ABORTED: THIS ENDED WELL KC-135 STRATOTANKER ENGINE FAILURE ON TAKE OFF • RAF MILDENHALL
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ก.ค. 2023
- Two KC-135 Stratotankers of the 100th Air Refueling Wing with callings 'LAGER' at RAF Mildenhall are cleared for take off as a two ship flight. However, as LAGER52 rolls out for takeoff, one of the engines fails and aborted the takeoff. It was lucky the engine failed before the aircraft was airborne. LAGER53, was able to take off, but ended as single flight.
The KC-135 Stratotanker provides the core aerial refueling capability for the United States Air Force and has excelled in this role for more than 60 years. This unique asset enhances the Air Force's capability to accomplish its primary mission of global reach. It also provides aerial refueling support to Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps and allied nation aircraft. The KC-135 is also capable of transporting litter and ambulatory patients using patient support pallets during aeromedical evacuations.
Four turbofans, mounted under 35-degree swept wings, power the KC-135 to takeoffs at gross weights of up to 322,500 pounds. A cargo deck above the refueling system can hold a mixed load of passengers and cargo. Depending on fuel storage configuration, the KC-135 can carry up to 83,000 pounds of cargo.
Primary Function: Aerial refueling and airlift
Prime Contractor: The Boeing Company
Power Plant: CFM International CFM-56 turbofan engines
Thrust: 21,634 pounds each engine
Wingspan: 130 feet, 10 inches (39.88 meters)
Length: 136 feet, 3 inches (41.53 meters)
Height: 41 feet, 8 inches (12.7 meters)
Speed: 530 miles per hour at 30,000 feet (9,144 meters)
Ceiling: 50,000 feet (15,240 meters)
Range: 1,500 miles (2,419 kilometers) with 150,000 pounds (68,039 kilograms) of transfer fuel; ferry mission, up to 11,015 miles (17,766 kilometers)
Maximum Takeoff Weight: 322,500 pounds (146,285 kilograms)
Maximum Transfer Fuel Load: 200,000 pounds (90,719 kilograms)
Maximum Cargo Capability: 83,000 pounds (37,648 kilograms), 37 passengers
Pallet Positions: 6
Crew: Three: pilot, co-pilot and boom operator. Some KC-135 missions require the addition of a navigator. The Air Force has a limited number of navigator suites that can be installed for unique missions.
Aeromedical Evacuation Crew: A basic crew of five (two flight nurses and three medical technicians) is added for aeromedical evacuation missions. Medical crew may be altered as required by the needs of patients.
Unit Cost: $39.6 million (fiscal 98 constant dollars)
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Great video, stayed at the Willows campsite and watched these land, amazing.
Ooohh yeah
Cracking shot that ted. Cracking shot!
Thank you
That’s a heavy girl to stop🫡 hats off to crew
Oii oiii Davey 🤙🏼 well said man
Not that heavy. KC-10 > KC-135. 10 > 46.
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Omg i love it😍😍😍
so glad the plane did not take off hope the issue is sorted now. Regards to Ted and Nikos
Oiii oiii Debbie. I know the pilot had an issue with one of the engines and couldn’t be resolved on the day. Completely scrubbed the flight. Drew was doing his best.
Good video 👍🏻
Wow!! Where bouts are you set up? to getting those amazing shots keep up the great content 🤙🏻🤙🏻🤙🏻 ohhhhhh yeeeaaaahhh!!!
Thank you very much ooohhh yeah
Cool, Bro! "Canceled takeoff!" 64 years old, NEVER heard it stated that way before!
I will use from now on!
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Oii oiii thank you very much and glad you enjoy our videos
Rejected takeoff.
strange that they let the 2nd aircraft take off with out checking the runway for FOD if it was engine failure
Good call.👍
If I'd have been the
tractor driver I would have started to move away from the runway very quickly.
Being as all the engines were still running I doubt it was an actual engine failure but likely a sensor/indicator failure.
It wasn’t an engine failure.
Brilliant footage as always and that pic of the 135 taking off over its sick brother was sweet…. OH YEAH ! 🧸
Perhaps Logger 52 aborted due to a lack of…BEAR.
Good action from the crew of LAGER-52, in deciding to abort the takeoff, after loosing ine engine.
Yes absolutely. I think it was Engine 3. When it gets closer, the swirl on the engine 3 seems more profound as you can see it unlike the others. But, great decision from the pilot
Thank God it ended well!!!!!!
I read the title as engine fire. I was looking for any signs of a fire and was expecting firetrucks to show up to check it out LOL
Hi Ted,
Love your videos, I am planning a visit next week its my first time for Mildenhall, please could you give some advice on location for photography at the base like where you was in this video.
Many thanks
David
Hi. Hope you have a great time. The nook campsite is great and it’s only £2 for the parking all day (please check closure times) and it’s a perfect positioning to enjoy the whole day.
David it’s also known as John’s field and definitely the best location. You can take your car right up to the fence line.
Funfact: The 'D' marking on the tails of the 100th ARW aircraft at Mildenhall is the only WWII marking still in use. Its kept as a mark of respect to the 100th Bomb Group that flew from Mildenhall in WWII.
The 100th BG never flew from Mildenhall, they flew from Thorpe Abbots for the entirety of the war. These aircraft carry the ‘D’ because they’re the modern incarnation of the 100th BG, but are now the 100th ARF Wing.
@@Jimmythefish577 I stand corrected and always happy to be so when I am wrong.
But as you are a stickler for accuracy my use of 'ARW' is correct. There is no 'ARF Wing'. ARW standing for 'Air Refuelling Wing'.
Have a safe weekend.
@@1chishI wasn’t trying to be a stickler, I was just passing on information about where the 100th BG was actually based during WW2. I guess in future I’ll just not say anything and leave people to labour under whatever misapprehension they like. It’s not like being historically accurate really matters at the end of the day. 🤷🏽♂️
@@Jimmythefish577 I said I stood corrected. I owned up. What more do you want? Sack cloth and ashes?
And yes history is important and why I mentioned where the 'D' came from and why in the first place.
Names (or rather acronyms) are also important hence my correction to you. Which I see you chose to deflect with sarcasm rather than accept your mistake with the same good grace I did.
Now,now children ! ✌️✌️🇬🇧🇬🇧
Just as well before V1!!!
I last worked on -135s in '91 when it was in the midst of converting to R models. What are the pods on the wingtips?
The pods are where the refuelling drogues are for AAR. 🤙🏼
Somebody’s lucky day 😊
Of course not mine ,
Where was ground crew Drew to give the pilot some grief for breaking his plane😂Glad all ended ok 👍
Oiii oiii 🤙🏼 all ended well and Drew went over to have a look at Engine 3
Are you doing a live stream at RAF coningsby tomorrow for families day or not
Not planned, but there will be uploaded content later.
Hi Adam sorry for reply. Hope you got to see the highlights
What are the pods at the tips of the wing of the first tanker?
The pods are refuelling pods which release refuelling drogues
Why is there a Royal crest on the vertical stabiliser of a USAF aircraft?
I suppose it has something to do with these USAFE airplanes being based on an Royal Air Force Base, leased to US. Or maybe it's a conspiracy. One never knows.
Because it once was a RAF base, that is the original station crest. In fact, as Lakenheath was a satellite to Mildenhall, Lakenheath technically has the same crest also.
That definitely wasn’t an engine failure. The same tail was flying today. It may have been a low-side failure, but not engine failure. I know, “the pilot said…”.
B.d.
Ever heard of "compresere stall"?
@@Southwest_923WR Yeah, I've had 2 myself and both were totally different. That's still not an engine failure unless it's a flame out, which this one wasn't. It was still idling when it taxied by.
Pilots are just going to give a short version of the problem to the tower and Supervisor of Flying. Maintenance will have plenty of time during debrief for the details.
@@ItsEricAZ Totally agree. When declaring an IFE, we kept it short. We said our "callsign, IFE, roll the trucks please." The rest was dealt with after shutdown.
@@johnhickman106 I can tell you from the maintenance side of things (F-16 background), specifics really didn't matter to us. We just wanted to know which shop was there to talk to the pilot. They'll have the Q&A and fix it.
The first was Oh! The second was Yeah!
That’s one way of putting it
Perhaps she was a bit low on fuel. If only there was a tanker round here somewhere. Hmm...🤔
The second aircraft shouldn't have been given clearance to take off as the first aircraft hadn't vacated the runway, it's still 50% over the stopbar/ holding point so technically it's still on the runway, just saying 😂
Runway wasn't visually swept for debris, fod, either.
Interesting that the first KC 135 still had its tail on the 'runway' side of the CAT 1 holding position - the second aircraft did NOT have a 'clear' runway. would not have been allowed at a civilian aerodrome
All engines were still running no sign of a failure unless one rolled back or possibly another reason for abort.
I’m just going with what the pilot said
Nah you re just taking the term engine failure too literally. There s a plethora of relatively minor issues that lead to aborting (edit: or you cling too much to what you expect an engine failure to look like aka no, most engine failures aren t of the catastrophic kind but yet, good enough reason to abort/check, funny enough mil reg are actually stricter than the civ ones when it comes to abort procedures in "normal" environments). The pilot here already made the call to abort very early, I d say approx 2-3s after the clear. Looks very much like when he was about to go for take off thrust, he instantly aborted. An insta abort translates into appearing as if he had pursued take off for 5-10s depending on load for any outside observer.
Not really take off but hey Ho it is wat it is still a safe run he didn’t have to really panic to much
Jesus. First plane isn’t clear of the runway.
It did clear the runway, decided to hold short at the taxi holding point TED
The pilot was blessed, indeed! Not meant for that plane to go up at that time, regardless of what happened to the engine.
Couldn’t believe it Dee, we were thinking that the runway would be coming to an end but pilot called out a cancelled takeoff. She did well
@@TedConingsby I didn't know that little piece of tid-bit you just mentioned. That pilot was given a second chance. I'll bet his butt will be in church this Sunday!! 😇
oy oy nico and ted strike again
Staged just for you Ted 😀😀😀
no drama big skills and nicely aborted take off the pilot would probably tell you no big deal!!!
Yes. What they train for 👍
Absolutely, she was proper calm and Luke Gazza said they train for this. Excellent example of skills and calm actions
Good morning all from a cloudy and windy Bletchley
Oiii oiiii
Something didn't look right or feel right so definitely best to abort before issue became a Real!!! Problem.
Thank Ted oii oii
Oiii oiii Daniel. Yes, the pilots are trained for thus scenario and it’s nice to see it calmly and safely done, even though it’s not the ideal scenario. Although you can’t hear the comms as we were live, the pilot is totally calm about it all.
@TedConingsby That's the response airforce need from their pilots. To work problem and act swiftly to avoid catastrophic end. Cool in times of adversity. Thanks for your response Ted and Nikos