Packing Technique for Neatly Open the B-52 Bomber's Massive Drogue Parachute
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- Опубликовано: 7 мар 2024
- A 43.5 foot (13.3 m) diameter, 90 foot (27 m) long, 200 pound (90 kg) drogue parachute (drag chute) that deploys when a U.S. Air Force bomber B-52 Stratofortress lands.
When a drag chute is deployed upon landing, two parachutes are used. A smaller pilot chute is used to pull the bigger main chute out of its container.
After use parachutes should be dried to avoid mold and other problems caused by water. Drying time is 12 hours for air bases with parachute drying towers and 48 hours for those without.
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When I served in the RAF, during the cold war, as an aircraft engineer we worked alongside USAF when they came over to the UK on bombing training missions against our Vulcan squadrons. We had the Texans and California aircraft over at our base. We showed them British hospitality and BEER and had a great time. Back then the B52 had tail gunners and I managed to get a 'jolly' flight in one! SUPERB.
One time a tail chute failed and I went up with one of the crews to find out why. It had a bent release pin ! I was given this as a souvenir which I have to this day. Hi BUDDIES. We even swapped articles of uniform with them (highly frowned on) so we wandereed around in baseball caps with American field jackets on and they walked around in British DP jackets! Great guys now also my age probably - Would serve with them again any time if it all kicked off again. To all the new friends we made - take care and thanks for your service - Respect to y'all my brothers. Incredible aircraft to fly in! Probably be using them to kick commy asses again soon? The B52's have carried on sadly our Vulcans are long gone
I was aircrew on Navy EA-3s. We packed our own drag chutes. When installing the bag into the tail of the aircraft, the engines were turning, the asphalt was burning, and I lay on my back to kick the bag upward into the tail. If the jet was low on fuel, the tail was 4 feet above the deck, and it was near impossible to reach that high. Rain, jet exhaust, darkness. Nasty job. Navy aircrew was the most fun job I ever had.
Thank you for your service
Wow that’s crazy! Why was it reloaded when the engines were burning?
@@cruisinguy6024It's called a Hot Turnaround. That lets the jet continue missions back-to-back quickly. Because once you shut down the engines, it can't fly again until the oil is checked for engine wear and tear, which is a half-hour delay at least. Plus, jets tend to break when they are started up, so we just keep the engines turning.
Yeah, it increases the pucker factor.
@@TomSwift-wy1gx thanks for the explanation!
It's so much smaller than I thought it would be and it works so well.
We never drug our chutes all the way to the parking spot. Always dropped by the runway end, otherwise you put too much wear on the chute.
For extra fun points, try loading a G/H chute that was packed at a D base or loading a D chute packed at a G/H base. A-F chute was rectangular and G/H is square so you had to beat to fit.
I worked security around B52's 50 years ago. Never saw how chutes were packed. Thanks
寝袋さえ綺麗に畳めない自分にとってこんなでかいの畳むなんて凄いと思う。
You and me both, bro. XD
Thanks for the memories.
Folding even one parachute is a difficult task. I commend you for your careful work.
Not difficult, it’s an exact job
Honestly, it's not a precision job. You can learn it in ten minutes by doing it while being instructed in the field. It's not like a personnel parachute.
The chin up bar is pretty useful!
This is so amazing and interesting. Great work guys.
60 years ago we'd be outside playing and a B52 would pass over and pop its chute and run up its engines. It got your attention. The chutes were huge, green, and slotted. I've had people since tell me I was crazy, that the 52 never used chutes.
Neat
Sorry but NO B52 would ever deploy its chute while flying. That would be catastrophic for the aircraft and crew.
@@ronfry3324 Sorry, but I personally saw it at least 3 times.
My grandpa was a b-47 crew chief and the ground crew would bring out the chute and it was a 2-3 person job to put it in because it weighed like 100 lbs and for some reason he had always had to do it by himself and sometimes they had the pilot not deploy it so he wouldn’t have to re pack it 😂
Dudes forearms are beast! Damn
Outstanding Presentation.
仕事をしながら同時に筋トレもできるだと！？ OMG!!
お疲れさまです､ドラッグシュート久しぶりに見ました😊
"Bomber on the deck...15 you got 'chutes!"
thats def guam with that king car on the desk!
This is awesome. I love RUclips (not the leadership)
Talk about labor intensive. I wonder how many chutes they have to repack everyday ?
ゴリマッチョになれそうですね！
I grew up when a couple miles from BAFB for 42 years. Most unmistakable sounding plane ever. We not only did tornado drills in school we did fallout drills. I find it hilarious considering being that close to a SAC base, we would of been in a deep smoldering crater anyway
Bergstrom?
@@jcheck6 Barksdale AFB in Louisiana
ドラッグシュートなしでも、他の飛行機同様逆噴射で停止できるものと思っていましたが、B５２は逆噴射しないのでしょうか？
機体自体が古くて、開発された当時はジェットエンジンの逆噴射機構が開発されてない
それでドラッグシュートを使う場合、着陸に必要な距離が2000mくらいに縮まる
でも、B52自体が離陸するのに3000m必要だから、結局のところ逆噴射機構搭載したエンジン開発するよりもドラッグシュート積んだ方が整備が楽だしお財布にも優しい
知らんけど
Most people don't know that the drogue (drag to some) chute isn't only to slow when landing. If the aircraft is in a spin or some other uncontrolled attitude it can be used to help recover then jettisoned.
A drag chute is very different to a drogue chute.
The drogue is the first part to deploy and is usually pushed out into the airflow by a large spring or some other mechanism. You can see it in the video because it's white whereas the main drag chute is brown. The drogue chute then pulls out the main chute which slows the aircraft down and is usually jettisoned on the runway or taxyway for collection by ground crew.
@@125brat Drogue or drag can be used interchangeably
That chute is too damn big to be used as a spin chute, surely it would get ripped apart. Wouldn't stop me from trying as a last ditch effort though. We had spin chutes on out flight test aircraft at Bombardier Learjet. Even our biggest jets, Global & C-series, the chutes were relatively small. They had ejector tubes and some explosive cutters. All test aircraft had escape & egress systems if they had to bail out. Learjets had an explosive cutter charge that cut a huge hole through the fuselage since it had no other openings to use or suitable modify for escape.
Thats BS, pure and simple.
@@125brat Good explanation Brat.
Now there’s an MOS with a fast track to medical school.
AFSC
I wish that they had a camera on or near the door so we could see the parachute being deployed.
So is Buff chute rigger a full time MOS? Or does each crew do there own? Looks like a pain in the ass!
It's a specialty all its own. Dedicated field.
@@barrygrant2907 So not necessarily just B-52 chutes but rigging in general is an MOS?
@@mytmousemalibu Believe so.
@@barrygrant2907 Seems like it would get old real fast Barry. Did they have other jobs that they could interchange?
@@jcheck6 No, I don't think there were a lot of them at a base and it took a lot of time to repack a chute, especially if wet. A heavy bomber flight schedule kept them busy.
Watched one drop the chute at the wrong time , the strong tail wind billlowed it open and flew it up over the right wing where # 6,7&8 engines devoured the chute.
7 & 8 had sucked up some much that they couldn't split the engines for repair.
Also, unless they changed the tub the chute goes in you never just dropped the chute in like they did.
The tubes were fiberglass. There is a 3/4 in hole in the bottom tha a retaining pin on the bottom of the chute goes through. At 200+lbs dropping the chute to mant times breaks the fiberglass bottom. That can Scrub your aircraft for the day.
And the Tubbs aren't easy to change.
Odd seeing them without guns sticking out the back
I take it on all the older models, prior to the G & H model, that still had the quad 50's and physical rear gunner, the chute must have basically been right behind his head/back. Those old J57's were tough but I can't imagine they faired well eating the laundry! We had a B-52D at our air museum here, love seeing that tall shark fin on the old models too, it just looks right!
@@mytmousemalibu The "tall-tail" models all dropped their chutes from the bottom, mounted underneath the tail gunner. They had a higher failed-to-open rate because th3e chute tended to drag on the ground before catching enough air to fill.
@@barrygrant2907 Very interesting, thanks for the insight. Understandable with the failures since its not lofted up in a cleaner airstream like the top mounted. We had to re-angle the chutes on our promod. They were too low, not lofting up and wrapping around the wheelie bar and these were a spring-drogue type chutes.
Do they carry spare parachutes on board the aircraft in case they land at an airfield which doesn't have any?
On A-3s we packed it ourselves, rain or shine, upon landing, wherever we were.
Some aircraft do, usually when it's a planned landaway.
I don't know where they'd put it, its a huge plane without an inch to spare!
No, they do not.
@@crew-dog2668 Is a B-52 allowed to take-off without a parachute?
What’s happening at 2:44 ?
for neatly open
Ladies and gentlemen, the worst job in the AF 😂
The aircraft carrier group gives priority to attacking its tail! (The main purpose is to destroy its power system), as for how to attack and destroy the power system of its aircraft carrier fleet. Air-to-sea low-altitude flight combat! It is easier to destroy its power system!
蕎麦打っとるんかい
Why don't they update the B-52 with thrust reversers?
Why??? The drag chutes are required for very few landings. Can you imagine the cost to design and install thrust reversers for eight engines and 88 aircraft??? Not necessary!!
Apart from the C-5, C-141, C-17 and a few others, basically everything else doesn't have TRs. The KC-135 and KC-46 for example, the civil variants all have TRs but not the military jets. The 46 is brand new and it still doesn't have them. They are extra weight, extra maintenance, extra cost, extra failure point, and not needed. Most of the aircraft stop perfectly well with brakes and drag devices just fine. I wondered the same thing at one point but it makes sense on why they dont. The transportation aircraft, it is justified to have them.
@@eagle2019The drag chutes were used for almost every landing. It saves wear and tear on the brakes.
@@eagle2019 Having worked with B-52s much of my career, I can state the drag chute is almost aways deployed. It's much more cost effective to repack a drag chute than replace the brakes.
nightmare job
Come fold my fitted sheets
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I DONT SEE ANY WOMEN DOING THIS JOB.
1番自分に向いてない作業だ…パイロットとかの人命がなければ適当にやってしまいそう…
Poor maintainers working on the flightline... sucky life for sure
Imagine doing this for 12 hours a day....
At least they can have cool mustaches and, under the current leadership, are allowed to wear men's or women's uniforms depending how they feel when they wake up in the morning.....
Can't even imagine what it's like in an AF Gym locker room at this point.
Doesn't work that way.
You dont know what you are talking about, I lived the life, you know nothing. Castle AFB CA 77-81 B52 G & H models
Kamoflyie of parasuite
I did not find any unsafe factors throughout the entire workflow. The personnel protection measures and working environment are both very good.
B52にのエンジンにスラストリバーサーが取り付けられたら良いのに……。
ロシアの戦闘機と爆撃機も着陸後はドラッグシュートを広げる機種ばかり……。
スラストリバーサーを全てのジェット軍用機の標準になれば良いですね……。
パナビアトーネードやサーブ37ビゲンの着陸後の急減速と短い距離で停止するシーンは頼もしく感じてしまいます。
B-52程の大きさともなると機体への負荷や整備性の観点から難しいのでしょうね
昨今の米軍では機体性能以上にランニングコストを抑えることが重要視されてますし
Where my real riggers at
Great job!
I will be sure always.
Rigger 1 SMSgt. USAFRC Retired