US is Testing Brand New B-52s To Fly For A Full Century
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- Having made its first flight during the Cold War era, the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress continues to perform strategic missions into the 21st century.
Having successfully stood the test of time and technology, the legendary bomber has proven its reliability and adaptability in ever-changing military environments around the world, becoming a symbol of strength and intimidation.
But can numerous upgrades extend the B-52’s service life by another 50 years?
Let’s find that out right now!
My dad flew on the B-52's in the 1960's as a Crew Chief. He's sadly is gone on but that plane he crewed in still goes on.
I salute your Dad
As did mine!!!!
My gratitude to your father for his service to our country. My condolences to you and your family in his passing. My fervent appreciation to you for your serving in the Navy. I urge you to write a book on his and your respective duties in those times.
I once met a young officer who was the command pilot of the same B52 her father piloted. Amazing aircraft.
"Her" father piloted? I guess Hellen Reddy's song had an impact. Good for her, these primitive, outdated, biblical ideas about woman may finally be at an end. My sister's friend Flys a Grumman COD off aircraft carriers. You've come a long way baby.
I got that wrong, Cod is the mission of the plane, it's name is the Grumman Greyhound. It's used to bring mail supplies and people to and from the carrier. Basically a puggy version of The E2C without the dish on top.
As I understand it some of these H models are being flown by the grandsons and granddaughters of the men who first flew them. Incredible service length.
I was a crew chief on F-4's and was on the "end of runway" crew so I got to be at the end of the runway when the B-52's took off and landed. I loved when they turned the landing gear to crab for landing in cross wind. Being under them at take off was a moving experience.
@elrobo3568 F4 fathom, F4F Wildcat, F4u Corsair? So many planes have had that designation, if a B52 was involved it had to be the the Fanthom, since the others were WW2 planes
Was ground crew park em pump em and inspect and call your specialists then put em to bed so preflight crews can get em ready for flight crews and launch
The B52 and A10 must never be removed from service.
I have a pix of my best friend next to an A10 Warthog at Mcguire AirForce base at an air show featuring The Blue Angels. The A10, like the Grumman F14, were both made right here on Long Island. Grumman and Republic are sadly out of business. My Father was supervisor of tool and die at Grumman. My uncle worked at Republic. The A10 was named the Thunderbolt 2, in honor of the p47 Thunderbolt. The pilots renamed it Warthog because they felt it was not attractive!
@@RobertGraziose But if you're a soldier in the field and the enemy is closing in, some A-10's showing up and going BRRRRRRR against the enemy is more beautiful than Marylin Monroe in her prime.
@@protorhinocerator142 did you know that the plane was designed around that gatling gun?
@@RobertGraziose Absolutely.
We need a big ol' gun that goes BRRRRRR.
Oh, and make it fly somehow.
@protorhinocerator142 The gun was around, they needed a platform to deliver it. You ever see the videos where they decimate a truck with a 3 second burst from the A 10?
What is truly amazing about the B-52 is that it first took flight in 1952 - a year before I was born & will be flying long after I am gone. I do hope Boeing gets their act together. They have produced some of the greatest aircraft to fly. Shalom
Yes the war was one by the B-17, B-24 form Boeing. As well as that great British Bomber the Lancaster.
@politicsuncensored5617 Is Boing having problems? I know that spacecraft they sent up weeks ago stranded the crew. NASA is going to have to rescue them. But are they having other problems?
@@RobertGraziose You have not watched any videos of the problems with the Boeing passenger aircraft? Problems over the past couple years with parts failing, falling off during flight, including engines. Where have you been during this time? Shalom
@politicsuncensored5617 Yea I have seen that stuff, the one where the whole top of the airplane was sad, they said a flight attendant was sucker's out. I did know all of these planes were all made by them. Me and the news lately are like the Paul Simon song "The Only Living Boy In New York," "I get the news I need on the weather report. I can gather all the news I need on the weather report"
I guess I outgrew my morbid curiosity.
@politicsuncensored5617 You did see that space rocket right? It messed up and a "Three Hour Tour", has turned into nightmare for those astronauts. They were supposed to come right away, now NASA will have to rescue them, I think months from now.
Papa Buff lives forever🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸👍👍👍😁😎
Ain't nothing ugly about this majestically beautiful bird!
I WILL BE LONG BURID AND RETURNED TO DUST BEFORE THIS AIRCRAFT LANDS FOR THE LAST TIME…..GOD SPEED GRANDPA…PROTECTOR OF AMERICA AND HER ALLIES….GOD SPEED….❤
The A-10&the B -52 should never be put in the scrap yard I’m a military brat be smart and keep them😊
The B52 is simply a classic.Ageless,ever new,more deadly
By far my favorite military airplane not to dish on the F-22s or the C-xx airplanes but I was able to see one at the Pima Air & Space Museum in Arizona. What an incredible airplane!
A monster - which epitomizes American strength.
@Bduh2 I have a picture here of me under a static display of a decommissiond B52 at the AirForce academy in Colorado. Shows how big this plane is.
*** Being a Boeing project makes it suspicious to me. Boeing: "No job too big, no fee too big"
Boing has gone downhill and needs to be redone top to bottom….
The military has tried to replace the B-52 since the day it was placed in service.
"Can't do it"
I was crew chief on the b52d model during vetinam. GUAM AND OKINAWA. FLEW ON SOME MISSIONS WITH MY PLANE. NOT FOR ANYONE WHO CAN NOT STAND BEING IN TIGHT PLACES. I TRUST THE OLD BUFF
Putting new engines on the BUFF doesn't make it brand new.
What about the other modifications, she's not the same bird
They have just about replaced everything on buff more than once, rebuilt to J that is a lot of rebuilds. Some mods the stripped the skin off on some at some point to check for damages.
It works tho
No one said it would be a new plane, it has evolved over the years, and overall it’s nothing like the original B-52.
@@mikewalsh1402the TITLE says it😂
Superb UK Rolls Royce engines on board now.
Actually Rolls Royce USA which means th UK will see no benefit from this contract
@@mothmagic1 There had to be a catch to it . . .
I cannot imagine any of our new bombers lasting 100 years unless that was part of the design criteria...
Like all old, dependable aircraft, it was designed with slide rules, manual math, and manual drafting. The advent of CAD began the slide to engineering exactly to specifications and not real-world likelihoods and conditions.
@@ssaraccoiiThe Slide rule got us to the moon and back too. 55 years ago and we still are having an effort getting back.
@@ssaraccoiiThe original rough design was done by 3 Boeing engineers in a hotel room in Ohio and used balsa wood to carve a model.
I was a crew member on the buff ten years ago and my eyes light up every time i see one.
Is it really necessary to create a Stupid Photo Shop of 12 engine BUFF. It's just insulting.
@WindsurferHD Sometimes it's essential to criticise stupidity . . .
It does not have 12 engines has 8 felt safer on that plane than any commercial plane made
They are the coolest looking bombers to me
This video was fascinating to a novice like myself, thank you.
The Buff is tired but she keeps on keeping on. I was a crewchief on them
Would LOVE to see how one built with Modern Materials and practices would perform. Lighter weight, better fuel economy and longer range. IMAGINE THE POSSIBILITIES. The ONLY limit is someone's check book.
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I imagine that there will be very few crewed aircraft in the military fleet by 2050.
I enjoy your content it's both interesting and exciting. I like to see the growth and power of the USA military. Thank you.
Station at KAFB Mi. in the early 60's, we had F106 & B52's. I worked on the 6's, but what was interesting the F106 used 1 truck to load fuel, and the B52 used many trucks to load fuel.
Every time a B-52 launches, the Earth's orbit perturbs and its spin is either slowed or sped up. Gads they're heavy beasts! And that's before adding payload!
I never heard any "Mud Marine" turn down an "Arc light" when the nva was breathing down their neck!!!!
I'll never understand how they can retire planes like the F-117 or SR-71 and talk about retiring the F-22 and maybe the B-2 at the same time as upgrading this old bird. Crazy logic!
B2 was a FUBAR money pit.
The redt never really had more than niche use.
B52 is comparably a practical, utilitarian platform with multiple misdion.use and has been upgraded and modernised repeatedly.
Apparently it can still be upped to ever-changing needs.
It alsobwas dedigned ehrn Boeing was really Boeing.
@@jamesbowen2105Any chance you can slow down typing on your keyboard. It avoids writing a complete load of incoherent bollocks.
@adrianpoole9201 sorry, the B2 was an obsolete money pit before production was canceled.
F117 likewise was nonfunctional in its original role before limited production was started.
F22 has been superseded by its modular descendants on the same platform.
Only the B52 pergotmef ad intended and witj multi versatile utility, with a sound original design that has been proven capable of being upgraded and modernized repeatedly.
It also was dedigned by the real BOEING Corporation before it was integrated into McDonnell Douglas group.
Add, it's so big Atlas himself could be mounted to one and they'd still have space left over. Before it's done I wouldn't be surprised to see a Megawatt laser weapon system integration b4 retirement.
@@jamesbowen2105
What is meant by ‘pergotmef ad’??
My dad worked on this while in TAC and SAC!!
Russia,China - watch this!
They don't have to. China builds roads instead of bombers and they are building a spiderweb around the US and their ME ally.
I am so happy for the B-52. I can remember when she first became a shiny new part of the U.S. Air Force and I wish for her many more active years in the future.
Just build updated versions of the basic aircraft. But they won't, because that makes too much sense.
It actually does not make that much sense. These aircraft have very limited application in that they can only be used against tier 3 adversaries, where the US can establish air superiority and suppress integrated air defense networks. For most other adversaries, stealth has become essential and the B-1B and even the B-2 is no longer stealthy enough, so the Air Force knows it must upgrade to the B-21 to fight more capable adversaries. There are only about 75 B52s left in service, and that is probable all you need for tier 3 opponents, and it does not make sense to spend money on an updated B52 because of the small numbers needed, and the F-35 was so much more expensive than it was supposed to be, that the Air Force simply does not have the budget to design and build 75 more advanced B-52, and to continue to buy F-35s and B-21s. These newer aircraft are far more expensive to purchase and operate than they were supposed to be, so the budget simply does not allow them to take these side roads.
That's how it supposed to be, don't retire those planes, is just modernized and maintained them and good to go, that's why America is the best in the world!
These things have been re-skinned a couple of times,re-engined a bunch, avionics replaced and replaced again, the electronic warfare officer of 20 years ago would not recognize the gizmos on board now. Subsonic and not particularly stealthy, The plane keeps on ticking. I wonder if they still have the retractable iron sight at the center of the cockpit window in case all else fails. ( not kidding. They were there. Probably still are)
Forget the green house gas bs . Until these people stop using heat for their homes , gas for their cars and stop flying I don’t want to hear it
Just like the A-10, the B-52 was created and designed to serve a particular both, and both planes exceeded expectations. With modern upgrades, they will carry on serving the purpose they were designed for.
It's a great, old plane..... old plane. Maybe, just maybe, we should start planning a replacement for it. A big, modern great new plane.
As long as these design changes are properly thought through and executed given Boeing's recent record. They're screwing up regularly.
Rome, New York (former Griffiss AFB) had a tornado recently that damaged quite a few buildings and churches downtown. Amazingly, the twister was so strong it moved the static B52 display off of the stanchions onto the grass.
On my first day in Vietnam (377th USAF Dispensary E.R.) I was on the night shift and talking to another medic when the windows started rattling and minor floor vibrations. I was told it was BUFFs working out about 20 miles away. Hotel Sierra!
Cheers, Bob Powell, CMSgt, USAF(Ret)
Thanks , Enjoyed, Have been able to look inside a B52 at a few airshows over the years. One hell of an aircraft.
When an average citizen can afford one of these beauties...life will get much more fun!
Where's the 10/12 engine version shown in the pic? I enjoyed the video but you bs to viewers for clicks. 👎
I refueled these amazing aircraft in the early 60's. Love to see them still flying.
I worked at Columbus AFB when the B-52s were there. I worked on the new longer runway in 1968... Carl Thornton
On the 'cover' of this video, to attract you, it shows a ground troop of maintainers, with a BUFF that is carrying 12 engines (3 propulsion pods per wing) when normally there are two propulsion pods with two engines -- on EACH wing, making it an 8-engined aircraft. That alone should show you that this is a load and the authors -- not much better (if at all)!
"Brand new" B-52s? Something of an overstatement. Curb your enthusiasm.
Loop hose refueling? That's not the picture... "Eight twin engines..." sort of...
Being in SAC for 3 and a half years KAFB,MI get a little teary eyed seeing B 52's flying , I was 18 year old in aircraft electric shop ugly planes lol
As a Structures mech. I havent heard of any really great upgrades to the main spars and associated structures
A flight of these would end the war in both the Middle East and Ukraine
Nothing new here. When I worked with the DoD Ageing Aircraft program twenty years ago, the Air Force announced they planned to fly the B-52 until it was 100 years old.
Did Tect School on B-52. Chanute. Westover AFB Headquarters 8th Air Force SAC. KC-135 Sgt Ground Crew, launch&recovery. No Hero's, but you can sleep tight my little baby's. Pease the old fashion way!!
The B-36 and B-47 preceded the B-52, not the B-29
A major player in ending the Vietnam War and not even mentioned! Conventional weapons had a major role in it's past and should have been mentioned. I worked with them at Utapao Thailand in 1969-1970.
Going from 8 to 4 engines would require a full rebuild of the wings. As told to me by a B-52 crew chief
Thank you Sir !
What a Beautiful aircraft!.... close, but not there, to the Warthog...
Sometimes the government gets things right. This time they maxed getting it right by not ordering unneeded and superfluous things.
US must keep those aircrafts B52 and A10 they are very powerful aircrafts
They just don't make um like they use to.
This picture is wrong, the engines are supposed to be turned the other way around
Yes let those know what they can expect 👊👊👊👊👊👊👊
If it still does the job, why not keep it around?!👍😄
I hope the new engines don’t put the B52 out of Balance.
Truly a site to see seen one in side and outside huge plain😅
I am sure the thumb nail for this flick showed THREE pairs of engines per wing ( meaning twelve engines all up ). You're full of it.
Finally retiring Puff and Weeze and installing first class Rolls Royce Allison engines is the way to go! Woo hoo!!!
The only Boeing aircraft I have any confidence in anymore. Don’t F this up too Boeing.
Why the hell didn't they get upgraded Pratt engines?
Where is the massive drone force. its time , we know how.
from what i can gather this is just a made over b52 in other words same air frame just new equipment
What about metal fatigue of wings,fuselage.
No, but new avionics do!
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Going built this long before boing started Have problems like flying apart in mid sir. Keep in mind the landed it after part of it landed before the rest of the plane did. Never sit close to a door or anything that looks like one.
Just a great old work horse🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
David R Lentz, Columbus, Ohio, USA (Thursday, 12 September, 2024)
You start with giving us an immensely interesting historical look during apprehensive times with a remarkable physical symbol of our constant vigilance and readiness as deterrence, the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress USAF Strategic Bomber. At 1:50, you show how in 1957 another element of that process, the means to refuel in flight our long-legged guardian, had come into operational use.
Oddly enough, at 2:08, you show footage of President Harry S. Truman (who well prior to that date had left office) meeting with the dictator Jozef Stalin, who in 1953 had died. Such errors of composition, editing, fact checking, etc., quite trouble me, for they fail to match the flow of actual events. The very essence of historical chronicling and journalistic reportage is accuracy in fact. In other words, truth.
Ist it an easy target for anti aircraft long range missiles?
Mr WATOP!!!
Trump made sure this plane will live on for a long time.
Politics always Politics 😢.
Could you get someone other than Kermit the frog to narrate ?
The last BUFF pilot has yet to be born
LISTEN UP! There will never, EVER be a fleet wide program to replace the engines on the B-52. NEVER, EVER for one simple reason: the aircraft simply do not fly enough hours annually to justify the cost. Retaining and maintaining the current engines being much more cost effective. PERIOD, FULL STOP.
BTW, at 7.59, it's not "left" wing, it's the right one!
Make a rewrite in facts.
Just a thought.
Brand new ENGINES, not "brand new B-52s".
There are ZERO "brand new" B-52s.
ONLY THE ENGINES ARE BRAND NEW (and maybe some of the electronics).
Middle of the next century? 2150? El Toro Caca!
These are not new planes these are rebuilt and updated planes !!!
Great Bomber for years but flying it with the modern anti aircraft weapons that China and Russia has today makes me wonder if the plane is still suitable for today's wars .
Flying, not fat.
So it goes a little faster. So what? If you don’t control the skies…
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I love 8 engines
Naceller? Surely you mean nacelle?
The only time that the taxpayers really got our money’s worth.
Humanity continues to destroy humanity !!
Your photo shop first image is just silly. Not going to listen to article.
Not enough money to buy new, next generation planes?
Brand new is a lie. The last B-52 (H) airframe was laid down in 1962, 62 years ago! No 'brand new' ones have been made. It's an overhaul and a refit.
*Air-frame fatigue??????*
Well engineered, not using old airframes
They have been upgraded and overhauled many times. This was in part to relieve stress and improve structural support.