Inside Most Feared US Air Force Bomber Flying at Extreme Altitudes
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I am very proud to life in this Country and the Military it is amazing the Best of the World
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.
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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 ❤
B-52s used to fly right over my apartment in Fort Worth, TX when Carswell was a USAFB. This brings back memories.
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You're dating yourself....LOL
Miss that, don’t ya?
Used to fly over mine when I lived off base on Las Vegas Trail
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.
Wow! Such a majestic aircraft! Thanks to all military officers for your service. You're the best! ❤
Awesome photography ..... TDA just gets better and better each time I stop by! :)
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
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.
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.
Special thanks to all the skilled maintainers and ground support out there.
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.
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.
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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.
Wow, the v-22 survived. That is so amazing 👍👍. Thank you for this spectacular video ❤
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
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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.
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
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!
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..
Una de las curiosidades del B52. Es que se encienden al mejor estilo del modelo T. Las últimas versiones tienen APU.
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.
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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!
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.
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.
Those Lancers are awesome! Thanks, great video.
Fantastic video! And no annoying music or verbal commentary!
Um poderoso e icônico avião bombardeiro dos U.S.A., e muito lindo !!!
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
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.
Bravo, US Air Force!
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..
THE VIDEO IS PERFECT AND SO IS THE MUSIC.
The Air Force is in my heart !!!!
All good for the US of A ... Thank *YOU* *ALL* ... 💚
Súper cool, saludos desde Colombia
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!
Yes we're ready now to back to Home...Thank you very much.. God bless you All
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.
Супер ребята, и непревзойдённая техника.
I was assigned to SAC at Minot, North Dakota and U-Tapoa Thailand. 1971-1975. Great Learning experience🇺🇸👍🏻
nice plane, nice job!
Increíble aterrizaje de los aviones de combate
It has the longest lifespan of any multi engine aircraft in history
Impressive! I love that BUFF
That sound you hear is the sound of freedom!
Thank You so much
Wow,its just Amazing how they build such huge,fast,badass jets,planes🙏💪✌️🇺🇸🇮🇱🇨🇱👑😘😊♥️
Amazing views from the pilot cannopy
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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
What a beautiful display of the middle finger to all the greenies and snowflakes. USAF gets it done!! 🇺🇸
Special thanks to all the skilled maintainers and ground support out there.. Special thanks to all the skilled maintainers and ground support out there..
Good work 👍
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...
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 .
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.
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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.
it makes me happy when i look at comments from U.S military related videos and people aren't talking shit on it.
To beautiful thank you.
That great aircraft i love B 52
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.
How much fuel does it consume per hour flat out
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.
WoW, those engines start up the same as my Saab on a cold morning!
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.
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.
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.
Saw Macdill in there!
Does anybody know what buff stands for?
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
Lo felicito hermanos por su gran trabajo 😅😅❤❤❤
I like this powerful bombardiers
The best sound in aviation. Idling B52 engines.
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?
Impresionante!!! Hasta donde ah llegado el hombre y su inteligencia. 😮😮
Oh....at 5:04 I noticed the auto-thrust system of the B-52. It's that little lever just to the right of the throttles. Yeah, it's a friction brake. They set a friction brake to keep the throttles from vibrating back when they want to take their hands off the throttle levers. Cave man stuff. 1940's technology. And look at that flap lever. The flaps are either UP or DOWN. No intermediate detents.
They still have friction controls in the form of knobs or levers even to this day.
@@Nighthawke70 On the B-52 ? Yeah we just saw it in this video. If you mean on other aircraft I'd be curious to know which ones. Thanks for the info Nighthawke.
What autothrust? And friction brakes are common. The flaps are fowler-type, and are designed to work contiuosly through their range without detents.
@@douglaswickstrom6736 You're just another Internet person who likes to argue just to argue. It was a joke Doug. I was calling the friction brake "autothrust."
Excellent, up-close footage. Probably shouldn't mess with the men and women who fly these aircraft!
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Cool😎👍 thanx !!!
Good video. Faulty headline. No mention of extreme altitude in the video.
million views video. very good. i like it
My utmost thanks, to the American Air Force, for their Service. We love you. 🇬🇧🇺🇸
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Great video
They pack the biggest punch combined. With new engines, glass cockpits and other upgrades, they will be flying for decades more.
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.
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)
B1, is a beautiful, beautiful bird 🐦...great white shark 🦈
Lindo avião, ele é imponente como um Condor
I saw the B-52’s once. It was also pretty loud with lots of smoke in the air.
Amazing these crews today has possibly Grandfathers that flew the exact same Buffs!
The BUFF is certainly a formidable bomber, but I wouldn't call it the most feared Bomber as it has the radar cross section of a small city (thank the USA for standoff weapons). I would think the most feared actual bomber would be the B-2 as of now as it is most likely to make it to a target for an accurate strike without the enemy every knowing it was there?
@@FunnyVideoCollector Actually it is still vulnerable depending on the extended range fighters with long range air to air missiles or Naval surface to air missiles. But stand off weapons with ranges up to 1500 miles will helps in its survivability and its payload is still very impressive.
Я очень рад в том, что ты убеждён в B-2, как незаметном на радарах противника. И надеюсь, что ты такой не один. 🤝🤝🤝👍👍👍
There are no enemies only America and the Zio*nists They are the enemies. They are the cause of warsin the world
I thought I just heard a little tweeting bird! Did anybody else?
I remember seeing IFR (Inflight Refueling Doors) sent to the sheet medal shops for repair.
I can almost smell my tax dollars at work.
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It may be old but it is practically new in regards to airframe hours. It is interesting to note that the B-52s are VERY low hour aircraft. They hardly ever fly them, compared to airliners. From what I've read, with the extremely limited amount of flying they do the airframe could go DOUBLE what it has done already. It has only reached half it's life cycles. When I was a Crew Chief on B-52D models in 1983 they retired them with around 14,000 to 15 thousand hours. The airline I work for has Boeing 757s flying around well past 100,000 hours.....and still going. I read somewhere that the new B-52 engines will remain "on-wing" for the remaining life of the aircraft. (Not including accidents such as bird strikes and such) B-52H came out around 1960 to 1961. The 757 came out around 1982. The oldest 757 flying passenger service is with Delta at 30 years old. "The "oldest" B-52H is at about 21,000 hours and only experiences about 380 flight hours per year. " The 757 puts on over three-THOUSAND hours every year. Since I separated from the Air Force 38 years ago the H models have only put on an additional 14,400 flying hours. The 757s put on over 100,000 hours in fewer years.
During the Cold War era,I crewed the 135 tankers. They basically sat on alert most of the time and accrued about 100 hours a year. After the Cold War ended, they flew them all the time.
At my 1st duty station after tech school, (Ellsworth AFB), I had the pleasure of swapping out the survival kit and parachute from the tail gunner position (actually in the tail of the plane) on a D model. It was Mid July, outside temp was in the upper 90‘s, tarmac temp probably 130 or so….temp in that tail…THROUGH the ROOF! Back then I was the skinniest on my team so I didn’t have difficulty making my way through the bomb bay and the little hatch door leading back to the gunners seat. That „D“ model was the last one on the base and was retired soon afterwards. The only planes that sat on the ground were the ones on ALERT. All the others B52‘s and KC/EC 135‘s flew daily missions. (If they weren’t being worked on that is). In the mid-70‘s through early 80‘s Ellsworth AFB, SD had a double `Bomb Wing“, a KC-135 refueling wing, EC-135 flying command post wing, an ICBM wing along with with T38 trainers and rescue helicopters. I worked on all the aircraft, maintaining the survival equipment (survival seats, life rafts and parachutes).I also maintained/built the aircrews helmets and oxygen masks.
@@kenpatton8761proud of you and all the other service members who have contributed to our country’s liberty! Bless you!
It's better today than its 1st day after the AF co-signed-it off on certification.
@@twoZJs Not really. I served on B-52s and now I've seen the modern stuff. The B-52 should have been retired FIFTY years ago.
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 .
Muito bom!