Inside Most Feared US Air Force Bomber Flying at Extreme Altitudes

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Published 2023-06-21
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All Comments (21)
  • @frankmccann29
    You Airmen are sharp. The aircraft look great! Y'all make me proud to have been part of it all. God bless you all and keep you. Take care.
  • @GeraldMcveigh
    Pretty awesome to see !!!! Thanks to all of Service members who protect our families and friends ❤
  • @johnevans388
    Very old Air Force joke, 'When the B-1 is retired the crew delivering the last aircraft to the boneyard will be flown home on a B-52.'
  • @ghita1564
    Wow! Such a majestic aircraft! Thanks to all military officers for your service. You're the best! ❤
  • @tonyjones7731
    Some years back we were on vacation from the UK and driving up Interstate 49. Two B52s flew low over the Interstate on their way into Barksdale. To be honest I didn’t even know if they were still in service. What an awesome sight!
  • Awesome photography ..... TDA just gets better and better each time I stop by! :)
  • This is still one of the Baddest Beasts in the American Air Force Fleet, and each time they do an upgrade it just gets better! The most feared Bomber in the World!
  • @Quanuck
    I love this stuff! I was a Ground Radio tech before I became the DP NCOIC in a RI ANG Tac Control Sq. I was lucky to meet a Buff "driver" on a flight home from Dallas visiting my son and his wife. God bless you all, God bless the USA!
  • @Zhukov-3
    I remember the B-52's as kid in Arkansas watching them flying over during the Vietnam war in late 1960's. They were stationed at Blytheville, Arkansas then and very loud and proud.
  • @dennispetty4405
    Still one heavy bad mutha indeed!.. I was assigned to the B52 right out of tech school in 1986 at Castle AFB California. When that base closed in 94 I was sent to Barksdale AFB Louisiana until I retired in 2006.. I was a Crew Chief..or Crew Dawg as we called one another..was on flight status along with the aircrew who flew them.. Tons of flying hours in this old dog..loved it!.. Constantly deployed though..every yr since we kicked off the gulf war until I retired...great memories and experience with my fellow crew dawgs... Was part of the 93rd OMS..then the 11th yellow tails SQDRN at Barksdale..then onto the 96th Red tails SQDRN and finally onto the 20th Blue tails SQDRN where I retired with them. I literally flew and worked on all of these aircraft seen in this video.. Pretty awesome career..ill never forget these old days and times..
  • @gpabui5256
    Wow, the v-22 survived. That is so amazing 👍👍. Thank you for this spectacular video ❤
  • @Nighthawke70
    2:10 those are Coffman starter cartridges going off to spin up the turbines. They use those regularly on alert pad aircraft that are not equipped with air start motors. This system will evolve into air start motors exclusively with the re-engingeing the B-52 with Rolls-Royce F130's. Oh, and the refitted and overhauled B-52's will be called B-52J.
  • @johnevans1969
    Many thanks to ALL who are serving Freedom at this time in History. We appreciate your sacrifices and pray for you and yours. the Evans Family Idaho
  • @JohnTLyon
    As a military dependent at Zaragosa Air Base, Spain, I watched and listened to hundreds of F-16's takeoff/landing drills. I'm here to tell ya, they are LOUD!😮
  • My grandfather was a pilot in the US Army Air Corps and then switch to the US Air Force, when it was established but one of the planes he was a pilot for was the B-52.
  • @byronhunt5756
    I'm a former SAC SP from Carswell AFB, TX. Spent 4 years with the B 52D. Beautiful old aircraft!
  • When I was a kid my step dad was in the AF and we were stationed at Barksdale AFB. We lived in Bossier city in the runway flight path. Red Alerts filled the sky with black smoke! It was awesome!
  • @ptarrow6817
    B-52s used to fly right over my apartment in Fort Worth, TX when Carswell was a USAFB. This brings back memories.
  • @davidca96
    It had to have been the most amazing yet terrifying thing to be near a B-52 strike in Vietnam. The amount of ordinance they could drop one after the other, so high up you dont know its coming, was just insane. Guys would get lifted off the ground, said the ground felt like jello.
  • @joerg-om1ur
    I am very proud to life in this Country and the Military it is amazing the Best of the World