Bug Out: KC-135 Stratotankers Scramble & Takeoff
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- Bugging Out -- KC-135 Stratotankers Scramble at McConnell AFB. More aviation videos at / okrajoe
Bugging Out. Video by Staff Sgt. Alexander Farver | 22nd Air Refueling Wing Public Affairs | Date: 10.25.2012. McConnell aircrews practice short notice takeoff procedures in KC-135 Stratotankers. Also available in high definition.
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Reminds me of the 108th TAC back when the F-4 was clearing the ice off the runway by pairs. Saw it first hand allsome sight. Cool video
SF looked lost out there... glad they have these practices. show this to the CC
Watched Alert Force exercises (KC-135A/B52G) at Wurtsmith 79-82, which puts these guys to shame. SAC had it down to a science. Cart starts work.
For Alert Force, For Alert Force Klaxon, Klaxon... (I can't even type the third one after all these years)
Security Forces, what the hell are you doing?
@Keep Moving Forward then again its McConnell so they need the morale high fives
Reminds me when on alert duty on a SAC base, I was a KC-135R crew chief, when the Klaxon goes off, you scramble out of the alert building to your jet, get on the headset, starting the acft air at the bottom of the crew ladder, there is a switch. Waiting for A/C say clear in front of #3 engine to start, then #4, #2, and #1. pulling chocks then climbing on board. waiting for the go. Usually we did not get it. There was one time, we did get the go, taxing to the hammer head. I thought, is this real. Feeling the engine reving up for power, then it shut down and just taxing to the end of the runway. Tell you it does get your heart pumping. After you catch your breathe, you start breathing again normal. You are briefed, "if we are leaving the hardstand and taxing to the hammerhead, you feel the power reving up, its real". Being in the Air Force, on alert was the most exciting experience and best part being acft crew chief.
The KC-135: the coolest tanker ever!
Somebody please tell me the FOD was bugging them too
Yeah, I saw it and started yelling at my computer screen.
A whole lot of time wasted by SF on those stupid ass ropes and cones. WTF was with that? They can just paint a stupid red line on the ground for their ECP's.
It was pretty sad. Lets hope that was the first run of the decade. I miss it
Southwest airlines boards and launches jets faster than this. In the late 60s I used to watch the alert B-52s followed immediately by the KC-135s flush out of Wurtsmith AFB in Michigan. They'd have 6 birds in the air before these guys got to the runway. Sad.
After spending 13 years at Grissom AFB as a tanker crew chief, this is a poor showing. We could get 13 aircraft airborne in 3 minutes from the time the horn went off. I suspect this was part of an ORI, where the process works a little different than a regular Alert Scramble. Also you never put ropes and stanchions in front of alert parking areas. The aircraft need a direct unobstructed route to the runway.
I never knew tankers scrambled. Cool!
You got to get the fuel in the air too for the B-52s before the bases get bombed...
everything military has a scramble button cooks to pilots
Gotta coil up the extension cord first. Wouldn't want to go into WW3 with an untidy airstrip.
The inter phone is coiled up so it is easier to get everything up into the aircraft. If it is coiled properly, it is easier to uncoil it for use on landing.
Too slow. kc-135A could fire there carts in the #4 engine in less than 2 mins. these guys where dragging there feet. 16 years in SAC as a tanker crew chief. we would be fired if we where this bad. 4 years 509 OMS Pease advantage NH. 12 years E-4B 55 OMS/1ACCS Offutt fab proud to be a CREW CHIEF
Pitot Cover rope should be in the sliding windows too. Either that or the Co-Pilot would drop his side and and the Pilot would drag in both. That would save the Crew Chief the wasted effort. Funny, McConnell joined up with Pease ANGB for a TIF unit. It was a bumpy road in the beginning.
I've seen other videos of combat jets scrambling. Either exercise or real alert. Often the (crews) seem Way too slow, getting their aircraft started, taxi & takeoff. I often wonder what would happen if a real (combat threat) was approaching our coast line or major city. One vid i watched (scrambling) an F16 or F15 took 5 - 6 min B4 (they) launched. In that amount of time an (enemy) or (aggressor), could Easily do some damage. A (system) should be set up to where ASA the scramble alert in given, the aircrafts APU should automatically start & begin the process of getting the engines & cockpit ready. Save time & launch faster. Lives & our nations security depend on it.
What is a “cart”? Some type of military-only starting device? As in a “cartridge”?
@@overbank56 lol seriously dood?
@@jonnie2bad yeah! Seriously! I had no idea
NKAWTG!
Well folks thats the airfarce some of you get it most wont
do they enter the cockpit through a ladder?
Yep. Built in the days of the cold war, can't waste time on air stairs....
Never heard of tankers scrambling. I thought only combat aircraft did that
The idea, during the "bad old days" of Pad Alert, was both the Alert Bombers and Alert Tankers scrambled, within a short period of time, like up to 15 minutes, because that's how long they would have until the Soviet nukes arrived at the base. The Alert Tankers would be scrambled, because they would be providing fuel for the bombers, to help make sure they could reach their targets in the Soviet Union, for our nuclear retaliation.
While our bombers and tankers don't sit 24/7 Pad Alert anymore, they still train for it, a few times a year, just incase something "happened" and they needed to go back onto Alert, they wouldn't be starting from scratch/the beginning.
that cord lol
Why would a tanker need to scramble? I am guessing because fighters had to scramble?
+Muddy Shoe Tankers support strtegic bombers as well as fighters. Supporting a strategic platform (B-xx, opposed to tactical planes like F-xx or A-xx) the tankers are part of SIOP an have, in case of an alarm, scramble just like the bombers.
or leaving a base under attack
Tankers guys have a cool patch and on it is no one kick ass without gas funny but is to the point Jets need fuel and a lot of it
fastone942
The same reason everything else needs to be scrambled? Because in wartime, you need your assets quickly?
Plus, what if the base was about to get blown up?
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