I Found 2 ABANDONED B-52 Bombers in the Desert | Mojave Desert Camp
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 ก.ย. 2024
- Hi Campers,
This week I go Camping/ Backpacking in "Authorized Government Area" in the Mojave Desert. I find 2 B-52 Bombers built in the 1950's and camp under one of them for the night! I explore the two Bombers/ cook a large Denny's Style Breakfast on the wing! I explore the Bombers and find the Cockpit of one and check it out!! I talk about Amazing history of this Flying Fortress while Camping and Exploring the wild Mojave Desert!
Keep Hiking!
Base Camp Chris
You know, not many folks can claim to have cracked an egg on the wing of a B52! Bravo!
One of the coolest videos you have ever done! I am really loving the history portions.
Thank you D Rob...very unique trip and experience for me!
@@basecampchris Keep the vids coming, love each and every one of them!!! much love and respect!
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This episode reminded me of The X Files. Very cool. Next time you need to solo overnight at Area 51!
B-52's fly over me almost daily here in Southeastern Montana. A live under a military operations area for the Rockwell B-1B Lancers and B-52H's. B-1's come from Ellsworth AFB in South Dakota while the 52's come from Minot AFB, ND.
Love watching them come in for landing with their wings actually flapping like a big bird. Was in the USAF. Thanks for the nuggets. Keep hiking.
Thanks DrDennis.
I’m a Vietnam veteran (pilot) 👩🏻✈️loved this camping episode 👍keep smiling and hiking !
Appreciate your service! Keeping On Hiking!
HEY CHERL GOLJA , WEREN'T THE B 52'S ORIGINALLY FITTED WITH PROP ENGINES ?
@carlray4809 The B-52 never had props. You're probably thinking of the Convair B-36 which was the last US propeller driven strategic bomber. You could also be thinking of the Russian Tupolev TU-95 which first flew a few months after the B-52.
That was quite awesome sir; I just could not keep from wondering about the brave men that spent time in those cockpits. Think About It!
You and me both! It was a good trip. Thank you!
That was so awesome Chris !!! That was pretty neat to say you cooked breakfast on a wing of a B52 bomber!!!
The o’l tent blended in quite well in the morning shot you had there !!! Great video !!!! See ya on the next one 👍
Thank you IH! Memorable trip!
I am used to your storey telling videos...but this exploration one is quite awesome and gone beyond anyone's imagination...just think of walking down an unchartered path in a desert, camp by the side of an abandoned airforce bomber-plane, sleep at the shadow of its wings, crack open eggs and cook breakfast on the bomber's wings, sit down in the shadow of its tail wing and enjoy the breakfast....other than those fighter pilots and airmen, probably you would be the only person to have cracked eggs and cooked food on the wings of an airforce plance....it is almost insane...a big thumbs up to you...what i love in your videos is the scarry stuff coupled with history....👍
Was waiting eagerly for something like this, Great Video and good information about past. ✈
Glad you liked it! Great history and experience.
Really great vid, Chris! "" "Toward the Unexplored", the Air Force motto.
Thanks Curt...fun production!
USAF motto: Aim High Fly-Fight-Win. Toward the Unknown was a movie about the Bell X-2, filmed at Edwards AFB. Starred William Holden.
Just awesome. This is one of my favorite ones yet. Just to be a part of that history laying in the sand is unreal. Keep it up
Glad you enjoyed it...amazing history.
Very cool. The aircraft was cut up that way to adhere to treaty agreements with the Soviet Union, just like the deactivated bombers at the aircraft graveyard in Tucson (Davis-Monthan AFB). The one you visited here had been transferred from its wartime command -- Strategic Air Command -- to the Air Force Systems Command, a research branch of the Air Force.
Another favorite one Chris! ❤ love it!!!!!! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽⛺️
Yay! Thank you! I had a good time out there! C
C-5M super galaxy,B-52 lancer,were my best ones to fly....the U2-MiG31 flew beautiful like a king!!!
Great production! make it fun to see the history behind it and a nice break to have a short interview included.
Glad you enjoyed it!
The second 'bonus' jet you found looks like a McDonnell F-101A Voodoo, used as a radar and photo target.
Thank you George! BCC
Great to see the flaps are once again raising more than just mushroom clouds lol breakfast and coffees
Perfect place for a Denny's Breakfast!
Until I watched your videos, I never knew anything about tents!!! I still prefer a motor home with ALL the amenities... including a fire place, TV, hot shower, etc. But, I can appreciate that it can be fun!!! Love your videos, Chris!! Stay safe!! 😊❤
Truly digging these Theme hikes(snap, snap) You ha your old reliable Alps tent. The Denny's Grand slam on the wing! Got to love it!! The plane history was cool. Be well and Trail on!!
Right on! Thanks Tracey...Keep Hiking!
Very, very cool and enjoyed all the history surrounding this adventure, thanks for sharing! :) :) P.S. That breakfast looked so yummy! :)
Glad you enjoyed it...fun trip.
I’m a Vietnam veteran (pilot) 👩🏻✈️great episode , keep on smiling and hiking 🇺🇸
This is the kind of channel I have been looking for. Thanks Chris! 😁😁 Looking forward for more videos 👍👍👍👍
Hey CODM - I appreciate the feedback! Keep Hiking!
Awesome location! I’ve spent a few nights there doing long exposure photography. Great video!
Awesome area to shoot Long exposure! Thank you!
Nice video Chris. Viewers, please read the description and note he tells you this is an "Authorized Government Area", and in the video he states this is "Stealth Camping". Noodle on that a bit.
🇬🇧 I love the old aircraft despite their being instrumental during war time, and machines of destruction, they are still amazing pieces of engineering & awe.
In Britain we had a B52 equivalent in the Lancaster Bomber or as it was termed, The Flying Fortress!
I've been up into the cockpit of one of these behemoths, I was only about 7 or 8 yrs old at the time but was totally swept away by these huge War Birds.
Seeing them fly over was something to see, you never forget the sheer size of them & the noise is deafening!
I'd hate to be on the ground during the war & hearing the Lancaster coming over .. it must have been terrifying.
At the Imperial War Museum they have a fully restored & beautifully maintained Lancaster with an enormous hanger all to itself!
War is dreadful in any places or time but there's something about Aircraft
That's compelling
The B-52s were Amazing machines
Cheers !
A B-52 and what looks like a F-101 VooDoo, at least going off the air intakes. Crazy they are in the desert like that,I never knew, that was some trip. Just stay safe out there, some of those old wrecks may look solid, but just watch your step. Once again outstanding production value and those cut scenes were fantastic, I do enjoy your camera work. Thanks for the fun.
I just looked up the F-101 VooDoo...awesome...that is it. Yes Thank you - will be careful out there. BCC
🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 Love our history. Love our military. Great video Chris! Enjoyed this one so much.
Agreed...very memorable trip!
As a retired Air Force pilot I appreciate this video.
That's awesome Garry...Great history with our Airforce! Thank you!
holy crap Chris, you outdid yourself! The Buff is a truly massive beast. I grew up near Fairchild AFB, a B52 base.
Thank you!! Wow...yes, the mighty B-52 Big Bird...amazing. I didn't know they had dedicated bases for the B-52...I'll look up FAFB! Thanks
@@basecampchris yep. They are now based at Minot AFB in North Dakota and Barksdale AFB in Louisiana!
@@basecampchris Fairchild AFB is tasked with aerial refueling now... planes like the KC-135 which is basically a Boeing 707 derivative are based there. Fairchild has been out of the bomber business for a while now.
Now, if you want to see a bunch of bombers in one museum, the best one I think is Castle Air Museum formerly Castle AFB, 115 miles south of Sacramento. They have ton of different bombers from World War II to mid-1970s as well as a lot of fighters and attack planes. You get to see everything in scale against each other. What was big in World War II is PUNY by today's standards! Heck, a B-52 is a junior next to a 747 or Airbus A380! They even have a British Vulcan delta bomber and one of the retired Guppy aircraft NASA contracted to fly rocket parts to Kennedy Space Center!
Those junkers in the desert? The military has that ALL OVER the southwestern US desert! I outside of Davis-Monthan AFB, there are more retired "photo bird" bombers on the Edwards AFB ranges!
Hello 👋 Chris, thank you for sharing another amazing and informative video. You certainly venture out to some amazing areas. I especially enjoyed your video at the Nevada drive Inn theater 🎥.
The very best to you. Stay safe out there.
🤗
Thank you Ronald! The drive in was a fun trip...I'd like to find another!! BCC
I stood next to a B52 D at Duxford imperial war museum here in the UK. I've never felt such awe- I couldn't see how it ever took off! I think it's the only time my grandson had been struck silent! Even getting on the Concorde there didn't impress him like the B52 Stratofortress;
Why on earth were these planes just dumped in the desert like trash?
If only that old B-52 could talk.😗✈
Thank you 🙏 for taking the hike, time , and always with a positive attitude towards smiles bringing you tube fans your wonderful and some dangerous adventures. God bless you
Your journeys are so fun and interesting thanks for letting me come along ❤
Great idea for a video. I really enjoyed it. Thank you Chris !
My pleasure! BCC
You must be near Edwards AFB. I was in the Air Force in SAC and worked around B-52's that were on alert at about 25 bases across the country during the Cold War. The B-52 is still assigned to 2 bases today. Minot AFB, North Dakota and in Louisiana at Barksdale AFB. The Vietnamese feared the Bomber because when the bombs were dropped it was like ROLLING THUNDER.... MRE's were developed in the 80's or early 90's When I was in the Air Force in the 70's we had C-rations in cans. Much of these rations were surplus WW-2 or Korean War vintage. The B-58 Hustler was a medium bomber in the sixties and deactivated in the 70s.
Maybe the best one yet. I love the combination of exploring and cooking. It has inspired me to step up my meals when I backpack. We don't have all these cool sights in the Northeast, although recently I saw a plane crash in the Catskills. Keep making them and we'll keep watching them! Great job!
Thank you Mark, what a compliment.
I’ll be careful that might be your last beer. Thank you for the video. It brings back a lot of good memories when I was in the Air Force how to crochet😊 for a C130.
Best breakfast with a nice view with coffee, congrats!!
Rhino Knows you Like fresh Veggies Me to O use lots of Baked Potatoes easy to Do and I put my fresh Broccoli in Mirowave about 3 minuites and its done very quickly you will Love this great tip Rhino Peace
Enjoyed your video! Will have to keep a eye out for that beer
Great video Chris! Keep the videos coming 👍🏻
Thanks! Will do!
I used to camp in those in the late 80's with my buddies. Spent the days exploring and running from base security. Good times.
I agree, one of your best adventures. Congrats
Thanks that was a unique one! Loved the old bombers!
Great info... really digging the hikes. I'll be hiking thru your area of expertise thanks for the info.. maybe I'll run into you ✌
Thank you! Enjoy your trip!
HAVING A BLAST WATCHING , ( IM AT THE BREAKFAST PART ) I SALUTE YOUR SPIRIT OF ADVENTURE !!!!! 👍💪❤🙏
Awesome. Still think camping with the B52s (band) would be cool too. Those planes were built solid. They landed one at an airfield near us, they needed to widen the runway for it. Those wings make a great table. 😀
Thank for watching...yeah, the B-52's playing on the wing would of been good!
That was cool! I was told that some place in Nevada there is a place that has abandoned armored vehicles and tanks laying around...nit sure where it is, but would make a good video! Thank you!
I really liked this video, Thank you. Chris!
What a great adventure, I found you because of the Alps Lynx as I have one. All the best from the UK
Another great video! I was wondering if you can do a video on tips for camping in the desert?
Great idea!...I'll keep that in mind! Thanks Mimi.
@@basecampchris thanks, I just figured because you one of few that frequent the desert. I’m in Arizona so I’m definitely interested!
Wow! What an adventure ✨️ thanks for an amazing video!
Glad you enjoyed it! I had a great time!!
Checked out the "Ad Inexplorata", Latin for "Into the Unknown" used by Edwards Airforce Base. So, it was used for possibly dropping the X 15's.
Man this show was the Bomb! Thank you for taking us along.
Love that! (the Bomb) welcome..BCC
Thanks for sharing another cool adventure Chris! michelada Is a very popular beer mix down here in México, it tastes better using the natural ingredients, but this SOL one Is a good alternative. You don't seem to use spicy stuff when cooking, so I'm not sure if you liked It at all, but Is always good thing to try something new. Cheers AND keep hicking!
Good to know, Ismael! Thanks for watching.
Pretty cool 😎
I was never in the air force, but I did get a B in Latin at school. "Towards the unexplored" 👍🏼
Awesome...Thank you Aggy!
Did you have to show your military I.D. to access Edward's AFB? Awesome job capturing the eerie silhouettes of the bombers against the rising sun 🌄 If only the aluminum skin could talk! Thanks for your great cinematography Chris!
I could not tell you how many times I refeuled B52 s in the early 70's. Love the video. 10 months later. Close to Edward's and George afbs. Ret. from af plant 42......m......
27:15 That symbol was the patch worn by pilots at Chuck Yeager's test pilot school at Edwards Air Force Base. My cousin, an Air Force captain, attended there during the 60's and gave me one of those patches. The Latin phrase means (roughly) "Toward the Unexplored." That's a whole lot of aluminum scrap sitting out there on the dry lake. Probably worth some serious bucks. Stay safe out there.
Hiya. Famcinating adventure. Thank you very much. Not sure where this place is, but will look forward to your next bonus dereliction duty
Glad you enjoyed it....derelicition duty, lol...like that.
I was TDY to Guam. I seen the B-52’s takeoff to go to Vietnam. I was there for 90 days. If the plane didn’t come back, they say they got transferred and not shot down hush-hush
You had the perfect table for breakfast. So cool
Those Bombers are amazing!
Chris, this reminds me a bit of the James Stewart film, "Flight of the Phoenix"! I highly recommend it.
Awesome Video Chris, I wish I Had been There. 🎃
Ive seen enough b-52s in my life that i prefer not to see one while i sleep. But very cool area and nice scenery
Thanks TPC, glad I shot the vid when I did the temps are going up fast there...106 by next week.
I have spent over 21 years at Boeing commercial, airplanes are part of my DNA..Thanks..
Very cool video. By the way my dad was attached to the Strategic Air Command. He passed 4 yrs ago at 83.
The Flying Fortress is what they were called. I worked for an elderly gentleman who flew them in WW2. Incredible stories he told me.
Your last aircraft looks to be a F-101 McDonald Douglas fighter
I know this is an old video but I loved it. You reminded me of a teenage boy who just saw his first WW11 aircraft. Very refreshing. BTW there is a WW11 aircraft resting place in upstate NY. Went there in college. I was a history major so it was really interesting.
GREAT. CAMPING.
I’m a Vietnam veteran (pilot)👩🏻✈️great episode keep smiling and camping 👍
Thanks Cherl!
Great video chris, Sue Madre
Thanks 👍
I like the sound effects of the simulated jet engines.( stove )
A shame to see them majestic planes in that condition 😪
Thanks Chris!
You bet!
Chris you rock!
MREs came after or about the same time as LRRP Rations During Vietnam War. During which time we were eating C rations canned in the 1940's which were OK.
Thanks for this video! I had no idea they were out there. I was able to hike out and find them and had a great time! Keep the adventures coming.
Thanks, will do!
K rations were discontinued near the end of WWII, in favor of C rations. Still using C rations during Vietnam. MRE’s were adopted in 1975.
Good to know! Thanks Sniper.
Last one was F101 voodoo. Thanks for the videos
so cool yet almost frighting knowing they carried Thermo Nuclear bombs though as for that part of history My father was station in Weisbahn guarding "unknown missiles" in germany 1957-1959 1st Infantry division so these may have flown over him
I was stationed at Edwards AFB in the early 80's and my barracks and I spent a lot of time partying there! Brings a lot of good memories ,both airframes we're still intact ,we used to climb up on the left wing of the 52 Still intact.......there eoud
Creative stealth 👍🏾
Thanks! love the history.
Very nice kitchen .🤓😎
DID YOU SEE PANCHO BARNES WANDERING AROUND.?
That’s nuts!
totally!
Should have climbed up on the wing for the view during breakfast.
The bonus plane is definitely a F-104 Voodoo. The Canadian Forces airbase at Comox on Vancouver Island was still using them for training purposes 30 years ago and we saw two of them flying low altitude pursuit while cross country skiing in the mountains near there.
Thank you Douglas! Good to know.... must of been an awesome sight to see them flying above the mountains in winter.
F-101.
@@jaytolbert7538 Yup.
The F-104 was the Starfighter
Very interesting video 👍
Thanks for visiting! Keep Hiking!
Great video
Thanks!
Nice special interest piece
Great experience!
Thank you Oli !
Great video!
Boeing made great aircraft back then, long before CGI, my Father was a test flight engineer for them. He helped certify many of their crafts in the 70's and 80's
When I was Alaska we trade warm Rainier beer pretty good when you ain't got no other choices!
Last plane looks like a F101 Voodoo
The STRATOFORTRESS is my favorite
Whatta name! a giant flying fortress!