#HarrisWalz24

No son navegantes. Son brujos!!!!

Don’t forget the folks at MCCLELLAN who maintained those birds for you! Loved that job!

I'm the guy who used to repair the sextants on Buffs and tankers. I was on the SAC Bomb-Comp teams at several bases. I'd calibrate the sextants to the individual competing crewmembers' eyes. Unlike most sextant maintainers, I could go inside and tweak the guts for best accuracy.

After serving my 1 year tour flying with the 535th TAS in Vietnam, (1968-1969) I was assigned to SAC and flew the KC-135A out of Barksdale AFB 2nd Bomb Wing until I got out in 1972. Great memories of flying the aircraft with TDYs to Spain and England. I continued to fly professionally until I turned 70 in 2014. This was a good video of what those MITOs were like. It brought back my recollection of my Air Force experience and the Cold War as I knew it.

Brewing A-model coffee takeoff!!!

I will miss you.

Every individual should have the experience of connecting with such an amazing human. Thank you for your friendship. Forever in my heart.

Every individual should have the experience of connecting with such an amazing human. Thank you for your friendship. Forever in my heart.

Fly Away Captain Burleson, Fly Away! RIP! 5/20/24

Thank you, Capt. for your service and R.I.P

Burl passed away yesterday. My condolences to his family.

❤❤❤ We ALL have a mission (or five) like that in our memories. Excellent crew coordination AND speaking up saves lives.

Captain Burleson was cleared for heavenly departure on 5/20/24. RIP!

Outstanding!❤

I Love this Anthony❤

Burl, do you remember what the call-signs were when we were at Wurtsmith?...... was it COHO for the 52's and HURON for the 135's?

So severely under-powered that it seems almost unbelievable.

So the idea is that you guys get away before an inbound strike? That makes sense, but what about all the people that get left behind? Do they scatter as well once you guys are out of there?

I was in 8th grade when this video was posted. That was 12 years ago to the exact day lol

This is Kadena

Love from Türkiye.. a wunderfull starting

How is the unit holding up now 😊

Compro 900.000.000 unidades para a força aéria brasileira

I like more the KC135E better engines

When I was in SAC at a KC-135 base. We were not allowed to have cameras on the flight line. To see the video inside of the cockpit. Weird has security changed?

lol i was a boom operator, i always wondered what that hole was for

I worked on the A's and the Q's.

I feel it like it was yesterday. I love water injections

Thank you again Nate for the sights and sounds of my old friend the KC-135

What memories! I was there in UPT '82-'83.

Regardless of the utility, it sure was fun!

bring back SAC! the combined threats from a united russia- china alliance against us has NEVER been greater!! super energized China on a war path!!

A 135A takeoff from Wake. I’ll bet that was a thrill.

Mx officer on A/Qs and pilot of R/Ts - that takeoff roll…soooo long and with water that was unreliable…. 😳

When pilots burned water! Flew the A model for about a year and a half. I don’t really missed that experience but it allowed me to really appreciate the R model (the F-135R😅). In thrust we trust!

I didn't recognize it as Kadena! I was stationed there with our Navy P-3 squadron.

I was a happy passenger on a Saturn Airlines charter flight on the way to Viet Nam when we made a refueling stop on Wake. I remember that cannon. That was 1968. That was in a Boeing 707. That plane landed at Bien Hoa and never shut down the engines. We got off it was reloaded and on the way out with guys headed home before we cleared the perimeter fence.

No one kicks ass without tanker gas. Thanks for the videos. Would flights have been EMCON under wartime conditions?

Tell us where the surfing is!

My dad was an aircraft commander in 1957 on KC-135A, before that he flew B-29, KC-29, and KC-97. He said he passed a lot of gas…lol! Sure miss him.

Wow, brings back memories! Flew out of Kadena many times in KC135q’s. Never had to do a MITO there, but we were normally two ship one minute spacing. At the school house at Castle, it was fun to train students in the a model at 12 second spacing and the r model at 15 second spacing. It was important training to ensure we could get our tankers off the ground in minimum time. I miss those days. Watching a squadron of planes takeoff during an ORI was to say the least impressive.

Look at that, the navigator has some sort of a digital clock clipped to the hood of the radar and NO watch. That's cringe worthy for some of us older navs.

All over the world on Steam Jets 1973/88 ! Loved it !

Been there, done that, class 71-07

Looks like Sugar parking at Guam! And the pilots hair Oh my goodness! and 169 VROT😱

Wow this is super old school! Nav and an INS!!!

Ahhh the steam guages and nomex!! classic Air Force!

What year was this. I was at Fairchild 85-89

Very cool!