B-52 Bomber | Behind the Wings

As the undeniable icon of Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum, the timeless B-52 Bomber holds a special place for many who served in our armed forces or are connected to military history. Watch as curator Matthew Burchette explores the aircraft's lone gun position, uncovers the chaff dispenser and winds his way through one of the oldest B-52 Stratofortresses on display, anywhere!
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Host, Curator:
Matthew Burchette
Creator, Producer:
Ben Theune
Camera, Editor:
Scott Hennelly
Music:
Joakim Karud - / joakimkarud
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[@AirborneRenegade]

Service life of the B-52 was extended again, it's going to serve beyond 2050.

[@AlittleIron]

As long as they keep upgrading and advancing its tech it should serve us well.

[@Tonius126]

They should be breaking down soon, no ammount of upgrades would replace that degrading chassis.

[@AirborneRenegade]

@@Tonius126 there is a such thing as aircraft maintanance and aircraft modification. For example: I fly a Cessna 172, it's a newer model, but most of the Cessnas that I've been around are more than 40 years old.

[@nostradamusofgames5508]

@@AlittleIron saves us a lot of money.

[@AlittleIron]

@@nostradamusofgames5508 being 21 over 21 trillion in debt that's a smart decision. Being the B2 2 billion an aircraft

[@cluelessbeekeeping1322]

The lighting for this really cool opportunity could not have been worse.

[@MCF2233]

*wearing suit to keep the pidgeon poop off* *takes off hood and wipes hair with pidgeon poopy hand*

[@TheGr8Dantini]

I have many fond memories of climbing into my B-52 at the National Atomic Museum in Albuquerque. My brother and I had found a way to access the aircraft through the front wheel well when she was still on Kirtland AFB. She was our toy as we were the only ones that I knew of that knew how to get onboard the aircraft. We would "fly" that baby for hours, eat lunch in it and just hang out. Being the aircraft lovers that we were and still are we treated her with much respect and never left a trace of our visits. She's still here, newly refurbished and is the only B-52B ever to be designed and built specifically for the nuclear bomb tests in the Pacific. She was delivered straight from Boeing and is the only B-52 ever to drop live nuclear weapons. Oh the memories. We're going to have to see your B-52 this spring. Nice video.

[@FreeRangeLemon]

Awesome

[@huntclanhunt9697]

That was literally my dream as a kid lol.

[@utubetommy]

I worked in an MC ammo dump in Okinawa mid '67 to March '68.. We were based at Camp Hague, which was about 3 miles off the end of the main runway. We saw both the B-52's taking off for 'Nam as well as the KC-135 refueling tankers. Usually about 25-26 of either of them took off at a time. When they were taking off, they flew directly over our heads. I swear they weren't more than a couple hundred feet above the ground. We used to joke that they were so low, we could read the Fruit of the Loom labels off the pilot's Tee-shirts. At any rate, the B-52 was and still is an awesome plane. Kudos to the designers and engineers at Boeing who used slide rules to design the plane and the workers who put it together. They built a great plane that will never be forgotten.

[@garym8348]

You missed everything in between the bomb bay and the cockpit. Radar, nav, bombardier, bunk area, etc.

[@mikehillsgrove1612]

There is NO bunk area. None. You just lay on the frigging floor. The potty is behind the pilot (a bucket named the honey bucket), and the urinal behind the Radar Nav downstairs. I was a Navigator on these things. They are NOT comfortable. The aircraft you saw was a B-52G model.

[@bradenwoods1111]

Right that's why I watched, what a waste of time

[@destry5250]

It was damaged in the fire . . .

[@miller7759]

@@mikehillsgrove1612Wrong.... Yes they did have small bunks in the BUFF. Back in the cold war era S.A.C crews would fly 40 to 50 hour flights. They had a relief crew onboard. I toured a H model that had a small...very small berthing area with a small toilet as well. Not sure if they do still have small bunks or not.....but back then they did with 2 crews on board in flight refuelling.

[@mikehillsgrove1612]

@@miller7759 I flew in the cold war era, post chrome dome. Just where do you think they would put a bunk?. Yes, they sometimes would fly an extra pilot. The EW and gunner required no relief and the navs seldom had an extra. There isn't that much room. Behind the pilots you had air refueling valve and behind that the hatch downstairs. We had a floor. some boxes with maps in em and if you need to rest you use them.

[@annemadison7258]

I have seen a B-52D built in 1956, it first flew in 1957 with the 28th Bomb Wing. The plane is on display at IWM Duxford.

[@thetourettesgamer8851]

Me too dude the American display at duxford is fantastic isn’t it

[@jocaleb0236]

I’ve had one of these fly over me and my god they’re huge RIP Loring AFB at Limestone, Maine You were what held this community together

[@jocaleb0236]

Maybe it was an previous plane

[@bassmith448bassist5]

Fantastic!!!!!! Never could find any interior shots of this plane!!!!!! Thanks for the tour!!!!!!!

[@michaelquillen2679]

Fell in love with the B-52 as a kid. Used to go to open house days at old Glasgow AFB in the '60's. While others were clamoring around the F-101 Voodoo's, I was wanting my looks at the B-52D's. Had not been inside a B-52 since then, until just a few weeks ago, I was at the Pima Air and Space Museum and was able to stick my head into the tail gunner section of a B-52D. The smell was just as I remembered from back in the 60's...crazy!

[@ConversationStartersVideo]

Outstanding! Best of the series. AWESOME photography and post production. Talent ain’t bad either!

[@JasonLihani]

These videos are incredibly professional. Can't wait to visit on Sunday!

[@jonokiller]

how does this channel not have more followers?! great fun reasonably timed videos

[@capablanca5611]

You make a fun trip around the plane, thank you, keep on doing a fun job.

[@senor0697]

Amazing work

[@brandonketcham8271]

Every time I’ve been here I’ve always wanted to go inside. Very cool to see👍

[@turbowolf302]

My late Uncle's bird back in the mid-to-late 70s was tail number 1016. Glad to see the inside of one, finally.

[@seiya2352]

best tour !!!! thanks !

[@rudedog302]

Thanks for the tour. So that plane is actually the fifth B-52 built. There were only 3 B-52A models, of the proposed 13 that were to be built. The remaining A's were built as RB-52's and re-designated as B-52B/RB-52B. The first 17 B-52B's built were RB-52B's. They were capable of having a capsule installed in the bomb bay the housed the crew for the recon. mission. What has always struck me as odd is the early B-52's had serial numbers designating the year they were serialized 52, 53, but the first B model to fly didn't fly until January of 1955. The 35 B-52C models built, actually the last 10 B-52B's were re-designated as B-52C's, then they added 25 more to the contract. The only difference between the B and C models is the C's were all capable of conventional bombing, and caring the reconnaissance pod. The C's also had 3,000 gallon tip tanks to extend range. I worked on G models, and H models in the early 80's, as a jet engine troop, and I loved every minute of working on the BUFF. Loud, smoky, and water injection on the G models was great fun.

[@Idahoguy10157]

The serial number reflects the year an aircraft is ordered. Rather than when it’s flown and delivered

[@TJRohyans]

I was a B52H Crew Chief at Min(dr)ot AFB, ND from 9/89-4/93 when I went to the B2A at Whiteman AFB, MO. The BUFF will always hold a special place in my heart. The "H" was quite different from the older models, and yet there were many things that remained the same. I actually got the chance to crawl around in NASA's Mothership "B" model before it was retired out at Edwards AFB, CA. That was a cool experience.

[@rudedog302]

@@TJRohyans I cut my teeth on jet engines on the Buff. We had H's at El Forko Grande (Grand Forks) when I got there, then got G's that were ALCM capable. I worked in shop overhauling TF-33's and some J-57's on the 135 A's, then worked on the line for the rest of my time in the USAF. The Buff was such a cool airplane to an freshly minted 18 year old jet troop, and the airplane also holds a special place in my heart. I watched a video of them cutting up some G models down in the bone yard, and watched them cutting 2580, which I worked on.....Broke my heart. I have been in a D model but would like to see the inside of the Mothership B2A must have been quite interesting after the Buff, not to mention the change in locals. Going from that flat, barren, wind blown ice desert of despair and drunkenness that is North Dakota, to a desert of a different type, talk about a 180. Must have been interesting.

[@TJRohyans]

@@rudedog302 - At the time I got to crawl on the NASA B model, I was already with the B2 program and was out at Edwards TDY to the B2 CTF and the N-G Plant at Palmdale. I was never stationed out there. I was very happy to get out of Minot, but also glad I wasn't stationed in CA. I don't care at all for the desert southwest. A few years later I was cross-training as a Helicopter Flight Engineer and was station in Albuquerque, NM. Did not care for it one bit. I now live in Mobile, AL. Hot, humid and green!

[@KutWrite]

Was that capsule for para-dropping the recons in-country?

[@braddywarbucks]

Great job

[@jimhunter4999]

My father was an ECM operator (now EWO) on this plane at Castle Air Force Base in 1955 when it was delivered to the Air Force.

[@the_mobius_strip3906]

Love coming to the comments to read about you guys that served on/around these aircraft. Really makes my day.

[@the_mobius_strip3906]

@Cliff Yablonski Nice, I didn't know the 52's had EW equipment actually?

[@the_mobius_strip3906]

@Cliff Yablonski what EW equipment was onboard? I'm lookin at being an EWO on the P-8's in the RAAF

[@the_mobius_strip3906]

@Cliff Yablonski sorry mate. Just passionate about the tech. Didn't mean to be annoying or anything

[@the_mobius_strip3906]

@Cliff Yablonski Damn, crazy to imagine this was all in the 70s/80s. Wish I knew what they had nowadays. Massive respect for you guys operation these things.

[@the_mobius_strip3906]

@Cliff Yablonski Not gonna lie, I love the ingenuity of air force technology in the 80s.

[@NigelsModellingBench]

Great film. Thanks!!

[@msmeyersmd8]

The B-36 had 4 bomb bays and also had a really long pressurized tunnel between the rear compartments and the cockpit area.

[@rogerhoward7104]

I love this site. I remember when I couldn't get enough of aviation. I was in Civil AIR Patrol for 9 years and learned a ton of Aviation material. I sense the love in this guy, and enjoy remembering when I to was maxed totally to about the United States Air Force.

[@SandraStevenshlpmehlpu2014]

I was in the civil air patrol or started out to be as a teenager while my father was in the Airforce. I actually have been inside one of these things during one of the yearly events where the A.F.B. would let family members come out and see the planes and actually get a tour of the inside. Just amazing some of these beasts. I can't remember if we did this At Kincheloe A.F.B. or Grand Forks A.F.B. that did this every year but Grand Forks for sure.

[@troy9477]

Long live the BUFF! My favorite plane of all time. It just keeps on serving. My last year of high school (89-90), we had a physics teacher who had flown them in Vietnam, from both Guam and Diego Garcia (assumedly the D model). He talked about it a little. He said obce whike taking off, the plane in front of him had its wings snap off right after takeoff, and everyone died in the explosion. They used to load them pretty heavy. He said it was like a video game- they used radar assisted bombing, and you could see the little dots of the bombs on the radarscope falling to earth. Only later did he realize the devastation on the ground.

[@route66flyer29]

I worked on B52s (PE shop) for four years, 2 years on Guam being on the flight line on the first night (June 17, 1965) they left for Nam and 95% of the launches thereafter. Midway through the launch I got a call that the tail gunner had popped his chute, so I found the plane, climbed aboard and made my way to the tail gunner position dragging a new chute. By the time we got the chute exchanged, he said they were ready for takeoff, I didn't have time to get back up front so I'd have to drop out of the rear wheel well. By the time I got the chute back to the wheel well the plane had started rolling for takeoff so I tossed out the chute, grabbed the edge of the opening and swung with all my might and bearly missed getting run over with those huge tires. *Dance the Skies*

[@biggiefitz6275]

Awesome plane! So cool in fact you can line up the runway for landing while looking thru the side windows, literally. Then theres the Crab Walk.......

[@mikepie6988]

Dude u do a really great job with your videos there great lol

[@sulufest]

Wow, I didn’t realize that you could go all the way through! I just thought that crew access pretty much stopped right behind the cockpit and tail gunner position. 😎👍

[@stephenmonken1337]

I worked on both G and D models. The older planes, like the D, had a hatch in the cockpit and in the rear. There was a crawlspace thru the plane where you could go the length. It had to be done with below 10,000 since the area was not pressurized. The hardest part was over the horizontal stabilizer with it's adjustment mechanism. Also, over the fore and aft landing gear was fun because it was cramp and full of hot gear. The forward avionics bay was small and hot. And the rear gunner's seat folded down so he could climb in and place his feet into the seating position and pull the seat back up and then pressurize the rear cabin. On the G model the tail gunner sat up front and used a rear looking camera and radar to remotely control the gun. He never had to go into the craw space to get to his gun. Did hear a story once about a B-52 taking off from March AFB in California. The plane had been told to level off after takeoff and pulled back power on the engines. The tail gunner tried to call the cockpit to ask what was going on but didn't get any response, and fearing they had left the aircraft punched the canopy off and rolled out. He landed in a field and was pickup by the farmer who took him back to his base. When the flight landed they were met by their gunner.

[@dlb4299]

Been there, done that. When I was in the USAF I worked on B-52's for 6 to 8 months. Can't tell you how many times I had to climb up the wheel well, along that ledge on the inside of the well and through that door into the rear end of the plane. I had to do this while carrying a 30 pound radio for replacement in the rear radio rack.

[@hemihead001]

Love the Buff !

[@victormanuelpolanco922]

Awesome!!!!.

[@slowerthinker]

You barely scratched the surface. I got to see more of the insides of a B52 watching "Dr Strangelove".

[@robertherold3799]

OUTSTANDING VISIT..THANKS

[@MCF2233]

I just found my B-52 tail turret ammunition counter i got from my dad. He got it when he was a teenager when my great uncle took him on a tour of Lowry Air Force Base while he was there inspecting the base. I would not be surprised if it had been installed in the B-52 in this video at some point.

[@chasekrueger5387]

A guy really would try to set that plane on fire. Who would do that?!

[@jrftworth]

A commie liberal

[@User-nu6km]

a true patriot

[@humbleone6405]

A rage filled tRump,pimple faced, video game playing,teenage, Russian loving Maga moron. Bet they will respond to this with a hate filled response. lol

[@StormLaker]

@@humbleone6405 well aren't you just a ray of sunshine!

[@KutWrite]

@@StormLaker: He was hoping for lots of responses. I'm glad he got none.

[@legionvoyd]

Man the old b52s are amazing

[@eyebicycle6726]

you're pretty cool dude....thank you

[@lelam4835]

From Việt Nam 🇻🇳with love

[@MarcG7424]

B52 is the best money ever spent in terms of longevity.

[@MrSvenovitch]

nope, condoms and the pill are. ppl who don't exist don't have to worry about anything you see

[@MarcG7424]

Oookay - Bull Shannon Night Court

[@ScoutPL]

Cool. I was going to be a tail gunner on a B-52, but the AF told me I had to wait 18 months for that school. This was early 80's and economy was horrible. I went to the Army recruiter, and was in that next week.

[@lonememe]

Holy crap, Matthew has the same Sportiva trail runners that I do, and nerds out on planes a few miles from my house. I need to be his friend.

[@garymiller7562]

The coolest part about the B- the fact operators have ejection seats that point down

[@stevengavaris7778]

Yay!

[@thureintun1687]

This dude is so fucking amazing! Also abnormally crazy lol

[@FELiPES101]

What takes the place of the gun in the most recent variant?

[@danodamano2581]

Theres not enough videos of the buff tail gunner compartment. Its an unusual seat that I'm not sure how the gunner set for a long flight. I've heard its a wild ride in turbulent air. Can't imagine how they got through a long mission. No one seems to know anything about the controls so they're not even shown in detail. The crew position was eliminated by the time i enlisted so i missed out on the experience. Moving from the tail forward inflight wasn't done normally unless there was a good reason. It would have been great to see more detail but you seemed to be the focus of most of this video. Hope you feature a tour again so the buff can be seen

[@peckerwood780]

I love the Buff, worked on it for 15yrs. Not that one tho I worked on H models, no tailgun.

[@TJRohyans]

We still had guns on 'em when I first started working on them. The Gunners were retired in '92 IIRC. I went to the B2 in '93 to work in Phase Mx.

[@kensnyder2340]

@@TJRohyans, I went to Tech School the old "H" model at Rantoul AFB in 1966. I never worked on them though as I was shipped to a MAC base to work on the C141's. MAC was so much more laid back than SAC as you know, so I was happy. The last 50 years has flown bye.

[@alecfoster5542]

Why didn't you crawl inside the one indoors and clean at the Museum of the USAF at Wright Patterson?

[@seanclark6438]

What model of BUFF is that, I’m aware that more recent models don’t have a tail gun, maybe I’m wrong

[@Seeker20105]

It was my father's plane. He flew 52's from 1957 until 1966 before transitioning over to C-130's for Vietnam. Considering I'm 47 now, I could have had a full AF career flying the same aircraft.

[@mattdumbrill8324]

This reminds me a lot of the style of Bovington Tank Museum except with slightly less detail. Really interesting though

[@codered5431]

B-52 my favourite air craft id love see one in person

[@yoyoyoyoshua]

It's awesome. One of the planes you see once and remember for years like it happened yesterday. I saw one once do a fly by at a airshow where I live. Was the first time I saw one fly and it was awesome.

[@prof2yousmithe444]

The "Buff" was/is the best value America EVER receiverd! Bar None! These things were solid!! They took a pounding and kept flying! Thank the Lord it was never called on to proceed with its original mission of dropping nuclear weapons all over Russia. I would have loved to see more of the cockpit and crew stations though. Just a thought. I love this aircraft!

[@Bikerbob59]

History still flying like the DC3.

[@Idahoguy10157]

Thirty years ago I was friends with a Master Sgt who was a Vietnam vet B-52 tail gunner who flew missions flying out of Guam

[@carlcantrell4781]

The last 2 bombers to kill fighters were B-52Ds. With 4 50s, that is a D model. It was the last Buff to have the gunner in the rear. The F, G, and H models had the gunner up front. Hey, you missed the nav and bomb nav stations below the cockpit and the EWO station behind the cockpit.

[@MrNx74205d]

An enjoyable episode. Your last few frames near the toilet also showed what could be some kind of avionics like the APN-89 Doppler. I've been told that goes to WWII. Because of the size of the components they called it, "Trash Can Doppler," and it took quite a few of them to make the system. Multiply that by all the systems, and you can see another reason for it's size. Now compare that to the antenna, receiver transmitter, and control indicator of the APN-147 on the A-7 and you can see the reduced size of all the systems due to the change of technology. You could do an episode on this change through the years. At one time I wondered why the bomb capacity of the B-1 would surpass that of the BUF, until I though about the reduction of sizes of these components.

[@hamburger11000]

I worked on them in the 60's at Walked AFB, Roswell, New Mexico. We had E models. You didn't show the Bomb and Navigators area.

[@marcomac2010]

I've done that crawl before!

[@nyx7255]

Lovely craft. Didn't drop nukes in combat but it did drop them by accident while placed on alert *cough* Operation Chromedome

[@biggiefitz6275]

Oops. A big oops! lol

[@Kelly4370]

The B-52 is a Great Plane!!!

[@stevenhoman2253]

Shame you didn't show the other crew stations. 😱😱👏👏

[@terryboyer1342]

I knew a guy who was a tail gunner on D models who flew night missions over Hanoi. He had some scary stories. Also knew a guy who was Gen Curtis LeMays driver for 6 months. He couldn't stand him.

[@killingfields1424]

Its a psychological weapon as well. Knowing one heading your way and you know what it can do, will make you think twice

[@terifarley4770]

B-52, litterally a yardstick, or better yet the USAF's "two-by-four!" Fantastic plane, even with the older engines, at low altitude it was no slouch! Quail decoy was possibly a waste of bomb bay space but the B-52 with SRAM missiles in the 70s and 80s actually stood a good chance at blasting its way through the air defense grid as it could carry 12 of those little rocket nukes vs the earlier two hounddogs!

[@henryschmitt7577]

This is a B-52B am I correct on this?

[@mortem9532]

Didn’t you forget the navigator and bombardier flight deck?

[@MrSvenovitch]

this guide sounds like he's high talking to kindergartners

[@billy4072]

you may find he has a sense of humour. And you....have not. ;

[@9Apilot]

Most civilians are at a kindergarten level relative to the subject.

[@Allan_aka_RocKITEman]

@Sven >>> Who would be crazy enough to speak to kindergarteners when sober? 😝

[@ramosel]

What, you didn't go downstairs from the flight deck!?!?

[@xordus]

That's what I'm saying. That was really cool, the plane is amazing, so lets see more of it! Why you holdin' out??

[@rudedog302]

Yeah no video of the Bomb/Nav station, and the door from the wheel well is on the lower deck. So you had to come in that way. Ok he did show the toilet, that is on the lower deck.

[@TJRohyans]

@@rudedog302 - On "H" models the pisser was on the lower deck, but the "Honey Bucket" was on the upper deck.

[@burroaks7]

7:58 seatbelts for the bombardier for heavy AA whilst on bomb run

[@johnnylee5664]

這架展示轟炸機 在哪裡？（ 這種 B52 是哪個年代的飛機？）

[@colonelstriker2519]

What was inside the bomber that made you use that suit?

[@Wings_Museum]

We had a pigeon infestation and those guys are gross! Even with a good steam cleaning, it's still pretty nasty in there. MB

[@1991ROLEX]

Actually she looks pretty good, the gunner's section and the 47 section look nearly as good as when I was a tech school student and got to go through it. -- back in 1979! At the time she was INSIDE the hanger.

[@bobsnyder3309]

If this is the B-52 that was at Lowery AFB I did my initial bomb loader training on this aircraft.

[@mx5hong]

Wait... So I'm guessing that one cannot walk, crawl from the tail gunner section to the main section right? Especially if the bomb bay door is opened. Right? And meanwhile, the tube in the B-29 that connects the front and rear section is pressurized with both sections so one could cross at any time right?

[@mx5hong]

@JetMechMA I'm guessing the later models with the remote gun and the gunner sitting next to the EWO was a better set up.

[@mx5hong]

@JetMechMA I remember watching a documentary on the B-52 on the Discovery channel or something (back when the channel actually aired something worthwhile). One of the crew said the since the gunner was the only enlisted guy, he made the coffee 🤣. Oh snap! 😅. I bet he wished he was in the older model so he could be all alone with nobody bothering him 😄. And yeah, I remembered the same documentary talking about the Operation Chrome Dome missions. 😨 Wow, that was crazy. Imagine, at one point in time, there were three (?) nuclear armed B-52 up in the air 24/7 on stand by. Just in case. I heard about one that went down in Spain during refueling. Thank goodness none of the nukes went off. And all the nukes were recovered. But I recall that just to be sure, the soil around the area where the nukes were recovered, was skimmed. Then placed in 50 gallon drums and stashed away at a nuclear waste disposal facility.

[@Idahoguy10157]

Hell, there are probably current USAF pilots flying B-52’s their grandfather may have flown

[@ZenZaBill]

5:27 ... imagine looking out the window of your house, and seeing a B-52 parked there. (I'd find it kinda cool, actually!)

[@Wings_Museum]

Us too! I hope the people who live there find themselves lucky.

[@ZenZaBill]

@@Wings_Museum Yeah... unlike the idiot with the gas can.

[@jimhunter4999]

We lived under the flight path of the B-52s in Atwater, CA when they were shooting touch and go's in training the new crews transferring from B-47s at Castle AFB.

[@sayrerowan734]

Did they ever think about putting UV restrictive film on the windows or the plane or simply tinting them?

[@meldroc]

Those bomb bays looked cramped. Hard to recreate that scene from Dr. Strangelove. Do you guys have to have signs in the museum saying "Please do not ride the bomb"?

[@BilgePump]

A buddy & I were at Lowery in 1977-78ish for missle maintenance. 316X1L. (kevin m. incase he sees this) We climbed through a B52 that was in a hanger. I wonder it it’s the same B52?

[@supersexyfatguy]

I've seen the oldest remaining 52 at Pima.

[@healthstathelpdesk604]

Cool, as are all episodes, but hard to tell much from the interior shots.

[@NeoRipshaft]

My grandfather flew something like that, B-17 I think, though he had this weird story about a glowing green orb - and something about 'Taarba' or 'Taarna' or something. War is weird.

[@guyjonson6364]

Give it a century of service

[@jasonharding96]

Public: you can’t use an old plane for modern combat Boeing: YOU CANT TELL ME WHAT TO DO

[@birchtree334]

What the name of the song y'all use. The link isn't helpful and SoundCloud give me almost the right song. Same beat but it's got some guy singing with way to much autotune

[@8aleph]

I worked Buffs 73-76 that was Ds Then again in the 80s Ds again then the H.

[@Riceball01]

I've always wondered if there were crews and maintainers that are serving/working on literally the same exact plane that their dads or even granddads flew or worked on.

[@kruzn1934]

Raceball01...There are three B-52 bomber wings still flying and they all are H models built between 1960 and 1961. If there is an old grandpa that kept his flight records from from that time and a new pilot that flies them now, all he/she has to do is match the tail numbers up. It's possible to have great grandkids that fly and maintain the B-52.

[@davidoquias6061]

Love the BUFF Big Ugly Fat Fellow There is anothe name... any one knows about it?

[@bramantios5797]

Vietnam War teaches lot of lessons to USAF B52. Flying high is riskier than before, SA2 (Russian SAM) gives lot damage to B52 during Vietnam War. Tail gunner was removed and the empty space was used for electronic equipments. With that electronic devices, B52 able to fly low follow earth topography. It gives benefit detected by enemy radar is harder. For radar operator, the blimp from single B52 is really huge. In next decades, B52 will fly side by side with B21 Raider. B1 and B2 will enter retire time soon.

[@Allan_aka_RocKITEman]

*"Even if it harelips everybody on Bear Creek!"* 😁😁😁😁

[@marquee6]

RocKiteman _ 2001. That is exactly what i was thinking!

[@mkii1964]

Only the coolest video ever........

[@doenjangstew4438]

Would you please add English subtitles? Sir.

[@Wings_Museum]

Good idea! We will certainly look into that since our audience is global.

[@doenjangstew4438]

@@Wings_Museum Thank you.

[@Wings_Museum]

I just found out that KZbin has the ability to caption a video. It's not wildly accurate, but you might look into that now. That way, you are not waiting on our three-man team! ;) MB

[@adamdubin1276]

The United States Air Force dropped cluster bombs from bombers, the cluster bombs release their ordnance which impacted a large area of ground. One of the most common types of ordnance used was a type of mine that would embed itself in the ground. The main issue comes from the mines being dropped, forgotten about and a civilian accidentally walks into an unmarked and unexploded minefield. unexploded ordnance is still a major cause of death in parts of Southeast Asia.

[@babybirdflieshigh]

From 1964 to 1973 the USAF secretly flew over 580,000 separate bombing missions into Laos & dropped an estimated 2 million tons of ordinance, according to U.S. government records. Of that total, nearly 300 million cluster bomblets were dropped, & an estimated 80-100 million bomblets never detonated. The result: approximately 50,000 civilian causalities since the mid sixties, of which nearly half were children . Literally thousands of Laotian children are killed every decade by cluster bombs...it still continues today, it never ends. As of 2018, less than 1% of all unexploded ordinance in Laos has been cleared. My country, The United States, which caused this ongoing crisis has done basically nothing to remedy it over the past 40 years.

[@garymiller7562]

I probably won't even remember how to turn it on and I played a lot fly simulator

[@CEd-bm3xp]

You guys gotta do an ac-130

[@timbarnett3898]

Dude, you left out the best part, how were you going to get down!?

[@joshua.snyder]

All those B-52 runs and we still lost in Vietnam. Interesting.

[@polinesia3825]

Is that a cold blush or you're having shingles ? 🤔