My brother was a radar navigator on one of these. He was killed along with six other crew members on April 11, 1983 in a crash in Utah. My family was absolutely devastated by his death. He was a brilliant young man. I think about him every day. Fly high brother...I love you and miss you everyday.
I used to watch these take off from Kadena AFB in 1969 headed to Laos loaded to the hilt with 500 pound bombs in the bomb bay and under their wings. What took off first were the KC 135 tankers to refuel them when they got in the air. There would be a KC 135, some B 52s another KC135 more B 52s! Also had the very secret SR 71 there too!
I'm sure I'll get many disagreements, but this plane is like an albatross bird. It does not take off gracefully, and doesn't land gracefully, but it does fly beautifully!
I used to live near Ohio's Wright Patterson AFB in the 70s and these flew over every day. They were so large they seemed to just drift by with hardly a sound. Amazing aircraft!
My wife and I often went to Wright Hill to watch them take off between 1972 - 76. As a young 2nd Lt. we did not have much money. This was cheap entertainment. They were a thing of beauty and still are.
I worked on them parked them put fuel on them and took them apart and repaired them then put them to bed amazing,at times frustrating but a machine that seemed to love you back
I was in the US MARINES at Futema air facility in Okinawa. When I drove past Kadena air force base these great planes were there and I always stopped to watch then take off or land. Totally awesome. A real sight to see and hear.
My big brother was a Marine in Vietnam in '68 - '69 who came back a huge fan of B-52s. His description of witnessing B-52 Arc Light raids from the perspective of Marines on the ground made an impression on me. Actually, the BUFFs flew so high the Marines never actually "witnessed" the BUFFs themselves, only the "rolling thunder" from the ordinance they delivered. It was apparently pretty awesome. I don't know if his stories had anything to do with it, but later in the '70s I ended up in the USAF on B-52Ds (the AF part was intentional, B-52s were just the luck of the draw). Knowing they were his favorite aircraft, I sent him a B-52 t-shirt in the mail. Years later after my AF days were long over he and I were swapping military stories (some of them actually true), and he told me he had worn that t-shirt until was ragged.
Old Gringo Yeah, I was lucky enough to be stationed on a SAC base in 75(Loring,Maine; has since been closed). We used to sit at the end of the runway at nite, watching them take off. Its like a building. But, to your point, many got shot down over Nam with primative missles.
And the story of the B-52 is far from over. First flown in 1953, with modernization programs the US Air Force plans to keep them in the fleet until about 2050 or later. That's a 100 year airplane my friend.
I spent 2 years at Andersen AFB Island of Guam when it was changed from a Strat wing to a bomb wing. I worked in the bomb dump 43rd MMS. I miss those B52s.
@@thomaswalsh5097 I worked on the Titan II re entry vehicle as a Nuclear Weapons Specialist at Davis Monthan AFB, I can’t remember the squadron number. I came from being on a Missile Crew for the Mace Missile in Okinawa at Kadena AFB. what a difference! You always read the SAC sucks, and I found out why!
@@johnevans388 Your quote:"It amaze me how something big can take flight". Well the Antonov 225 Mriya is way bigger. It's as well bigger as the Lockheed C-5 Galaxy. Mriya even flies more elegant than the Galaxy, I've seen in a air show, many years ago.
They have been around a very long, long time. It is insane that such an old aircraft is still so very relevant to this day. Then again we still fly the U-2.
It is absolutely amazing that this aircraft is still flying after 69 years! . . .there has always been talk about retiring it. We get to see them flying over our house quite frequently; ALWAYS go out to see it IF there isn't cloud cover obstructing the view.
keep in mind that plenty of those accidentally dropped whatever they were carrying for some reason i wouldn't be so happy about them flying over my house
Saw B-52s take off at Hill AFB in Ogden UT in the early 90s while Desert Storm was going on. The sound, the SMOKE TRAIL - this video brought it all back. It’s hard to describe it - like a beast being unleashed. Terrifying to think of the firepower this aircraft can carry and deliver. I’m still in awe.
I used to breath the sight and sound of them intimately for 4 yrs. Many longer than I did. It was sometimes boring, sometimes intense , often painful . I don't regret it.
Nothing like a "Buff" takeoff!! I was stationed in 1969 at U-Tapao RTAFB, Thailand during the Vietnam Conflict. We had about 50 Buffs there and they were magnificent to watch!!
This magnificent air machine has enough thrust that it is possible to still rotate with a 4 degree nose-down attitude. I was an avionics tech on these gems back 1973 to 1976, stationed at Loring AFB, Maine. Memories of riding the launch truck. AMS 5 was our radio call sign. What a time that was.
I got to go inside a B-52 at Patrick Air Force Base in Cocoa, FL at an air show. This is a massive, amazing aircraft. One of the best planes ever built.
@@SmokieOkie918 I was Stationed at Minot for my 20 yr. career with the exception of a 1 yr. tour in Panama. I got there in 74 and left Minot in 2011 not long after the flood.
These B52s would scare the sh*t out of us kids, when years ago they came low over the house to land at Upper Heyford Air base Oxfordshire, I miss the base, the Americans, the F1-11s, lovely times, lovely people.
We didn't have the '52's at our base, which was RAF Brize Norton. Of course, that was in 1963-'65. Brize was turned back over to Great Briton in '65, and we came home. We had the old B-47's then. I spent two years at Brize.
Cant comment on the B52s as the RAAF (here in Aus), never purchased them... but the F1-11s were one of the best fighter/bombers we had. Growing up near Amberley afb, I'll always remember the roar of the Pigs going over and seeing their dump and burns; i've many fond memories of them - long live the Pig.
They fly them around where I live. I hear them every day, every night. If one flys over while you're having a conversation you just stop, wait for it to pass, & pick up where you left off.
@@Arr1able yes and no. Idk how high they are at the time, but they fly them somewhat close to the ground with the landing gear down a lot (help keep them at operational status I guess). One will literally over power every other sound while it flys over. If you're not hearing one like that, you're hearing one off in the distance, flying over someone else lol.
In mid 1972 I finished a 1 year assignment in Vietnam flying a C-47. I was assigned to SAC as a B-52 pilot. I went to their 6 month school at Castle, AFB in California. I finished up my training flights just before Christmas 1972 and was scheduled for my final flight test on January 1, 1973. As I waited over the Christmas layoff, I sat and watched B-52's getting shot down over Hanoi. I thought: "Oh HELL. Here's another fine mess I've gotten myself into! I just survive a 1 year stint in Vietnam. NOW, I'm gonna go back over there and get shot down....in a B-52! WTF...OVER!"
At one time, the B-52 bombers were the world's largest and most feared bomber fleet. The US built a total of 744 B-52s. It's hard to imagine, isn't it.
I go to the Royal International Air Tattoo in England nearly every year, only ever seen the B-52 flying once, and it’s still the most terrifying aircraft I’ve had the fortune to see. Those engines screaming overhead, I can understand how the people of Vietnam felt when they were around
@@banjopete Oh how i would love one in my yardCan i can i please please awwww go on just one I promise to feed it and clean up after it I think my grandchildren would be thrilled I know i would be They are poetry of the air Jenny 😘
@@telsport A business park thats an awful thing to do to an AFB In Guerney Channel Islands where i live An American Air Force Base would be probably bigger than the island Our Airport is small i think the largest we have had in of any military aircraft has been the Hercules when they come over to pick up duty frees and practise take offs and landings I would love to be able to look out the window and see some of the us monsters of the sky not the commercial Aircraft but the real hard working ladies of the sky Still i can dream As for the baby in the video I still want one in my back yard Thanks for your reply Jenny 💕😘
When I was about 10 years old my father took us to Homestead Air Force Base and we got to get up close and personal with a B-52. Each engine pod was as large as our 1950 Buick Roadmaster.
Watched them land at Amarillo Air Force base when I was in high school (I'm 76 now). When I was younger than that I watched B-36s making low passes over the city on their way back to San Antonio ; I'll never forget that sound.
WPAFB was the home of SAC. Having lived close to the base I still remember watching those huge wings lift up before pulling the fuselage with them. It is amazing how much they move.
When I was in ROTC we went to Louisiana Air Force Base they gave us a tour of the the B-52 Top Speed: 650mph, Wingspan:185'0" Range: 8,800 mi, introduce: February 1955, Number built: 744, Engine types: Pratt & Whitney JT3D, Pratt & Whitney J57
I used to live near Barksdale main gate. When I was a kid, in Albany, Georgia, we were in the runway approach and would have those monsters fly about 100 feet above our house on take-off or landing. And, an ORI (Operation Readiness Inspection)? B-52's and KC-135's overhead once a minute for about a half hour! Our windows would rattle and we would have to cover our ears. But, to see those giants fly was so impressive. Seen in this video, to assist with crosswind takeoffs and landings, the main landing gear can be pivoted 20 degrees to either side from neutral. Preflight/taxi checklists require this pivoting to be tested. This yaw adjustable crosswind landing gear would be preset by the crew according to wind observations made on the ground.
We experienced the same situation at Ft. Bliss, El Paso TX back in 1959-1961. The military family housing complex was adjacent to the air strip there and when those huge B-52s would rev their engines and take off, everything would shake, rattle and roll!! We kids thought that it was so exciting, but our mother didn’t find it so fun...she was always trying to hold everything in place while the shaking was going on!
I noticed that pivoting and assumed a) that that was what it was for, and b) why they did it while taxiing pre-flight. Thanks for confirming that for me.
I was raised just north of Dayton Ohio. Very near Wright Patterson AFB. In the 60s Mom used to pack up a Picnic and Dad would drive us over to watch the B-52s take off and land. Amazing they’re still a capable aircraft. That was a fun activity for a couple Farm kids. The Air Force Museum there is amazing too. It’s a Crime they didn’t get a Space Shuttle. It’s a one day drive for 60% of Americans and has never charged admission.
Dad flew these outta Westover and McCoy from 1958 and the 60's during Chrome Dome and in VN outta Guam and later Utapou. Music to my ears always. RIP Dad and High Flight!
When i was a kid i got to watch them take off several times my Dad was stationed at Bergstrom. Air Force SAC Air Command outside Austin in the early 60's always a kick in tbe pants watching these big birds fly
and they're the most lethal bombers in the world still, they're just that effective...if you're the enemy and that big ole girls' over-head, you're so done hehe
@@marksmith2714 they've been modified with the latest technology, 'resto-modded' in effect...if they're such fossils, they sure get the job done like the 'modern' bombers
I am a GA pilot, but I am blown away by the sight and sound of the B-52 Stratofortress! It is interesting that with a 185' wingspan, it needs those small wheels at the ends of the wings! Beautiful bird! And to hear one for real, can rumble your whole body inside. Amazing aircraft. We're very proud of our aircraft and all who fly them up into the wild blue yonder. Be safe, and may the Force be with you!
Saw a cold war version of a B52 while at Hickam AFB in Hawaii & believe me you haven't seen anything like it when it taxied & attained a speed over 100 miles an hour before take off simply awesome.
Barksdale used runway on occasion that brought them over my house really low. It was almost deafening..... I loved it!!! The sound of freedom..... And eight smoking engines.
A person doesn't wonder what this awesome machine does, one already knows what it is used for just by its meanesing look, incredible that father and sons have flown this remarkable machine, thank you for your service, God bless..
Our house was in the flight path of KAFB in Michigans UP. When an alert went off 13 or 14 of these big B52s would roar over the house at 3:00 am. They rattled the house so much my Mom couldn’t keep a Knick-knack on a shelf. It’s a sound you never forget even though it was 60 years ago
My dad was a crew chief on these as his SAC, Castle AFB was the first to get them on June 29, 1955 while he was stationed there. Pretty awesome and very loud.
B-52: flies over Vietnam in the 60s and early 70s Vietnamese ppl with our anti-aircraft weapons: look, here comes more metal to make tools and furniture
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Looks like it would be a real handful in a crosswind. The word "iconic" is over-used these days but if one aircraft could be said to be iconic for representing air power during the decades-long Cold War, it's the B-52.. What an aeroplane! One of Boeing's finest products.
It is amazing to contemplate that 4-5 generations of aviators have commanded these beautiful warbirds across the globe for 70 or so years. I am not a pilot, but it appears that the B-52 rotates off the ground into a very gradual climb from a long take off roll. I am guessing (again non-pilot!) that it would need quite a bit of airspeed and altitude before any sort of aggressive flying was attempted. I recall reading that early jet designs were very slow and vulnerable on the take off roll and the landing approaches.
These bad boys used to fly out of a base near Marquette, MI. I was often in meetings in the local hospital when they would fly out over lake Superior and make turns. The whole hospital would shake! impressive.
Simply "AWESOME" when watching these B-52 Statofortress marvels from Boeing Corporation. Truly shows America's MIGHT and POWER when looking at these bad boys, even when there resting on the tarmac.
Man, this thing is more like a giant bird than a man-made construction. Even the way it wobbles from one side to the next is like it’s saying “I’m not meant to be on the ground, dammit! You gave me wings now let me flyyyyyyy!”
It was not "wobbling" around, the crew was just checking the crosswind crab limits of the landing gear, which turns up to 20 degrees off-center in either direction. This enables a fully loaded B-52 to take off into as much as a 50 knot direct crosswind while still staying in the middle of the runway. Probably the best bargain the USAF ever purchased. I flew over 4000 hours in the D-model, which was built in 1955-56 and cost around a paltry 8.5 million to build. Also one of the sturdiest, most forgiving airframes of all time.
I grew up near Castle Air Force Base. The 93rd Bombardment Wing trained pilots for a long time. As teenagers we used to go sit outside the fence, near the runway and watch these huge beasts come in to land. They were so huge and seemed to be flying so slowly that it was amazing that they could stay in the air. We were so close that the pilots would often give us a little salute as they went overhead. We lived in the flight path and everyone in my neighborhood knew that if you were on the phone with someone when one of these guys were flying overhead you had to tell them, "Hang on a minute; Plane." Good times.
Growing up in So Dak I got to see a lot of these in the 70s and 80s. My dad was retired Army so got most of his VA medical stuff done at Elsworth AFB. One memory I have is we were leaving the base after he had his teeth checked out in prep for dentures. As we are waiting in line at the Main Gate, which in those days was just down range of the end of the main runway, suddenly the gate closed. Immediately after every single BUFF(Big Ugly Fat F'er) on the base took off. Right over our heads. That is a lot of rumbling. Twelve to twenty B52s. Didn't find out till we got home that the SAC computer glitched and said we had incoming ICBMs from Russia. We didn't but it was enough to sortie the entire flight. Second memory was from Jr High band practice. The band room was on a second floor with big 70s style windows that over looked the Missouri river valley. This was at Chamberlain, SD. Suddenly every window started rattling. Looking towards the river we all saw a B52 clearing the superstructure of the bridges by 30 to 50 yards. This was when some "genius" thought it would be a good idea to take a high altitude bomber and have the flight crews start training for a low level penetrator roll that the B52 was never designed for. It was extremely impressive watching it bellow the cloud of black smoke out of it's 8 Pratt and Whitney's as it rumbled down the river valley.
Given the missile threat over Russia, the USAF determined it would have "better luck" going into Russia, "low level", than trying to penetrate at the altitudes it was originally designed to strike at. And the B-52 had no problem doing that!
On January 7, 1971 I was an 18 year old kid riding in an apple truck driving from Boyne City Michigan back to Petoskey Michigan. It was just getting dark and as we were driving the sky lit up in biggest fireball I had ever seen. Then we heard the explosion which scared our driver even more because he was older and knew about the Big Rock Nuclear plant (NOW CLOSED) that was also on the edge of lake Michigan and from where we were and the explosion the plant was between us. We didn't know what it was till we arrived in Petoskey and finally heard it on the Radio. It was a B-52C Stratofortress Registration number 54-266 with 9 crew on board that crashed into lake Michigan on a training mission and blew up. All crew died and were never recovered. The salvaged parts were recovered in 225 feet of water by a company from Florida. If you visit this area there is an memorial along the highway just east of Charlevoix (Pronounced CHAR LA VOY) Michigan. It is a day I will never forget.
I had just turned 18 myself in December of 1971. That B-52 I'm guessing took off from (closed now) Wurtsmith AFB in Oscoda, Mi, bound for North Dakota. The B-52's would routinely practice air refueling runs from that base westward to about Minot AFB and turn around (without landing) and return to base.That being the case, those refueling runs would have routinely been flying over the vicinity of Petosky as that city is directly aligned below the sortie's path. I was stationed there (Wurtsmith AFB) for a few years from May of 71 to early part of 75. I knew every squadron staff officer and crew member in the tanker squadron there. The whole time I was there I never once heard about that crash from anyone...just weird.
Was on Mass Pike, 1972 one took off from Westfield Mass and it seemed like it was 3 feet above my car, so loud, so unexpected, so memorable, so proud to see my tax dollars preserved!
went to umass in the early 70's. used to see lots of them flying over en route to westover. my uncle was a navigator on b-52's and when i was about 10 or 11, 1960 or so, he got us into one. sat in the pilots seat.
The B-52s in this video were H models, the last model of B-52 produced and the only model to get the (at the time) new, much cleaner and quieter TF33 low bypass fan engines. The earlier A - G models all got water injected J57 turbojets. They were much smokier and louder than the TF33's on the H models.
Lived in Chicopee MA during the 60's which was home to the SAC airbase at Westover. At the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis we would be woken in the middle of the night as the B-52's were scrambled. It felt like the windows were all going to break and the house would fall down as they took off, we were scared the world was coming to an end. I think the racket was even worse when the KC-135's followed loaded with fuel!
Paul Phaneuf as a c 5 chief engineer and pilot I over hear that a lot. I need 8,000 feet to get off the ground when hauling two m1a1 tankS Thanks for watching and ur service. CAPTAIN AND SHIFT COMMANDER LABONTE AIR MOBILITY COMMAND PATRIOT WING.
Don't like war(machines), a bomb dropped by these things kills everyone, child ,women, men, soldiers, citizens, that's why I hate these bloody things. Nothing beautiful, just total MAYHEM....
How cool is it that grandkids are working on and flying a plane their grandparents worked on and flew. Seen a bumper sticker at Wright Pat that said "Peace thru Superior Firepower." All I can say to that is PRAISE GOD. and Thank You.
My brother was a radar navigator on one of these. He was killed along with six other crew members on April 11, 1983 in a crash in Utah. My family was absolutely devastated by his death. He was a brilliant young man. I think about him every day. Fly high brother...I love you and miss you everyday.
Sorry for your loss man
وماذا عن أطفال العراق، اللذين قتلو من قبل القوات لامريكيه
So sorry for your loss.
Lol!
RIP fallen hero
I flew them A HALF CENTURY AGO....and they STILL look awesome.
Half a century ago
@@beaconblaster33 *YAWNS* They do the job, so what's the issue?
@@kyokogodai-ir6hy grammarly
The Buff seems timeless a bit like the 747 the older it is the better it looks . Truly a magnificent piece of american aviation .
@@beaconblaster33 half of a century ago
This plane look beautiful and terrifying at the same time.
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I used to watch these take off from Kadena AFB in 1969 headed to Laos loaded to the hilt with 500 pound bombs in the bomb bay and under their wings. What took off first were the KC 135 tankers to refuel them when they got in the air. There would be a KC 135, some B 52s another KC135 more B 52s! Also had the very secret SR 71 there too!
I saw one in a fly over at a football game. The sound and sight were awesome. As the saying goes, "I'm glad they're on our side."
I remember when they flew over Dyess AFB. 😯
The silhouette of them rolling down the runway with the flaps out is intimidating as hell, love it.
WE LOVE IT ALL!
I'm sure I'll get many disagreements, but this plane is like an albatross bird. It does not take off gracefully, and doesn't land gracefully, but it does fly beautifully!
Just don't be under it when it drops it's payload lol
Yep, sipping a cool 3300 gph in the process...
And delivers a heck of a payload!
Lo mejor de la USAF que avión,que potencia felicidades USAF protegan esa hermosura 😍🇺🇸
Those big old metal condors now can fire cruise missiles at the Kremlin while flying just over the South Coast of Sweden.
Those B-52s gotta be, hands down, the most intimidating looking aircraft ever!!!! BAD ASS!!!!👍👍👍👍👍
+The Train Man+
You got that right! They look like giant, metal, lethal, condors.
It looks like Batman.
Scary sounding too with the screaming TF-33 turbofans
Lol dont Forget the Vulcan, thats number 1 for me but this is close
*Vulcan has entered the chat*
I used to live near Ohio's Wright Patterson AFB in the 70s and these flew over every day. They were so large they seemed to just drift by with hardly a sound. Amazing aircraft!
I was just at the museum last week
My wife and I often went to Wright Hill to watch them take off between 1972 - 76. As a young 2nd Lt. we did not have much money. This was cheap entertainment. They were a thing of beauty and still are.
I worked on them parked them put fuel on them and took them apart and repaired them then put them to bed amazing,at times frustrating but a machine that seemed to love you back
It's amazing how some of these guys are flying the same plane there grandaddy and in some cases their great grandaddy flew. Simply phenomenal
I was in the US MARINES at Futema air facility in Okinawa. When I drove past Kadena air force base these great planes were there and I always stopped to watch then take off or land. Totally awesome. A real sight to see and hear.
I was there also, 79 and 80 at Macs 4
My big brother was a Marine in Vietnam in '68 - '69 who came back a huge fan of B-52s. His description of witnessing B-52 Arc Light raids from the perspective of Marines on the ground made an impression on me. Actually, the BUFFs flew so high the Marines never actually "witnessed" the BUFFs themselves, only the "rolling thunder" from the ordinance they delivered. It was apparently pretty awesome. I don't know if his stories had anything to do with it, but later in the '70s I ended up in the USAF on B-52Ds (the AF part was intentional, B-52s were just the luck of the draw). Knowing they were his favorite aircraft, I sent him a B-52 t-shirt in the mail. Years later after my AF days were long over he and I were swapping military stories (some of them actually true), and he told me he had worn that t-shirt until was ragged.
I was at Camp Hansen in 72. Went to Kadena to pick up ammo once. Nice big chandelier in the mess hall. My uncle was a B-52 pilot in Nam.
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It’s like a 70 year old man that can still fight in the mma and still kick ass. Absolutely an amazing aircraft
Let's see if it can kick Ayatollah,s ass hhhhhh
Am Bo oh it can
Old Gringo Yeah, I was lucky enough to be stationed on a SAC base in 75(Loring,Maine; has since been closed). We used to sit at the end of the runway at nite, watching them take off. Its like a building. But, to your point, many got shot down over Nam with primative missles.
@@turtleman5111 well it seems like it's hard to dodge if your wings are the size of the statue of liberty
And the story of the B-52 is far from over. First flown in 1953, with modernization programs the US Air Force plans to keep them in the fleet until about 2050 or later. That's a 100 year airplane my friend.
Spent 4 years in SAC. Watching these take off never gets old.
When the world feared three little letters SAC.
I spent 2 years at Andersen AFB Island of Guam when it was changed from
a Strat wing to a bomb wing. I worked in the bomb dump 43rd MMS. I miss
those B52s.
@@thomaswalsh5097 unless you were in a SAC squadron, then you got to live the term, “SAC sucks! “
@@bugman9787 509Th SPS. So, yeah, SAC Silly Ass Circus.
@@thomaswalsh5097 I worked on the Titan II re entry vehicle as a Nuclear Weapons Specialist at Davis Monthan AFB, I can’t remember the squadron number. I came from being on a Missile Crew for the Mace Missile in Okinawa at Kadena AFB. what a difference! You always read the SAC sucks, and I found out why!
You know it's a long wing span when the wings have wheels on them , beautiful aircraft !!! 😀👍✈✈✈
I love the way B52 pilots start ‘flying’ the plane before they even leave the ground 👌
Saw these once a year when my Dad was in the RAF and still to this day, it amazes me how something so big can take flight.
The Antonov 225 Mriya seems to be twice as big than this one. ruclips.net/video/5jALTAeHLbQ/видео.html
Check out the vulcan what a beast for its time.
@@47rintin1 Yeah, but how many bombs can it drop?
@@johnevans388 Your quote:"It amaze me how something big can take flight". Well the Antonov 225 Mriya is way bigger. It's as well bigger as the Lockheed C-5 Galaxy. Mriya even flies more elegant than the Galaxy, I've seen in a air show, many years ago.
@@47rintin1 so you're telling me the "Antonov 225" is the biggest airplane in the world?
They have been around a very long, long time. It is insane that such an old aircraft is still so very relevant to this day. Then again we still fly the U-2.
GRANPA never SLEEPS
It’s really not bad when the power plants are at 10%, the ship is sailing, and the clock on board is standing
Even after watching a bunch of these take of, it’s always amazing to watch those wings find their lift. The camber becomes a graceful dihedral.
It looks like a groundloop nightmare
Thems wuz my thoughts too, dude: The camber indeed becomes a graceful dihedral! Woooeeeee!
“We pay for whole runway, we use whole runway”
That is what we call - the runway cleaner!
How long does the runway have to be for a safe takeoff and landing ?
@@georgeb.wolffsohn30 3-3.5 miles I presume. Some of them do have water injection to boost the engine thrust a take off
@@empe811That was a joke, right? A 3.5 mile long runway? Uh, no. No aircraft in existence that requires that much distance to achieve rotation speed.
@@empe811 The only B-52s still in service since the 1990s are H models, and they never had water injection.
It is absolutely amazing that this aircraft is still flying after 69 years! . . .there has always been talk about retiring it. We get to see them flying over our house quite frequently; ALWAYS go out to see it IF there isn't cloud cover obstructing the view.
The ones flying today are not 69 or 70 years old. The early ones are all retired. What's flying now are version Hs- all vintage 1961-1962.
keep in mind that plenty of those accidentally dropped whatever they were carrying for some reason
i wouldn't be so happy about them flying over my house
It looks like the pilot actually has to start flying the plane before it even gets off the ground.
Mark
Halley
The metal Vulture.
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Saw B-52s take off at Hill AFB in Ogden UT in the early 90s while Desert Storm was going on. The sound, the SMOKE TRAIL - this video brought it all back. It’s hard to describe it - like a beast being unleashed. Terrifying to think of the firepower this aircraft can carry and deliver. I’m still in awe.
Never get old looking at these. Been 27 years since I left the air force.
My house is just on the other side of those woods
Nice mate looks fuckin huge
yup, 44 years since i left.
One of the things I liked most about being stationed at Ellsworth AFB was the sight and sound of these magnificent aircraft...
My Dad was at Ellsworth in the 50s worked on the b 36s I was born on the base.
I used to breath the sight and sound of them intimately for 4 yrs. Many longer than I did. It was sometimes boring, sometimes intense , often painful . I don't regret it.
Nothing like a "Buff" takeoff!! I was stationed in 1969 at U-Tapao RTAFB, Thailand during the Vietnam Conflict. We had about 50 Buffs there and they were magnificent to watch!!
U T 70 -71 Bomb Nav Hard Hat. Still hear and smell them in my dreams.
Same here John I was 4258 FMS U-Tapaoin the engine shop 1969 the B52 D Model
First time in 10 years the Thumbnail turned out to be real
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No big red arrows or circles?
No cap
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@@VaySupaCharged when did that become a saying?
This magnificent air machine has enough thrust that it is possible to still rotate with a 4 degree nose-down attitude. I was an avionics tech on these gems back 1973 to 1976, stationed at Loring AFB, Maine. Memories of riding the launch truck. AMS 5 was our radio call sign. What a time that was.
We might have crossed at Loring. I arrived there 8/76 and departed 2/80. 42nd AMS as a KC-135 flight simulator tech (E5).
Wow, that plane is so heavy, that even with all that thrust, it accelerated slowly.
Taking off from my first base RAF Fairford !! Was there from ‘82 to’87. Loved it !!
Me: Think I'm going to go to sleep now.
RUclips: Here's a video of some big ass planes taking off.
Me: K. I'm in.
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These are Bombers going to be used by America against Iran very soon Jesus showed me in a dream. 7/30/19 and now it is happening!!!!!!
Think that's big? Look up a c5 galaxy
The youtube vortex.
Love them B-52,S SEE them ever day, and pray they come back safe. Iam from Barksdale and still here after serving 22 yrs
Much respect
I got to go inside a B-52 at Patrick Air Force Base in Cocoa, FL at an air show. This is a massive, amazing aircraft. One of the best planes ever built.
That was a great 'show¡☆! 🙂
IKR! I saw one at a show in Missouri. I was able to stand up while looking up into the bomb bay.
Hands down the most beautiful aircraft ever.
I was a mechanic on the B52 H in Grand Forks, ND in the mid 70s. What an awesome aircraft!
My dad worked on the B52 when I was a kid. We were stationed in Grand Forks, ND.
We were stationed at Minot in 70-72. My dad worked on their radar systems.
@@SmokieOkie918 I was Stationed at Minot for my 20 yr. career with the exception of a 1 yr. tour in Panama. I got there in 74 and left Minot in 2011 not long after the flood.
My dad worked on the simulators for these in the late 80s-early 90’s. It’s amazing how BIG everything is on this plane!
Fascinating seeing those droopy wings straighten out when they start getting lift.
See my (mostly) humorous comment.
These B52s would scare the sh*t out of us kids, when years ago they came low over the house to land at Upper Heyford Air base Oxfordshire, I miss the base, the Americans, the F1-11s, lovely times, lovely people.
Stans lad My dad was stationed there from 1951 to 1953. He has fond memories of the area.
We didn't have the '52's at our base, which was RAF Brize Norton. Of course, that was in 1963-'65. Brize was turned back over to Great Briton in '65, and we came home. We had the old B-47's then. I spent two years at Brize.
Cant comment on the B52s as the RAAF (here in Aus), never purchased them... but the F1-11s were one of the best fighter/bombers we had. Growing up near Amberley afb, I'll always remember the roar of the Pigs going over and seeing their dump and burns; i've many fond memories of them - long live the Pig.
They fly them around where I live. I hear them every day, every night. If one flys over while you're having a conversation you just stop, wait for it to pass, & pick up where you left off.
Must be a quiet town
@@Arr1able yes and no. Idk how high they are at the time, but they fly them somewhat close to the ground with the landing gear down a lot (help keep them at operational status I guess). One will literally over power every other sound while it flys over. If you're not hearing one like that, you're hearing one off in the distance, flying over someone else lol.
What a great privilege! Thank you.
Reminds me of when I lived in Merced, CA, in the mid-1960s.
Your hearing is OK so far??
In mid 1972 I finished a 1 year assignment in Vietnam flying a C-47. I was assigned to SAC as a B-52 pilot. I went to their 6 month school at Castle, AFB in California. I finished up my training flights just before Christmas 1972 and was scheduled for my final flight test on January 1, 1973. As I waited over the Christmas layoff, I sat and watched B-52's getting shot down over Hanoi. I thought: "Oh HELL. Here's another fine mess I've gotten myself into! I just survive a 1 year stint in Vietnam. NOW, I'm gonna go back over there and get shot down....in a B-52! WTF...OVER!"
My Dad was a radar navigator, celestial navigator! I used to love watching the take offs and landings 💞 Miss him so!
When I was a young boy in the "50's" my Dad would take me to Griffis AFB to watch these monsters take off and land. What an awesome site.
I was on griffis in rome NY a few years bk the place looks like crap roofs falling in etc a real shame.
60 plus years and still delivering the mail. Updated, of course, but awesome.
From Utica...watched em all the time. Still in Utica.
@@telsport lived in canjoeharie for a number of years really enjoyed the area my kids learned to ski on royal mtn
At one time, the B-52 bombers were the world's largest and most feared bomber fleet. The US built a total of 744 B-52s. It's hard to imagine, isn't it.
Yeah it’s crazy what can be done by raiding, bombing and destroying other countries. Hope you enjoy!
I go to the Royal International Air Tattoo in England nearly every year, only ever seen the B-52 flying once, and it’s still the most terrifying aircraft I’ve had the fortune to see. Those engines screaming overhead, I can understand how the people of Vietnam felt when they were around
American Terrorism right?
The B-52 formations flew so high the enemy never heard them or saw them.
legend has it if it loses all of its engines it can glide halfway around the world with those wings
Wait is that true ?
@@AzelVonAzrael i made that up but i wouldn’t be surprised if it could assuming it would start from the edge of space
@@AzelVonAzrael its not. its a joke.
Hahahahahah this really is a good fun joke lol
Dow afb in the 60s saw them daily in my back yard particularly never forget that sight
Michael Corning , must be a good sized yard!.?
@@banjopete I was trying to picture the same thing 😀😂
@@banjopete Oh how i would love one in my yardCan i can i please please awwww go on just one I promise to feed it and clean up after it I think my grandchildren would be thrilled I know i would be They are poetry of the air Jenny 😘
@@jennyperrio4887 Griffis AFB now a business park (very successful) has one sitting. I like to pet it.
@@telsport A business park thats an awful thing to do to an AFB In Guerney Channel Islands where i live An American Air Force Base would be probably bigger than the island Our Airport is small i think the largest we have had in of any military aircraft has been the Hercules when they come over to pick up duty frees and practise take offs and landings I would love to be able to look out the window and see some of the us monsters of the sky not the commercial Aircraft but the real hard working ladies of the sky Still i can dream As for the baby in the video I still want one in my back yard Thanks for your reply Jenny 💕😘
When I was about 10 years old my father took us to Homestead Air Force Base and we got to get up close and personal with a B-52. Each engine pod was as large as our 1950 Buick Roadmaster.
George Crutchfield morning
Leribangue
awesome
J3TD!
I Love America! I love our country and it's technology!! All of those B 52's are around 40 years old!! Still awesome. :-)
you look at it from the front and think "How can that get airborne"?
I think they called it when lots of B52 are ready to flight, the elephant formation.
The B-52 makes moving 500,000 lbs look so effortless.🇺🇸
With eight huge jet engines screaming at around 20,000 lbs thrust each. Indeed it does.
Watched them land at Amarillo Air Force base when I was in high school (I'm 76 now). When I was younger than that I watched B-36s making low passes over the city on their way back to San Antonio ; I'll never forget that sound.
Arousing sound?
2:33 gave me chills and goosebumps
WPAFB was the home of SAC. Having lived close to the base I still remember watching those huge wings lift up before pulling the fuselage with them. It is amazing how much they move.
When I was in ROTC we went to Louisiana Air Force Base they gave us a tour of the the B-52 Top Speed: 650mph, Wingspan:185'0" Range: 8,800 mi, introduce: February 1955, Number built: 744, Engine types: Pratt & Whitney JT3D, Pratt & Whitney J57
I used to live near Barksdale main gate. When I was a kid, in Albany, Georgia, we were in the runway approach and would have those monsters fly about 100 feet above our house on take-off or landing. And, an ORI (Operation Readiness Inspection)? B-52's and KC-135's overhead once a minute for about a half hour! Our windows would rattle and we would have to cover our ears. But, to see those giants fly was so impressive. Seen in this video, to assist with crosswind takeoffs and landings, the main landing gear can be pivoted 20 degrees to either side from neutral. Preflight/taxi checklists require this pivoting to be tested. This yaw adjustable crosswind landing gear would be preset by the crew according to wind observations made on the ground.
That many, in a row, so likev30 bombers?
We experienced the same situation at Ft. Bliss, El Paso TX back in 1959-1961. The military family housing complex was adjacent to the air strip there and when those huge B-52s would rev their engines and take off, everything would shake, rattle and roll!! We kids thought that it was so exciting, but our mother didn’t find it so fun...she was always trying to hold everything in place while the shaking was going on!
I noticed that pivoting and assumed a) that that was what it was for, and b) why they did it while taxiing pre-flight. Thanks for confirming that for me.
I can’t believe I just got assigned to fix these beasts at Barksdale! So stoked!
Good luck buddy...if you work on one that I did I'm sure there is my blood and sweat still there!!
Absolutely love the sound of those old school turbofan engines. Not something you get to experience much nowadays.
IT doesn't take off, the ground just drops way beneath it.
Meh
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Haha lol
Weighs so much the ground runs away from it
All from Barksdale. I live in line with runway 15 and see these all day long. Never gets old!
I was raised just north of Dayton Ohio. Very near Wright Patterson AFB. In the 60s Mom used to pack up a Picnic and Dad would drive us over to watch the B-52s take off and land. Amazing they’re still a capable aircraft. That was a fun activity for a couple Farm kids. The Air Force Museum there is amazing too. It’s a Crime they didn’t get a Space Shuttle. It’s a one day drive for 60% of Americans and has never charged admission.
Very impressive footage !!!
Magnificent aircraft ! 👍🏻
I've seen you everywhere in railroad videos.
And now in plane videos.
@@whyowhy4571 :)
For destruction not construction :(
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Dad flew these outta Westover and McCoy from 1958 and the 60's during Chrome Dome and in VN outta Guam and later Utapou. Music to my ears always. RIP Dad and High Flight!
When i was a kid i got to watch them take off several times my Dad was stationed at Bergstrom. Air Force SAC Air Command outside Austin in the early 60's always a kick in tbe pants watching these big birds fly
We used to sit at the end of a runway, at the Wurtsmith SAC base. Never so happy to go deaf.
I find it amazing how most of these were built in the 50s and are still in service.
and they're the most lethal bombers in the world still, they're just that effective...if you're the enemy and that big ole girls' over-head, you're so done hehe
The H models were built in the early 60’s and are the only ones still in service.
They are fossil's
@@marksmith2714 they've been modified with the latest technology, 'resto-modded' in effect...if they're such fossils, they sure get the job done like the 'modern' bombers
waifu breaks trust me they rebuilt the entire system over again.
I am a GA pilot, but I am blown away by the sight and sound of the B-52 Stratofortress! It is interesting that with a 185' wingspan, it needs those small wheels at the ends of the wings! Beautiful bird! And to hear one for real, can rumble your whole body inside. Amazing aircraft. We're very proud of our aircraft and all who fly them up into the wild blue yonder. Be safe, and may the Force be with you!
Wing wheels r 4 when it's fully maxed loaded
Can’t believe the wings don’t break off with all the weight on them. Amazing.
Saw a cold war version of a B52 while at Hickam AFB in Hawaii & believe me you haven't seen anything like it when it taxied & attained a speed over 100 miles an hour before take off simply awesome.
Barksdale used runway on occasion that brought them over my house really low. It was almost deafening..... I loved it!!! The sound of freedom..... And eight smoking engines.
Freedom to ship arms, conquer oil and opium fields, and kill anyone Israel demands.
When they taxie and take off in mass formation, along with KC 135 tankers, it’s called an “Elephant Walk”
Norman wilkinson That’s what we say at work when our boss walks down the hall. 😂
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Norman wilkinson yo thats dope
A person doesn't wonder what this awesome machine does, one already knows what it is used for just by its meanesing look, incredible that father and sons have flown this remarkable machine, thank you for your service, God bless..
Our house was in the flight path of KAFB in Michigans UP. When an alert went off 13 or 14 of these big B52s would roar over the house at 3:00 am. They rattled the house so much my Mom couldn’t keep a Knick-knack on a shelf. It’s a sound you never forget even though it was 60 years ago
Almost like like seeing a strip mall accelerate to 180 mph and fly away.
Holy shit. Talk about a new perspective
It’s so big even the wings have a wheels 😂
Without the outriggers the wing tips would touch ground.
Fuel cells in wings plus wings can carry rail mounted ACLM's
My dad was a crew chief on these as his SAC, Castle AFB was the first to get them on June 29, 1955 while he was stationed there. Pretty awesome and very loud.
B-52: flies over Vietnam in the 60s and early 70s
Vietnamese ppl with our anti-aircraft weapons: look, here comes more metal to make tools and furniture
it is hard to believe, how this aircraft takes off into the air, such a monster !!!!
Co za moc silnika i siła. Pozdrowienia z Polski chłopaki!
Greetings from New York😀Hi guys Polish people in upstate New York are very well respected as hard-working individual great neighbors love to play softball and maybe drink a few beers and we know Poland well allways have our back and we will always have yours!May god bless the people of 🇵🇱 Poland
Heard this sound all my life. I'm from Bossier City Louisiana home of Barksdale AFB. Bossier Proud of Barksdale.
Chills. Saw one at an airship several years back; awe inspiring, couldn’t take my eyes off of it.
Looks like it would be a real handful in a crosswind. The word "iconic" is over-used these days but if one aircraft could be said to be iconic for representing air power during the decades-long Cold War, it's the B-52.. What an aeroplane! One of Boeing's finest products.
@@FishbedFive yeah both of those planes are retired, and Stratofortress is just that good
Actually. the B52 has the ability to crab in a crosswind landing while keeping it's landing gear straight. A nice feature.
@@bearcat0551 The gears swivel because it almost always crabs.
It is amazing to contemplate that 4-5 generations of aviators have commanded these beautiful warbirds across the globe for 70 or so years. I am not a pilot, but it appears that the B-52 rotates off the ground into a very gradual climb from a long take off roll. I am guessing (again non-pilot!) that it would need quite a bit of airspeed and altitude before any sort of aggressive flying was attempted. I recall reading that early jet designs were very slow and vulnerable on the take off roll and the landing approaches.
When they land, the pilot aims the landing gear. The plane ✈️ can be not pointing straight down the runway as they are so big.
@@leonardbonander7582 In a strong cross wind, the pilot has to land the plane looking out a side window at the runway!!! WEIRD!
These bad boys used to fly out of a base near Marquette, MI. I was often in meetings in the local hospital when they would fly out over lake Superior and make turns. The whole hospital would shake! impressive.
That would have been K.I.Sawyer A.F.B.
Simply "AWESOME" when watching these B-52 Statofortress marvels from Boeing Corporation. Truly shows America's MIGHT and POWER when looking at these bad boys, even when there resting on the tarmac.
Man, this thing is more like a giant bird than a man-made construction. Even the way it wobbles from one side to the next is like it’s saying “I’m not meant to be on the ground, dammit! You gave me wings now let me flyyyyyyy!”
It was not "wobbling" around, the crew was just checking the crosswind crab limits of the landing gear, which turns up to 20 degrees off-center in either direction. This enables a fully loaded B-52 to take off into as much as a 50 knot direct crosswind while still staying in the middle of the runway. Probably the best bargain the USAF ever purchased. I flew over 4000 hours in the D-model, which was built in 1955-56 and cost around a paltry 8.5 million to build. Also one of the sturdiest, most forgiving airframes of all time.
@@DerekDtj epic response!
I grew up near Castle Air Force Base. The 93rd Bombardment Wing trained pilots for a long time. As teenagers we used to go sit outside the fence, near the runway and watch these huge beasts come in to land. They were so huge and seemed to be flying so slowly that it was amazing that they could stay in the air. We were so close that the pilots would often give us a little salute as they went overhead. We lived in the flight path and everyone in my neighborhood knew that if you were on the phone with someone when one of these guys were flying overhead you had to tell them, "Hang on a minute; Plane." Good times.
My dad was stationed at Castle AFB we could watch them take off from our backyard.
@@andrewbarkemeyer8610 I appreciate his, and your family's service!
During the middle '60's B-52's were lined up along the runway at Bergstrum AFB along US-290 near Austin.
I live in Austin and I remember that as well and also the f4 phantom jet's. Those were the days!
Growing up in So Dak I got to see a lot of these in the 70s and 80s. My dad was retired Army so got most of his VA medical stuff done at Elsworth AFB.
One memory I have is we were leaving the base after he had his teeth checked out in prep for dentures. As we are waiting in line at the Main Gate, which in those days was just down range of the end of the main runway, suddenly the gate closed. Immediately after every single BUFF(Big Ugly Fat F'er) on the base took off. Right over our heads. That is a lot of rumbling. Twelve to twenty B52s. Didn't find out till we got home that the SAC computer glitched and said we had incoming ICBMs from Russia. We didn't but it was enough to sortie the entire flight.
Second memory was from Jr High band practice. The band room was on a second floor with big 70s style windows that over looked the Missouri river valley. This was at Chamberlain, SD. Suddenly every window started rattling. Looking towards the river we all saw a B52 clearing the superstructure of the bridges by 30 to 50 yards. This was when some "genius" thought it would be a good idea to take a high altitude bomber and have the flight crews start training for a low level penetrator roll that the B52 was never designed for. It was extremely impressive watching it bellow the cloud of black smoke out of it's 8 Pratt and Whitney's as it rumbled down the river valley.
Given the missile threat over Russia, the USAF determined it would have "better luck" going into Russia, "low level", than trying to penetrate at the altitudes it was originally designed to strike at. And the B-52 had no problem doing that!
On January 7, 1971 I was an 18 year old kid riding in an apple truck driving from Boyne City Michigan back to Petoskey Michigan. It was just getting dark and as we were driving the sky lit up in biggest fireball I had ever seen. Then we heard the explosion which scared our driver even more because he was older and knew about the Big Rock Nuclear plant (NOW CLOSED) that was also on the edge of lake Michigan and from where we were and the explosion the plant was between us. We didn't know what it was till we arrived in Petoskey and finally heard it on the Radio. It was a B-52C Stratofortress Registration number 54-266 with 9 crew on board that crashed into lake Michigan on a training mission and blew up. All crew died and were never recovered. The salvaged parts were recovered in 225 feet of water by a company from Florida. If you visit this area there is an memorial along the highway just east of Charlevoix (Pronounced CHAR LA VOY) Michigan. It is a day I will never forget.
I had just turned 18 myself in December of 1971. That B-52 I'm guessing took off from (closed now) Wurtsmith AFB in Oscoda, Mi, bound for North Dakota. The B-52's would routinely practice air refueling runs from that base westward to about Minot AFB and turn around (without landing) and return to base.That being the case, those refueling runs would have routinely been flying over the vicinity of Petosky as that city is directly aligned below the sortie's path. I was stationed there (Wurtsmith AFB) for a few years from May of 71 to early part of 75. I knew every squadron staff officer and crew member in the tanker squadron there. The whole time I was there I never once heard about that crash from anyone...just weird.
@@robertallen6710 Just Google B52 crash over lake michigan
It has been over half a century since I worked on B-52s while in the USAF - still like 'em.
My dad did to awesome 😁
Hooah, Sir. Thank you for your service.
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Does it still the same birds? I suppose it was modernized deeply. I mean modern computers, glass cockpit and so on.
Ditto same here, Castle AFB, Ca. Watching them shot touch and goes is more amazing.
Have a brother that eas an electronics tech on the BUFF during the Vietnam War. These are awesome airframes.
Even watching this in my phone makes my ear shivering. Can't imagine if i meet this face to face
Very nice. I grew up next to Tinker AFB and used to go to sleep to the sound of their engines static testing. Nice to hear them again.
Amazing to see them working the stick as the aircraft gains speed even before taking off
Was on Mass Pike, 1972 one took off from Westfield Mass and it seemed like it was 3 feet above my car, so loud, so unexpected, so memorable, so proud to see my tax dollars preserved!
went to umass in the early 70's. used to see lots of them flying over en route to westover. my uncle was a navigator on b-52's and when i was about 10 or 11, 1960 or so, he got us into one. sat in the pilots seat.
2:34 - holy hell that smoke cloud
The B-52s in this video were H models, the last model of B-52 produced and the only model to get the (at the time) new, much cleaner and quieter TF33 low bypass fan engines. The earlier A - G models all got water injected J57 turbojets. They were much smokier and louder than the TF33's on the H models.
The mark of an old school Boeing!!!!
Project lead: how large should the wingspan be ?
Engineers: YES
Lived in Chicopee MA during the 60's which was home to the SAC airbase at Westover. At the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis we would be woken in the middle of the night as the B-52's were scrambled. It felt like the windows were all going to break and the house would fall down as they took off, we were scared the world was coming to an end. I think the racket was even worse when the KC-135's followed loaded with fuel!
I was there in Nov 1962 an you are exactly rite. Larry Jackson.
Paul Phaneuf as a c 5 chief engineer and pilot I over hear that a lot. I need 8,000 feet to get off the ground when hauling two m1a1 tankS Thanks for watching and ur service. CAPTAIN AND SHIFT COMMANDER LABONTE AIR MOBILITY COMMAND PATRIOT WING.
What a beautiful sight. God bless all those on board.
Don't like war(machines), a bomb dropped by these things kills everyone, child ,women, men, soldiers, citizens, that's why I hate these bloody things. Nothing beautiful, just total MAYHEM....
@@erwinstada1811 nah, they're beautiful for sure
Wings are so goddamn big, even they need wheels
Born in Loring AFB this was my sound machine hearing the beautiful howl of these guys taking off.
I was stationed at Loring from '76 to '80. My wife and I have fond memories and made great friends at Loring.
How cool is it that grandkids are working on and flying a plane their grandparents worked on and flew.
Seen a bumper sticker at Wright Pat that said "Peace thru Superior Firepower." All I can say to that is PRAISE GOD. and Thank You.