I worked on the of the hill and could see all the action of the alert.

Thanks for posting this. My Dad was stationed at Griffiss, and I remember watching MITOs from this observation point when I was a kid. When did you shoot this video?

Fairchild 91 to 95

Been there, done that. 20 year career in SAC flying B-52s. The smoke is largely due to water injection into the engines to increase thrust by increasing the mass expelled by the engines. Made it a bit hard to see after the first few if the wind wasn't strong enough to blow it away. Awake turbulence also added to the excitement. It was easy to over control the aircraft and bet a harmonic oscillation going.

After President Reagan took office, In 1982 we finally had spare parts for all of our 30 FB-111 bombers and KC-135's. After working all night for 3 days, me and a friend went off base to where the end of the run way and off base and watched all 30 FB-111s and 15 KC-135s take off over our heads at 100 feet. MITO style. Oh how I wished we had cameras like today!! We were crew chiefs on the FB-111A,and we had a party that morning, getting off duty and a case of Bud.!! Once in a life time experience. Awesome!!

I was stationed at the "Griff" from 1978 to 1981. Sad the place shut down.

Thanks to all you Griffis USAF SAC guys I miss your flying over Utica. I now fish for trout in the Mohawk . The Chestnut AVe bridge is new.The ethylene glyclol antifreeze is cleaned up and there's an industrial park at the place.

I really miss my Air Force brat days! lol

Love it, thanks for sharing. Mather 84-85 320 OMS B-52

March 1980 - 82. I lived on base maybe 50 yards from the flight line. KC-135's took off about 3:00 am, a Buff might have been doing engine runs most of the hours before this, then the B-52's took off around 5:00 am. I didn't get much sleep, but I forgot about that whenever I saw the B-52 in flight.

Finally Found the Date. Jan 28. 1983. 5 killed And 8 injured. I was on base the day it happened. A Very Sad Day.