Most of them are the D model, you can tell by the taller but narrower horizontal stabilizer, on the G/H models the stabilizer are shorter but wider

B52 fully loaded aborted take off. Wheels caught fire applying brakes. Crew ggt out but a helicopter hovering above got blown out of sky with explosion, that crew was lost. Some bomb were found near the BX. You could feel the air sucking in to the explosion.

B-52D #55-0676, aborted take off on 19 July, 1969 during heavy rainstorm, supposed to have failed water injection on engine pod. Was on salvage team from Fire Control shop the next day. Tail section was still mostly intact and was able to recover several black boxes. Explosion felt several km away.

@@thomasstone9570 Thank you I was a crew chief on KC 135 the explosion rocked the whole base. Thank you all for getting me those details.

@@vicblack39 Thank you for the details, I really appreciate it.

I was on the flightline that day when a BUFF landed with a fire on board and crashed off the runway. A rescue helicopter was flying over the B-52 when it exploded. The helicopter was knocked out of the sky and crashed. It was very spooky!

I was at CCK when a SR-71 Blackbird landed with mechanical problems.

Thats great, in Australia buying a carton for your workmates after screwing up is a standard practise, especially in mining :):):)

I WAS THERE FOF THE MAYAGUEZ UTAPAO 74-75

Utapao 73-74 635 MMS Line Delivery best job i ever had

I was at UT Aug 68/Aug 69 I was 4258 oms Tanker launch truck. I was towing a Tanker when that B-52 blew up . I understand there was a sachel charge put in the nose wheel compartment when the arcft. was waiting to take off till the heavy rain moved out.

Was he on the chopper that was blown out of the air when the B-52 blew up at the end of the runway in July 69? If so, I saw it happen. We were at Base Ops waiting for a C-130 to take us to Bangkok to catch our flight home. We were watching the B-52s launch for a mission when one popped his drag chute while making his take off run. He taxied to the north end of the runway while the fire trucks rolled out and headed to where he was. We could see smoke coming from the plane and in a few minutes the fire trucks were pulling back away from him since he was loaded with bombs and fuel and it appeared the fire was getting out of control. It wasn’t long before the B-52 blew up sending parts flying and shutting down the runway. I wasn’t focused on the chopper as much as I was the bomber, although I didn’t see it blown out of the air, I just noticed it wasn’t there afterwards so didn’t find out what happened until later. The runway was shut down so the C-130 wasn’t going to be picking us up that day. We were giving the option of waiting until the next day or getting Thai taxies to drive us to Bangkok so being so ready to get back home, we chose the latter. It was later that I learned that, first off the B-52 had a brake on a wheel that didn’t release while making the take off, causing a fire. The crew on the B-52 all got out however there was a crew member unaccounted for so the the chopper was trying to spot him when the plane did explode causing the chopper crew to be killed.