Inside Most Feared US Air Force Bomber Flying at Extreme Altitudes
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Thanks to all of the crews that put that magic in the air and keep us safe. Amen
Pretty awesome to see !!!! Thanks to all of Service members who protect our families and friends ❤
I'm a former SAC SP from Carswell AFB, TX. Spent 4 years with the B 52D. Beautiful old aircraft!
spent several years at Grand Forks AFB Great place buy really cold in the winter
SAC brat, I was born at Carswell AFB in ‘78 before were stationed at Anderson AFB. Dad was a B-52 RN. The SAC community is a tight one. Thank you for your service sir
Thank you ,@jennifer8724 👍🇺🇸
I was also on the Dirty Dogs in the '70s. Real BUFFs have tall tails, big bellies, water injection, and quad 50's.
yes me too aircraft eletrics opschecks CSD's and work as an airman on GRANDFORKS Airbase StrategicAirCdommand 319FMS electricshoppe!!!
I am very proud to life in this Country and the Military it is amazing the Best of the World
You Airmen are sharp. The aircraft look great! Y'all make me proud to have been part of it all. God bless you all and keep you. Take care.
B-52s used to fly right over my apartment in Fort Worth, TX when Carswell was a USAFB. This brings back memories.
Ở Việt Nam mới là kỷ niệm của nó
You're dating yourself....LOL
Miss that, don’t ya?
Used to fly over mine when I lived off base on Las Vegas Trail
Wow! Such a majestic aircraft!
Thanks to all military officers for your service. You're the best! ❤
B-52's followed by KC-135 tankers flew out of Westover SAC base round the clock. grew up with windows rattling, dishes rattling in East Springfield MA.
Lived on this base (Barksdale AFB in Bossier City, LA) for a total of nine years across two of my dad's assignments (he flew the KC-10s and 135s) in the 80s and 90s. Great place to grow up, and always fascinating to see (and hear, and feel) the planes overhead. 52s are shake-your-windows loud on takeoff.
i grew up in north Shreveport during the 60's and 70's and it was common to see them all the time and the KC tankers, i used to sit at the fence on the north gate while they were coming and going, they would be just a few feet above your head especially during the vietnam and cold war
@@silverwiskers7371 Great memories. We base kids would ride bikes close to the flight line (about 2 blocks away, which was plenty close) and watch.
There's a set of static plane displays at the West Gate (think they started it around 1995 or so). Right now you can see a B17, B29, B47, and even an SR-71 (they removed the engines :P ).
@@onlythatonetime I have see them many times when I went to the air shows over the years
My dad was stationed there in the 70’s stuff would fall off the shelf in my bedroom because of KC-135 and B-52’s filling the sky on Alerts! It was an amazing thing to experience as a kid!
i was stationed there 82-84 with 46 CG. our old metal barracks were very close to the flightline and during ORI's when dozens of buffs would take off one after the other it was very loud.
Awesome photography ..... TDA just gets better and better each time I stop by! :)
Still one heavy bad mutha indeed!.. I was assigned to the B52 right out of tech school in 1986 at Castle AFB California. When that base closed in 94 I was sent to Barksdale AFB Louisiana until I retired in 2006.. I was a Crew Chief..or Crew Dawg as we called one another..was on flight status along with the aircrew who flew them.. Tons of flying hours in this old dog..loved it!.. Constantly deployed though..every yr since we kicked off the gulf war until I retired...great memories and experience with my fellow crew dawgs... Was part of the 93rd OMS..then the 11th yellow tails SQDRN at Barksdale..then onto the 96th Red tails SQDRN and finally onto the 20th Blue tails SQDRN where I retired with them.
I literally flew and worked on all of these aircraft seen in this video.. Pretty awesome career..ill never forget these old days and times..
Special thanks to all the skilled maintainers and ground support out there.
Wow, the v-22 survived. That is so amazing 👍👍. Thank you for this spectacular video ❤
As a military dependent at Zaragosa Air Base, Spain, I watched and listened to hundreds of F-16's takeoff/landing drills. I'm here to tell ya, they are LOUD!😮
I was in Spain at Torrejon from '68 - '72. Made several trips to Zaragoza TDY during that time. Zaragoza was essentially on "caretaker" status back then, only a few personnel manning the base.
Very old Air Force joke, 'When the B-1 is retired the crew delivering the last aircraft to the boneyard will be flown home on a B-52.'
I don’t think it’s a joke so much as a prophecy lol
Horsefeathers.
lol!
Ok bandera
Some years back we were on vacation from the UK and driving up Interstate 49. Two B52s flew low over the Interstate on their way into Barksdale. To be honest I didn’t even know if they were still in service. What an awesome sight!
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It seems it is a miricle with this beast on every home landing. Bless the luck for every 52 driver in having steel nerves in gitting-it-done.
I had the pleasure and honor of flying the B-52 for nine years during the Vietnam Era. There was always a rush, but it was MY office.
지키시는길가야하시는길
I love this stuff! I was a Ground Radio tech before I became the DP NCOIC in a RI ANG Tac Control Sq. I was lucky to meet a Buff "driver" on a flight home from Dallas visiting my son and his wife. God bless you all, God bless the USA!
Bin sehr begeistert von den Berichten der air Force besonders für die B 52 . Ein sehr gutes Video toll gemacht weiterhin good Lucky airplane ❤. Ein Fan aus Krefeld Germany..
Many thanks to ALL who are serving Freedom at this time in History. We appreciate your sacrifices and pray for you and yours. the Evans Family Idaho
I spent my early USAF years in SAC and my CA. base had the tall tail "D" models, which also had the gunner's seating position in the back of the tail. It was super cool to watch the crews "Alert Scramble" with the starter carts popping off to quick start the engines( Loud & Smokey!)! I got the significance of an actual "Scramble" with the "MITO", but the exercises sure were Cool!!
There is a gunner in the back? What's he doing , shooting at Russian fighter jet that fired his missiles from 250KM away ? Save it for Hollywood.
@@keytothegate68 All early B52s had a tail gunner positioned in the back, now they just have guns/ cannons but man the gun remotely! it was thought to be necessary back in the late 40s, early 50s!!
@@keytothegate68 Fact. Two separate B-52D tail gunners shot down two separate Mig 21's during Linebacker 2 operations over Vietnam in 1972. Pull your head out of your ass, these are recorded facts you can easily look up.
@@trob0914 D,E,F model's had rear seat gunners that were located beneath the vertical stabilizer, G and H model gunners sat in the forward cockpit and fired the guns remotely. H models are the only flying Buff, and the gunners were removed, as you know, to add extensive electronic warfare countermeasures.
From BC Canada I thank you all for our brothers service along side us. With you and ours ready to make a big difference in the world just for the asking by any of our friends out there.
This is still one of the Baddest Beasts in the American Air Force Fleet, and each time they do an upgrade it just gets better! The most feared Bomber in the World!
2:10 those are Coffman starter cartridges going off to spin up the turbines. They use those regularly on alert pad aircraft that are not equipped with air start motors. This system will evolve into air start motors exclusively with the re-engingeing the B-52 with Rolls-Royce F130's.
Oh, and the refitted and overhauled B-52's will be called B-52J.
Um poderoso e icônico avião bombardeiro dos U.S.A., e muito lindo !!!
Una de las curiosidades del B52. Es que se encienden al mejor estilo del modelo T. Las últimas versiones tienen APU.
I remember the B-52's as kid in Arkansas watching them flying over during the Vietnam war in late 1960's. They were stationed at Blytheville, Arkansas then and very loud and proud.
My grandfather was a pilot in the US Army Air Corps and then switch to the US Air Force, when it was established but one of the planes he was a pilot for was the B-52.
It had to have been the most amazing yet terrifying thing to be near a B-52 strike in Vietnam. The amount of ordinance they could drop one after the other, so high up you dont know its coming, was just insane. Guys would get lifted off the ground, said the ground felt like jello.
The carpet bombing they did around Khesanh, Tet '68, saved my ass. Love them B.U.F.F.'s !
@@Northtide I was there on hill 558 with Fox 2/26 USMC. I've walked around one of the craters those bombs made.
Quite soon they can be in use again to bombard Kreml to the stone age.
They did a number on Saddam Hussein's Revolutionary Guard during the Iraqi War.
Quite a few B52s were shot down in the Vietnam War
Fantastic video! And no annoying music or verbal commentary!
Those Lancers are awesome!
Thanks, great video.
When I was a kid my step dad was in the AF and we were stationed at Barksdale AFB. We lived in Bossier city in the runway flight path. Red Alerts filled the sky with black smoke! It was awesome!
When Fairchild was a SAC base we had those flying around all the time. While it makes you feel sort of secure, it also makes you realize you're a nuclear target should the SHTF. Also had one crash just before an air show and you could see the smoke for many miles away...
They lost a tanker there also
If I remember correctly, the tanker was lost while practicing for an up coming air show. I was stationed there 2x in the 1980‘s…..
@@kenpatton8761 I don't recall the tanker dropping, but if it was the late 80s I was in Seattle at the time. I clearly recall the bomber, that would've been early 90s. I was in Coeur d'Alene and could see the smoke from my second story office window which faced west. A friend of mine was on base at the time and it barely missed the building he was in.
The video of that B-52 crash is on YT. The pilot had been reprimanded a time or two for hotdogging his plane. I’m thinking there was a general on board with him when he made a 180 degree turn and banked it almost vertically and lost lift. He just fed the port wing into the ground from tip to root.
Coi sướng con mắt,quá đã.Nước Mỹ số 1 thế giới.
I was assigned to SAC at Minot, North Dakota and U-Tapoa Thailand. 1971-1975. Great Learning experience🇺🇸👍🏻
THE VIDEO IS PERFECT AND SO IS THE MUSIC.
I was stationed in SAC at Griffiss AFB in Rome NY. Great memories of the B-52. But I will say the bomber that impressed me the most was the B-1B. Still love the "Buff" though.
Súper cool, saludos desde Colombia
Not being a AF peep, it never registered to me (after I retired) why the ANGB near me escaped all the BRAC attacks. Selfridge ANGB has like 6 (last count) of these KC135's and at least 1 or 2 are seen taking flight through out the week. Training or a sortie, but it makes sense to have the ANG train and use these aircraft which are spread out all over. The 127th refueling wing is there, along with 10 A10's. Army has a few chinooks, Customer/Boarder patrol has some air craft there (couple of H60's) and the Coast Guard has 5 HH65's. Big and busy air field to say the least. They have been trying to get the F35's there in an effort to keep the base alive. Back in the late 70's, that base was almost as active as you can get even though it was more of a NGB. Great video. Thanks for sharing.
We lived close to Barksdale when I was little, before the fall of the Soviet Union. I would watch these B52s fly over without any notion of their mission. I would imagine in that day, they were loaded with nuclear armament. On another note, I used to always call it Barksdale Airport Space - made sense to five year old me.
I’m still here and it’s the same. You get used to the roar. Almost 24/7.
Special thanks to all the skilled maintainers and ground support out there.. Special thanks to all the skilled maintainers and ground support out there..
Yes we're ready now to back to Home...Thank you very much.. God bless you All
nice plane, nice job!
Супер ребята, и непревзойдённая техника.
Thank You so much
That sound you hear is the sound of freedom!
Good work 👍
Amazing views from the pilot cannopy
Impressive! I love that BUFF
So much technology and ingenuity in the F35...A lot of it was from the original Harrier jump jets . Just a much more modernised version of the original vertical take off and landings...plus agility...
The Air Force is in my heart !!!!
Wow,its just Amazing how they build such huge,fast,badass jets,planes🙏💪✌️🇺🇸🇮🇱🇨🇱👑😘😊♥️
멋지네요 항상 조심 하세요
All good for the US of A ... Thank *YOU* *ALL* ... 💚
My father was a flight engineer on the C-141 A & B he flow under AMC , SAC ,TAC and MAC in his 32 year career in the U.S. Air Force . Also he was on four other aircrafts .
My dad served just as long but was a pilot, just retired 2 years ago and now flying for an airline. Mostly flew f-16's but was qualified in several bigger planes like the 130 also.
That's cool your father was fighter pilot , my dad like I said crewed 4 other aircrafts they were C-97 , C-47 ,C-124 and the S/A -16 albatross . Mainly flew MAC except the Air and sea rescue .
At 5:21, if you look up through the upper deck ladder opening, you can see the Electronic Warfare station. The B-52 has some of the most powerful jamming capability in the military. I can tell you officially that they are capable of jamming whatever ATC zone they are near. That is Top Secret stuff......usually blurred out. The EE-dub never talks to anyone about his work because they don't have a "Need to Know." That SH is very compartmentalized....for obvious reasons. Although these days they seem to blab their mouths about everything.
Yea how there showin this I don’t know
Bravo, US Air Force!
It's worth mentioning for any new people that the B-52 is not the same _design_ they've been using since the '50s and they just make more of them every now and then, they're literally the _same planes_ they've been using this whole time-They only made so many in the '50s and '60s and those are all the ones there are still today, very well taken care of.
To your point, my dad was a B-52 navigator in the early 70s. I have all his flight logs from then. A couple of the tail numbers in this video were planes he flew then.
To my uncle Marvin who just pass air force he fought in Vietnam a black who medic pick men up from the battle field he was so proud of country I going miss you uncle
WoW, those engines start up the same as my Saab on a cold morning!
The B1B bomber is the one that should be feared. The AF needs to do everything possible to maintain the remaining small fleet.
the russians will make it even smaller--their missiles only need to get within a mile to take these these out,flying targets...dinosours
@@dethray1000
Your Tupolev Bears are prop driven, yes?
Im in two minds about the B1B, its got alot of competition with the B1 and B2 bombers, the B52 just takes forever to get to the target, the B1B is somewhere in the middle, im not sure why the B52 is kept around…
Coz its cheap to operate.
@@deletebilderberg The Iraqis blew up themselves pretty well without our help.
They pack the biggest punch combined. With new engines, glass cockpits and other upgrades, they will be flying for decades more.
I was stationed at Dyess AFB and was a flight crew chief. It was a long haul going from the D model to the H.
Increíble aterrizaje de los aviones de combate
It has the longest lifespan of any multi engine aircraft in history
That great aircraft i love B 52
Que lastima que no están disponibles los subtitulos
What a beautiful display of the middle finger to all the greenies and snowflakes. USAF gets it done!! 🇺🇸
it makes me happy when i look at comments from U.S military related videos and people aren't talking shit on it.
million views video. very good. i like it
Good video. Faulty headline. No mention of extreme altitude in the video.
Lancers are my man crush , sexy aircraft ! love the B52s still . Lived in Virginia , norfolk of course for really reason.. you can hear the 52s like no other aircraft . Rumbles my quarters like , glad there our on my side . Guessing going to Louisiana Barksdale , amazing sight . My the dream girl at night is still SR 71 sexy beast .
Lo felicito hermanos por su gran trabajo 😅😅❤❤❤
USA🇺🇲 motto " In God we Trust " amazing
March AFB was next door to Riverside Raceway Their helos would dry the track fr Nascar. Nobody could hear the racecars until the 52's were gone.
May God bless you all and your family. Wow. Amazing coverage. Thank you for your service.
There is no god.
I saw the B-52’s once. It was also pretty loud with lots of smoke in the air.
My grandfather was a lieutenant colonel jolly Rodger pilot (skull ☠️ crosses on plane)which was essentially the same type in world war II. One of his crew members documented every mission I have all records and photos even from flac exploding right in front of them. I'll never forget one day he marked we dropped a 2000-lb bomb from 500 ft the percussion was incredible.
My father is a retired lieutenant colonel who flew a B 52 G out of Loring AFB in Maine. His sits on a pylon at the entrance to Offut AFB, he went over for medical treatment at the base, saw it and cried. It was his favorite plane to command, he did PBY air sea rescue in Sea of Japan and Spectre gunship in Vietnam. Anyone know or is familiar with 18 SOS Vengeance By Night?
Que lo.prueben en Ucrania contra los aviones Rusos a ver si es tan bueno solo farandula
@@guadalupeaguirre9750Que tiéntenlos rusos que es tan bueno como dices?
Ako sam te razumio b52 nije sudijelovao u drugom svjetskom ratu! Niti jedan pilot koi je letio u drugom svijetskom ratu nije letio na b 52! Demantiraj me! Zašto se zove b52? Provijeri pa se javi! Zadnji pilot Američkog zrakoplova u irovljen je 1951!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What were the Jolly Rogers flying in WWII? All I know of them are the F-14 Tomcats flying out of some aircraft carrier. Thanks for sharing.
To beautiful thank you.
The best sound in aviation. Idling B52 engines.
B1, is a beautiful, beautiful bird 🐦...great white shark 🦈
My utmost thanks, to the American Air Force, for their Service. We love you. 🇬🇧🇺🇸
Oh, what a great and amazing B-52 bomber is !
B-52
53???😂😂😂
Ở đâu đó thôi chứ ở Việt Nam nó cũng chỉ là hạt cát
Yes they call it the black dog
In 1973 I was stationed at the army base next to U tapao RTAFB in Thailand. Every morning we would watch the K135's take off and then the B 52's would be launched.
Cool😎👍 thanx !!!
I remember seeing IFR (Inflight Refueling Doors) sent to the sheet medal shops for repair.
Impresionante!!! Hasta donde ah llegado el hombre y su inteligencia. 😮😮
Amazing these crews today has possibly Grandfathers that flew the exact same Buffs!
My first assignment out of tech school was a B-52 base. We didn't call them BUFFS (Big Ugly Fat Fuckers) because they were certainly big but neither fat nor ugly. They are admirable aircraft, capable of carrying huge bomb loads at high altitudes just short of Mach 1. I spent a lot of time working in and around them and watched them take off and land in extreme conditions, and loved every minute of it. The B-52, like the SR-71, was decades ahead of its time, but the former is still a significant weapon.
And could easily still be a reminder to any Threat by the sound of their sonic booms. I still recall when a state rep was having lunch with their South Korean counterpart near the DMZ, when a sonic boom rattled the dinnerware. The Korean smiled, sighed and said, "Ah, So.". This signifies how much the Blackbird instilled both a sense of security to allies, and a reminder to any Threat that we are watching them. You don't get that with satellites or drones.
@@Nighthawke70 B-2's do not make sonic booms. They are a SUB-SONIC aircraft. Meaning that they never fly at the speed of sound. You must have heard another type aircraft.
@@rolandemartin854 Sorry, was referring to the SR-71's when they did missions over Korea.
Saw Macdill in there!
ESTARÍA BUENO QUE LO RELATEN EN IDIOMA ESPAÑOL .....MUY BUEN VÍDEO
Aprende Inglés,te lo recomiendo como cerrajero que soy.Abre muchas puertas !!
@@manuelcolloto JUSTO LO QUE ESTOY BUSCANDO , UN BUEN CERRAJERO Y NO ENCUENTRO.
Great video
I like this powerful bombardiers
Muy bonitos aviones tanto ingenio del ser humano para fabricar todas estas máquinas...
Tempos atrás,foi o meu sonho,ser piloto,de um desses,parabéns pra eles,(os pilotos dessas máquinas,maravilhosas)
AWESOME GUYS!!!!!!
Excellent, up-close footage.
Probably shouldn't mess with the men and women who fly these aircraft!
The world is mortal and every murderer who kills only one innocent person will be held accountable for God on the Day of Resurrection and he will be in the fire of Hell
I was a Chief on C130H proud to have served my great Nation.
If the B52 is the most feared bomber in the US Air Force, then what is the B-2 or the soon to be B21will be called?
I can hear the crew humming, “When Johnny Comes Marching Home”
"Well boys, we got three engines out, we got more holes in us than a horse trader's mule, the radio is gone and we're leaking fuel and if we was flying any lower why we'd need sleigh bells on this thing... but we got one little budge on those Roosskies. At this height they might harpoon us but they dang sure ain't gonna spot us on no radar"
Lo que es es y lo que estorba estorba simple ⚡
At 8:15 the KC-135's are lined up so perfectly on the runway with surgical precision spacing; alignment -- that they don't seem real. Like a special effect.
I can almost smell my tax dollars at work.
How much fuel does it consume per hour flat out
Did you know that their ailerons have been deactivated? Yes, they've been bolted shut. So how do they roll? They use spoilerons. The ailerons' effect is too severe for the old airframes, and could break the wings off, so they bolted the ailerons shut and use spoilerons to gradually roll the aircraft as needed. And if not already, they will be getting new engines that provide more thrust.
The B-52H does not have ailerons, and never did. All roll control has always been through spoilers.
Rolls Royce has the contract for the new engines.
@@dougball328
I’m guessing that the tankers now haul petrol. Measured in liters. And box lunches contain Gray Pupoun.
The new engines have the same thrust, but are lighter and much more efficent.