When I was a kid in West Germany in the late 1980ies, i was playing in our garden, and I looked up and there was this giant B-52 filling the whole sky, followed by a thunderous roar that seemed to last forever. Pretty awesome and also scary. There was a distinctive mountain nearby which they used as a landmark. Also sonic booms every day, and jet fighters training dogfights, circling... Once a month the town's "doomsday" sirens were tested. I'm really glad the cold war is over.
I'll never forget seeing a B52 take off and do a (very) "Low and slow" for the crowd 30 yrs back at an airshow in Peru Indiana which at that time had a SAC refueling wing. My mouth dropped open and stayed that way as it flew by! Big, beautiful and LOUD! Made a fan out of me for life!
The B-52 has such strange/unique aerodynamic characteristics. It literally creates positive lift at negative angle of attack (based on the angle of the fuselage), as is best evidenced by this video at around 0:26. Some large Russian transport aircraft have similar behavior, where the pitch angle is nearly zero at takeoff, giving a very eerie appearance.
Air Force B52's used to buzz my Grandparents farm on a regular basis when I was a child in the 80's. The sound of those engines scared the living crap out of me.
Fantastisch! Leider nur auf dem Vorfeld stehend in Nellis Air Force Base gesehen... Das hätten wir vor 2 Jahren wissen sollen das sie in Berlin fliegt....
+Noah whitehouse (BNSF9643) yeah they have been using..was it B1 bombers..? but now those bombers are on a maintenance and training cycle so they are coming back tot he states. and the b52 squadrons are going there to relieve them.
I flew the B-52H 35 years ago. Regarding previous comments: The aircraft flies nose low as the design has 22 degrees (my recollection) of wing camber built in, in contrast to most other aircraft. As the flaps are extended in this video (two positions, up or down) the aircraft must be flying at less than 180 KIAS (the flap speed limit). The engines are Pratt TF-33 turbofans (the same as the C-141 had four of - minus thrust reversers) and put out 17,500 pounds of thrust each. Discussion every few years exists regarding re-engining to improve reliability, fuel consumption and unrefueled endurance but doesn't win in the choices. The pilots eject upwards, the navigators (stationed below them) downward. The gunner (no longer on the crew) and electronic warfare officer seats face aft behind the pilots and eject upwards as well. Any additional crewmembers/instructors would bail out "any opening available" (ie vacated navigator hatch).
This is a B 52H and does not have water injection. A-G models B52 had water injection only. And all of those have been gone for over 20 years. B 52H has TF-33 engines while all other B 52 had J-57 with water.
Awesome! Like watching an old school bus drive by, pouring smoke. Only this thing carries a lotta whoopass. America's air power baby! Nothing says "you're gonna have a bad day" like a b52 headed your direction.
true,,any many Iraqi soldiers can attest to that. during the first Gulf War, we would come across the desert at low level to avoid anti-aircraft fire and hugged the ground until our IP then we would climb to 1500 feet , drop our bombs on target and drop back to the ground and beat feet out of the AO.
I worked on the B-52 1983-1986 the bombers got a solid state radar to take it to the year 2040 the B52's weigh 1100 less with the new radar. I was an inspector and saved this project from many problems that I found and stopped the assembly line many times every time I found some thing wrong .on one time I saved the project .by catching problems and broken continuity the grand mother boards I inspected were like working on a 40 story building 40 layers of copper tracts .I do believe I save this project many times with my call out.
Man! Out in White Sands these babies would buzz you low and super fast. You'd see em go by, then hear them big ol' smokey engines after they'd pass! Friggin eerie. Imagine these guys dumping Daisy Cutters in the highlands of Vietnam? Talk about clear cutting forests. Tunguska, Russia ain't nothing compared to what these birds can do!
Tail feathers, rear empenage was upgraded, powerplants upgraded, electronics...everything, many times have been upgraded - but yes; the design and soul of this big ugly Armageddon champion has proven itself perfect many times - may he never be laid to rest.
And to think that Schoenefeld Airport was once on a potential target list for the B-52. I wonder if Schoenefeld Sally was in the Tower when the BUFF made its fly-by?
I was just gonna ask about that. I know it's just doing a flyby but it looks like it's trying to land but generating too much lift. haha Why nose down?
Nice vid and wish more people who uploaded vids were as smart as you. you killed the music just at the right time so we could hear the engines. well done.
nose down is signature buff flight baby our buffs B52G took off nose down the rear wheels would actually leave the ground first and whenever you saw them climbing it was nose down when a buff took off or was landing everyone stopped what they were doing to watch BULLDAWG WITH A FIDDY CAL
The targeting radar is in the nose. I know most are, when I asked the pilot for more info, he clamed up. but if you look at it, the leading edge of the wing, starts at the top of the fuselage, and slants almost to the bottom. it may be ugly, but I love it. I did hate when the rear gunner would leave his gun on. every time I walked around the plane, it would fallow me. That was creepy.
Gotta love that engine roar. That is the backbone of the USAF and in my opinion, the greatest strategic bomber in history. I love this plane! You can't even describe the feeling of being next to one of these things as it takes off and you feel the vibrations in your chest!
The "smoke" is actually caused by the colder exit thrust, or exhaust, coming out of the engines. This is because they are water injected J57s, like most B52 bombers have. So what you are seeing is actually the thrust coming out of the engine, then fading away as it cools.
Beast is ALWAYS trimmed 2 degrees nose down for flight. Heavyweight or light before landing she is always 2 degrees nose down. Just the way she flies; ask an AC about it. I was just a gunner and they never told us why. I guess it was because of fuel load and CG considerations, but we always flew that way. Based out of K I Sawyer AFB in Michigan. Flew on B-52H models.
i remember stopping my car 1 evening coming home from work to watch 6 of these take off from uk base mildenhall when they 1st went into Afghanistan ..what a sight , the whole road was complete stand still ... unbelievable to see something that huge take off..
It produces a tremendous amount of lift. To maintain a particular altitude, you have to nose down so as to prevent the aircraft climbing. When loaded with 40 tons of bombs, you don't have this problem for the obvious reason.
From static parked, to flight with full load, wingtips move a verticle 19 FEET!!! I am USAF retired... Several tours in SAC. Was a 'No Lone Zone' warrior.
"thrust" is a mechanical force, it is not something you can see. This is black and can therefore only be carbon particles (same as you get from diesel engine exhaust). The water content of exhaust gases can only be visible at very high altitude where it condenses (contrails).
This is a B-52H (BUFF), the last model of the series and the only model to get fans (A-G model BUFFs had '50s era turbo jets). The fans on the H's are early 1960's vintage, back when jet engines were a lot smokier and not nearly as "thrusty" as more modern fans. hence the need for eight of them on the BUFF. There have been several proposals to re-engine the eight fans on the H's with four modern fans, but so far nothing has come of it.
She's nose down because her wings are swept back so far that her center of lift is slightly aft of her center of gravity, making her nose down in level flight. The affect is accentuated when the pilot increases flaps and throttles in this flyby. Most airplanes have center of lift slightly forward of center of gravity which makes them fly slightly nose up.
@GeoSciful The AOA (wing angle of attack) is positive, even though the aircraft is climbing nose low. The wing is mounted with a significant pitch vs the fuselage. It works out to make sense at altitude, but it looks weird low and slow.
When I was a kid in West Germany in the late 1980ies, i was playing in our garden, and I looked up and there was this giant B-52 filling the whole sky, followed by a thunderous roar that seemed to last forever. Pretty awesome and also scary. There was a distinctive mountain nearby which they used as a landmark. Also sonic booms every day, and jet fighters training dogfights, circling... Once a month the town's "doomsday" sirens were tested. I'm really glad the cold war is over.
I remember going down the Rhein and seeing a fighter jet go roaring over the hills along the river near Weisbaden, it was a shocker for sure.
Welcome to the Cold War round 2.
I'll never forget seeing a B52 take off and do a (very) "Low and slow" for the crowd 30 yrs back at an airshow in Peru Indiana which at that time had a SAC refueling wing. My mouth dropped open and stayed that way as it flew by! Big, beautiful and LOUD! Made a fan out of me for life!
The B-52 has such strange/unique aerodynamic characteristics. It literally creates positive lift at negative angle of attack (based on the angle of the fuselage), as is best evidenced by this video at around 0:26. Some large Russian transport aircraft have similar behavior, where the pitch angle is nearly zero at takeoff, giving a very eerie appearance.
Looks like they are looking straight down😂
The beautiful big bird still looks great.
Hard to believe this plane is has been in active service since 1955. Right around the time that Marty McFly arrived back in time!
This design is timeless.. What a masterpiece.
Nothing in the sky looks terrifying like B52 . I love it
@@GilZu what about tupluv bear that dropped tsar bomba
@@PietriGuitars to that I cannot disagree but can it go nuclear
I miss that sound, nothing sounds like a buff. also notice it flys nose down, and when they land, the front trucks touch down first. love em.
Air Force B52's used to buzz my Grandparents farm on a regular basis when I was a child in the 80's. The sound of those engines scared the living crap out of me.
I had the chance to see a B-52 doing such an approach during the 80's at CHIEVRES AB in Belgium... A great moment !
Grand old lady of the skies! Love seeing her fly.
This will be the first time I actually watched controll surfaces oscillating on a bird in flight.Really cool.
Beuatiful footage !!
Beautiful...great video!
Look at that nose down attitude in level flight, that's something!
That sounds surreal, coming from someone who grew up in the digital age. Must have been a really tense environment.
I love how that wing and the flaps create SO MUCH LIFT that it can fly level with the nose down :D
I was just thinking it
Wow. Was this footage shot during an airshow? In any case, great catch, SoltauCruiser!
@Mylitla Very thanks! Never knew about that wing positioning with respect to the airframe.
Einfach der Hammer...
b-52H = awesome
Fantastisch! Leider nur auf dem Vorfeld stehend in Nellis Air Force Base gesehen... Das hätten wir vor 2 Jahren wissen sollen das sie in Berlin fliegt....
die B-52 war zu Gast auf der ILA 2010 ;)
Video kommt noch :-/
glad it wasn't Bud Holland doing his rivet popping steep climbs...
Every hippie in the world probably lost 2 handfuls of hair after watching that...so much freakin smoke...I LOVE IT!!! LOL
Don't be fooled! this grandpa Bomber still has a few tricks up his sleeves....
thanks
Awesome
thanks :)
That angle of attack though xd
1/3 off the runway, the nose pitch seemed forced low..headwind?
not the cleanest and most fuel efficient engines on earth, but that's a really cool bird!
King Horse. Brute Force.
That thing is so fuckin' metal!
there goes our invirement. they should develop more sophisticated engines on these planes
@z98908 Well the lot of the B-52s are over 40 years old!
Its one of those bombers that look only great when they are smashed into a airfield burning down.
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Ich kann leider nicht bei jeder Ankunft dabei sein. Heute kam der Emirates A380 und morgen kommt der von Lufthansa.
Just got news from the USAF saying that these old ass-kickers are going to Iraq to fight ISIS.
+Noah whitehouse (BNSF9643) yeah they have been using..was it B1 bombers..? but now those bombers are on a maintenance and training cycle so they are coming back tot he states. and the b52 squadrons are going there to relieve them.
An old polluting s.o.b. Beautiful and badass!
B52 very Good
I went deaf :PPPP
Watching multiple videos, why do they all run so dirty?
is there any way to optimise those engines?!?
That is a discussion the Air Force has been having for a long, long time.
Fucking A right dude!
Stativ? Für dieses Video habe ich kein Stativ benutzt.
such a weird flying angle
They smoke so bad because the turbofans are inefficient at low altitude
@haeddus "murder"...how wonderfully simple minded
I flew the B-52H 35 years ago. Regarding previous comments: The aircraft flies nose low as the design has 22 degrees (my recollection) of wing camber built in, in contrast to most other aircraft. As the flaps are extended in this video (two positions, up or down) the aircraft must be flying at less than 180 KIAS (the flap speed limit). The engines are Pratt TF-33 turbofans (the same as the C-141 had four of - minus thrust reversers) and put out 17,500 pounds of thrust each. Discussion every few years exists regarding re-engining to improve reliability, fuel consumption and unrefueled endurance but doesn't win in the choices. The pilots eject upwards, the navigators (stationed below them) downward. The gunner (no longer on the crew) and electronic warfare officer seats face aft behind the pilots and eject upwards as well. Any additional crewmembers/instructors would bail out "any opening available" (ie vacated navigator hatch).
langefk1 Finally, someone who knows what they're talking about.
Lol everyone ejects and you're left crawling around in the plane trying to get to an opening as it careens downward
@@GZA036 “Guess I’m the captain, now!”
thanks
The B52 is always scary ! It's the bearer of death for excellence .
Now that's what ~3 liters kerosine per second look like! :D
This is a B 52H and does not have water injection. A-G models B52 had water injection only. And all of those have been gone for over 20 years. B 52H has TF-33 engines while all other B 52 had J-57 with water.
I love the sounds love the size and the shutters they send through you when the fly over.
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Awesome! Like watching an old school bus drive by, pouring smoke. Only this thing carries a lotta whoopass. America's air power baby! Nothing says "you're gonna have a bad day" like a b52 headed your direction.
true,,any many Iraqi soldiers can attest to that. during the first Gulf War, we would come across the desert at low level to avoid anti-aircraft fire and hugged the ground until our IP then we would climb to 1500 feet , drop our bombs on target and drop back to the ground and beat feet out of the AO.
I worked on the B-52 1983-1986 the bombers got a solid state radar to take it to the year 2040 the B52's weigh 1100 less with the new radar. I was an inspector and saved this project from many problems that I found and stopped the assembly line many times every time I found some thing wrong .on one time I saved the project .by catching problems and broken continuity the grand mother boards I inspected were like working on a 40 story building 40 layers of copper tracts .I do believe I save this project many times with my call out.
thank you Joseph, you have done more for this country then you'll ever come to know. :)
Giving that unmistakable bbq flavour to any spotters packed lunch
a 60 years old plane that looks so modern, a amazing aircraft
The angle of attack was normal, one of the quirks that made the "Buff" so unique and cool. Had to do with the wing sweep at low speeds I believe.
Man! Out in White Sands these babies would buzz you low and super fast. You'd see em go by, then hear them big ol' smokey engines after they'd pass! Friggin eerie. Imagine these guys dumping Daisy Cutters in the highlands of Vietnam? Talk about clear cutting forests. Tunguska, Russia ain't nothing compared to what these birds can do!
Kind nice considering the age of the B52, proving you can't improve on perfection.
Tail feathers, rear empenage was upgraded, powerplants upgraded, electronics...everything, many times have been upgraded - but yes; the design and soul of this big ugly Armageddon champion has proven itself perfect many times - may he never be laid to rest.
And to think that Schoenefeld Airport was once on a potential target list for the B-52. I wonder if Schoenefeld Sally was in the Tower when the BUFF made its fly-by?
Tolles Video,wow was für ein Flugzeug!Gruss Inselvideo!
I was just gonna ask about that. I know it's just doing a flyby but it looks like it's trying to land but generating too much lift. haha Why nose down?
Cool
Nice vid and wish more people who uploaded vids were as smart as you. you killed the music just at the right time so we could hear the engines. well done.
nose down is signature buff flight baby our buffs B52G took off nose down the rear wheels would actually leave the ground first and whenever you saw them climbing it was nose down when a buff took off or was landing everyone stopped what they were doing to watch BULLDAWG WITH A FIDDY CAL
The targeting radar is in the nose. I know most are, when I asked the pilot for more info, he clamed up. but if you look at it, the leading edge of the wing, starts at the top of the fuselage, and slants almost to the bottom. it may be ugly, but I love it. I did hate when the rear gunner would leave his gun on. every time I walked around the plane, it would fallow me. That was creepy.
Gotta love that engine roar. That is the backbone of the USAF and in my opinion, the greatest strategic bomber in history. I love this plane! You can't even describe the feeling of being next to one of these things as it takes off and you feel the vibrations in your chest!
I agree. A plane without engine sounds is like a symphony without music instrument.
The "smoke" is actually caused by the colder exit thrust, or exhaust, coming out of the engines. This is because they are water injected J57s, like most B52 bombers have. So what you are seeing is actually the thrust coming out of the engine, then fading away as it cools.
Saw a couple of these "Low flying" in Glencoe, Scotland (Lived there for three years). BRILLIANT.
Hay que hacer un reglaje a el sistema de inyección, obviamente.
God I do so love that sound..nothing like a BUFF's engines...
nice vid and btw for those who don't know where Schonefeld airport is, its in Germany on the outside of Berlin
2040: 80+ years and it's still awesome.
that is how an aircraft video should be !! well done mate
It’s a good thing we’ve put behind us the whole “bombing Berlin” thing.
Beast is ALWAYS trimmed 2 degrees nose down for flight. Heavyweight or light before landing she is always 2 degrees nose down. Just the way she flies; ask an AC about it. I was just a gunner and they never told us why. I guess it was because of fuel load and CG considerations, but we always flew that way.
Based out of K I Sawyer AFB in Michigan. Flew on B-52H models.
Cant get enough! Nothing sounds better than 8 screamin, smokey, TF33's!
My Father Serve U.S.AIR FORCE Vietnam 🇻🇳 81th Fligher Wing Brentwaters England 🇬🇧Work on B-52 Bomber S.A.C.
There’s just something about the that screaming sound and the nose-down attitude of a B-52!! Never gets old!!👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
@eatmenarf1 No, it stands for Big, but it's still beautiful. Look at those wings.
Wow,unglaubliche Maschine!Gruss inselvideo!
"Low Approach" altitude for a BUFF is like TPA for a Cessna-152 in the circuit...
Now THAT'S a muddafkn airplane!!!
i remember stopping my car 1 evening coming home from work to watch 6 of these take off from uk base mildenhall when they 1st went into Afghanistan ..what a sight , the whole road was complete stand still ... unbelievable to see something that huge take off..
It produces a tremendous amount of lift. To maintain a particular altitude, you have to nose down so as to prevent the aircraft climbing. When loaded with 40 tons of bombs, you don't have this problem for the obvious reason.
Nose down, ass up!
Great video, and a great display of the beautiful Buff at low speed.
I clocked that lol
Impressive Plane - impressive Sound - impressive Video...
From static parked, to flight with full load, wingtips move a verticle 19 FEET!!!
I am USAF retired... Several tours in SAC. Was a 'No Lone Zone' warrior.
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Look at that freaking high lift/drag on that wings and add it with the flaps. The plane is leaning forward and still maintain its altitude lmfao
exceptional camera focus!
"thrust" is a mechanical force, it is not something you can see. This is black and can therefore only be carbon particles (same as you get from diesel engine exhaust).
The water content of exhaust gases can only be visible at very high altitude where it condenses (contrails).
Just imagine a dozen or two of these heading toward your town. Terrifying
This is a B-52H (BUFF), the last model of the series and the only model to get fans (A-G model BUFFs had '50s era turbo jets). The fans on the H's are early 1960's vintage, back when jet engines were a lot smokier and not nearly as "thrusty" as more modern fans. hence the need for eight of them on the BUFF. There have been several proposals to re-engine the eight fans on the H's with four modern fans, but so far nothing has come of it.
Wow! Das Video kannte ich noch garnicht von Dir. Was hat denn die B-52 in SXF gemacht? Na ja klar, nen low app ;-), aber WARUM?
She's nose down because her wings are swept back so far that her center of lift is slightly aft of her center of gravity, making her nose down in level flight. The affect is accentuated when the pilot increases flaps and throttles in this flyby. Most airplanes have center of lift slightly forward of center of gravity which makes them fly slightly nose up.
@GeoSciful The AOA (wing angle of attack) is positive, even though the aircraft is climbing nose low. The wing is mounted with a significant pitch vs the fuselage. It works out to make sense at altitude, but it looks weird low and slow.