B52 bombers wait for a U2 spy plane before departing Europe ✈️

[@CobraEmergency]

See a playlist of videos from Bomber Task Force deployments to Europe here: kzbin.info/aero/PLnAhJyL1opj5EQNpj0mTKGYoUEvqLtYux

[@RonnN-gf8tm]

Right On Cobra!!!

[@vincentpitt9670]

😢

[@radoslavivanov8601]

@@CobraEmergency да

[@第92連隊-ranmsansame]

I promised my mother "Let's go see the real B52 together someday," but she died of illness a few years ago and we couldn't keep it. During the Vietnam War, my mother watched the B52s take off from the base every day. My mother had no discriminatory feelings towards the US military, and she boasted to me that "in Okinawa, it's normal for military planes to fly all over the place," and she accepted it as a part of daily life. So this year, if the B52s are parked at Yokota Air Base, I will definitely go see them with my mother's portrait.

[@albievowles6417]

That is probably the saddest and most heartwarming comment I’ve ever seen

[@CobraEmergency]

Rest In Peace, my condolences to you. 🙏 Yokota Air Base had a visit from a B52 earlier this year and another last year - so keep an eye on the skies and the trackers, and hopefully you'll get to see one soon with your mother's portrait. 🌹

[@第92連隊-ranmsansame]

@@albievowles6417 Thank you. I'm honored. I never commented because I wanted sympathy or anything like that, but my mother wasn't surprised to see the JASDF fighter planes at the JASDF air show, so she was interested in the huge US military transport planes C-17 and Osprey. Someday, like my mother, I'd like to see the real B52, even if it's far away, and report it to her.

[@第92連隊-ranmsansame]

@@CobraEmergency Thank you. I will definitely go see it next year with my mother.

[@nnonotnow]

You are a good son! Mother would be proud.🙂‍↕️

[@steveallen1055]

When I was in the Air Force in 1971, I was assigned to the 100SRW(Strategic Reconnaissance Wing). Worked in the Radar/navigation shop. First plane I worked on was a U-2. We had both the old C models and R models. The C model had a very small cockpit. I was 5'10" and 155 pounds and barely fit. I was 19 sitting in the cockpit of the world's most well known plane. It was a great feeling.

[@jackharrison6771]

Great video, thanks for posting. I could watch these two types of aircraft for ages. It's not just their size or the jobs they do; but especially their length of service. They were flying when I was a kid [with the Cold War going on], and now that I'm 66yrs, they 're STILL up to it, when called upon. I would also praise the generations of pilots and other crewmembers, in the case of the B52s. And let's not forget the ground crews, who keep them going. Well done all. I'd love to be able to drive over, and see them, whenever they visit the UK.

[@Supernaut2000]

That U2 just jumps into the sky and can't wait to get up to 80,000 feet where the air is cool!

[@CobraEmergency]

The U2 can't wait to get away from Earth! Aha.

[@anitasmith4559]

It's quite hair-raising to see the U2's almost vertical take off at speed. That's some right stuff.

[@shawnpeterson3386]

"Climbs like a homesick angel" is how it was described.

[@Emlizardo]

Hard on the pilots, though. They don't fly the U2 for long.

[@papajoecooking4425]

My father was Asst. Fire Chief at Barksdale AFB we live not far from the base. Could hear them land and taxi and take off. Was amazing to watch them rev up and take flight! RIP Pop!

[@whicker59]

Every time I've seen a B52 since 1964, I think of 1 of my favorite actors, Slim Pickens.

[@janbonsema5888]

one thousand dollars in cash, a pack of condoms...heck a man could have a good time in Vegas with that

[@smitbar11]

Major T.J. Kong 😆😄😃

[@johnpickens448]

I approve this statement

[@nbk9372]

1968, I used to ride the range out in no man's land, Arizona, and those B52's would fly very low over my head. They stopped doing low level flying in the 80's, over that area.

[@offie8572]

I was at Wurtsmith AFB in 1960 when we got the first 15 H models 60001 - 60015. Glad to see them still flying.

[@peter-radiantpipes2800]

My grandfather flew in the U-2 NASA 2 seater. He never mentioned it and I found out from my uncles at his memorial. I’m sure it was atmospheric research given his field. Would have loved to ask questions but prob a reason he didn’t mention it. I’m not surprised given his life’s work but it’s still among the coolest things he’s done I know of.

[@lindaj5492]

Your grandfather maybe had signed something like the Official Secrets Act that we have in UK. Length of your ‘keeping silent’ depends on the level of security clearance you had. I hope you can keep his memories alive for other family members: his was one of the most amazingly heroic generations.

[@claireingles-sj6xz]

I wish my dad could have seen the U2 takeoff, though, knowing him he probably worked on the darn things as a mechanic. Did what he loved for over 40 years. I loved to go to air shows with him just to stand a ways back and put on his training "cap" for the kids looking at the planes even though the pilots were right there. They probably learned a few things too. Recently went to Sheppard in Wichita Falls (to see where I was born) and saw the maintenance statue outside the front gate. There was a tear, I'm not gonna lie. Thank you to all those guys (and gals of course) who kept, and continue to keep, our proud birds flying. I know who the REAL power behind the stick jockeys are and they're always working in afterburner.

[@honeyqueen4619]

The B-52 is an awesome plane. Air Force pilots are the best pilots in the world go Air Force let’s fly.✈️🇺🇸

[@TheWGLOVER]

That B52 is one gorgeous looking aeroplane.

[@CobraEmergency]

Iconic really!

[@EASTSIDERIDER707]

For her age.

[@loriclem6889]

​@@CobraEmergencywho designed it?

[@CobraEmergency]

@@loriclem6889 Boeing

[@alexkoronec4326]

Yes, I remember them taking off from my base 😮

[@joannicholson3030]

First cobra ive seen, very impressive, from an impressed Brit.

[@mtnride4930]

VERY COOL footage. I was assigned to the 22nd BW when I was a medic in flight medicine, got to go all thru a BUFF. This was during the Linebacker 2 operation our BW lost a few of our aircraft and crews during that operation. May they all rest in peace.

[@drop12341]

You’ve created an outstanding video. Having spent a number of years in aviation and aboard a carrier and at several naval air stations, mostly flying medivacs and as an ASW air crew member I still yearn for the sounds and smell of the tarmac, JP5, and overall exhaust.

[@user-hc5of8xk3r]

Those things are frickin massive ! 🇺🇸

[@rayjay5836]

Say no to oil people would just have a heart attack seeing that B-52 take of LOL

[@leandabee]

I was looking for a comment like yours 😅. Why don't they come and lay down outside the bases and see how far they get,🤦🏼‍♀️. Having said that, that really is an awful lot of pollution 😳

[@RobMedvedev]

They will have a bigger heart attack if ww3 comes home again

[@h.h.6171]

@@leandabee The "G" models were "water wagons", and their exhaust was a thick black. Comparatively, these are clean.

[@asusblack606]

​Thanks to GE Electric TurboFans F118s 😊

[@ChanoLeyva-hq2ci]

@@asusblack606 yea they aren’t super efficient

[@buckarookirb]

Thanks for the Great video !!

[@DronemanJoeRc]

wow the b52 is a awesome bomber and its more impressive than the B1 or even the B2 this is a classic plane and still has the best in class skills

[@derekwinston4105]

Nah B2, bone, and then the buff. Grew up and lived 2 miles from Barksdale’s AFB for 30 plus years. I’ve seen them all in person many times. Bossier City, Sligo road.

[@davideddy5877]

Two types of just amazing aircraft.

[@millimetreperfect]

One of the smaller outer flaps on those beasts has more surface area than the whole of my plane, so impressive that they were designed and built so long ago by people with slide rules and a pencil and still frontline machines.

[@mt5144]

The 4 above B52H's were on deployment in RAF Fairford in the middle of May 2024 & left for home in the USA on 20 June 2024

[@rwest1818]

These things deploy for one reason Europe is close to where is happening

[@DPatrick-p3d]

I love watching these Buffs. Brings back great memories when I was a crew chief on B52G’s at Robins AFB. Still a great plane. 😊

[@ar-15techtipsinunder5minut8]

Imagine being one of the test pilots flying this incredible machine for the very first time, then providing feedback.

[@BobR-x5o]

What a beast

[@RonnN-gf8tm]

Its 91* today...4 fans running on high.. hope your staying Cool Cobra!!!

[@CobraEmergency]

Hot hot! Thanks Ron! 💪

[@wildcolonialman]

Fabulous fabulous fabulous Cobra.

[@CobraEmergency]

Thanks!

[@edekoka6267]

These airplanes clean the air.

[@user-ex4si2md6r]

Well done ✅ exallent photography 😃💯🆒

[@RichardWorkman-k1e]

All of those aircraft are some serious respect demanding pieces of historical strategic air superiority

[@briannagorman3119]

Watching these massive planes take off or coursing through the sky is something I will never forget.

[@nealanthony3482]

The engineering that went into those planes is already 70 years old, and it is still just breathtaking! Humans really can do amazing things! Just think if we focused all our energy on construction rather than destruction! But, of course, our military is and should be the best in the world!

[@Kerrison01_01]

Magnificent! 😮

[@Skibbam]

Great video! I was fortunate to see the B-52 fly at Kosh in 2017 and to walk under the bomb bay. So cool! Thank you for this.

[@CobraEmergency]

Thank you! They're awesome up close, aren't they?

[@susanaflores5191]

Europe...the " heat " is on . Prepping up , COBRA EMERGENCY . GOD BLESS YOU ! ❤

[@johnsev3046]

Yea man I feel it too. God help my 8yr old twins

[@1LEgGOdt]

It’s crazy that the U-2 was suppose to been replaced by the SR-71 Blackbird, and yet here we are with the U-2 still flying long after the SR-71 has been retired from service.

[@matthewsnowdenshunterguy3352]

Those U2's are a mad design

[@rf200774]

In a nutshell the plane hates the ground but loves to be in the sky 😅

[@russellgtyler8288]

I grew up around SAC bases. This is a part of the soundtrack of my youth. I still love it.

[@marksamuelsen2750]

I was in the USAF when Chrome Dome was happening. Stationed at SAC Headquarters in Nebraska Offutt AFB it was always scary when they took off. Didn’t know if they would drop the bomb somewhere.

[@lindaj5492]

Just love that Dragon Lady ❤. Jumps up as if from a slingshot.

[@tfp0052]

5th Bomb Wing. I was assigned to the 5BW in the 90s. I still take a lot of pride in the unit!

[@CobraEmergency]

Thank you for your service! The 5th Bomb Wing have been deployed to RAF Fairford on a number of occasions, so we get to see the unit a lot.

[@shawnpeterson3386]

It's interesting to watch both aircrafts' wings flatten out as they accelerate.

[@oifmarinesgt]

If you see both of these planes taking off one after the other something is about to go down. You better make sure you're on the right side.

[@johnwatt72]

What is going on with the new upgraded engines for the B52s? Has this started yet as the smoke coming out of the back of the plane would suggest that they are still running on the old ones!

[@eddiemeeks7133]

What a BEAUTIFUL bird.

[@rv1251]

Looks like diesel engines by the smoke it produces😂😂😂

[@2K9s]

Rolling coal… Murica! 🇺🇸

[@MSzudera]

Stellantis….RIP by the way

[@robertburdick2998]

Not smoke, water injection into engines for power.

[@johnpickens448]

No, that's smoke, and jet fuel IS diesel

[@jansupronowicz1300]

I once witnessed take-off of B-52. It was during an Air Show in London, Ontario. Remember lots of noise and lots of smoke.

[@ruperterskin2117]

Cool. Thanks for sharing.

[@ThomasRapp-l4l]

Rollin the coal. Will miss that part and the screeming Pratt's when the new RR's are installed.

[@smitbar11]

U2 climb rate reminds me of the Avro Vulcan B2, very rapid!

[@Slip_Digby]

What are they powered by? Coal?

[@yxeaviationphotog]

What day was this? I followed two B-52s and two KC-135s as they flew south over France towards Sardinia.

[@CobraEmergency]

Tuesday 18th and Thursday 20th of June, this week just gone! These went over the North Sea and back to the USA.

[@K_Hansen]

The U2 is a hoot to be around, i can guess what package is on it (Inclusive of the satcom link) i worked on those (all 3 that the U2 flew 😊

[@gzappa]

I wonder what the Stop Oil people would say about all that smoke.

[@Pete-jg1rz]

Amazing two carryovers from the Cold War era still at work 60+ years since their first deployments

[@arshire]

Can you make a video of a dog reacting to one of the emergency vehicles, it's cute and funny lol! ❤❤🤣🤣

[@spiritualdeath101]

I wonder where the U2 was headed? Some sight-seeing somewhere in Europe maybe. U2 flies 10,000 feet higher than Concorde ie. about 13 miles high. I wonder what sensors it carries and what live footage was collected of artillery exchanges in Ukr war. Sadly this will remain highly classified. God willing.

[@misty28882]

Wow 😮 I'm amazed!!! GO USA OUR COUNTRY DON'T COME TO PLAY!!!!😅😅

[@RogerRobinson-Brown]

Spent a few weeks in 1972 anchored at the end of the runway at D.G. Spectacular Sight The Wingtips moving 12 feet from stationary to lift off speed with a full fuel and bomb load.

[@aurielambert]

what are those ribbon things hanging off the bombers and the u2, that a military guy runs up and to plane, grabs the ribbon-often way above his head, and tears it off ? thank you

[@eddiejones.redvees]

Smokey engines liveing in the UK I have been to a few air shows and watch the Vulcan bomer take off and put a demonstration on for use it and concord are the lowdest air craft I have seen but the best sounding aircraft are the spitfire and Lancaster bomer

[@johnjessie3083]

I really like 👍🏻 these guys! Specially wonderful sound❤💯❤

[@HelixRsix]

Is this RAF Fairford and when was this is it a deployment change over of aircraft

[@CobraEmergency]

This is RAF Fairford, yes. End of deployment and B52s going home to Minot, North Dakota. U2 returned the same day.

[@HelixRsix]

@@CobraEmergency thanks and yup could tell by the MT on the tail keep up the interesting work

[@CobraEmergency]

@@HelixRsix Thanks!

[@USAIRFORCE621]

I'm willing to bet that that U-2 is out of Beale AFB and the B-52's from Minot. Smart of the B-52's to wait because for one those wing wheels on the wing U-2 aren't fixed, just used for takeoff and landing and when you have a chase car flying down the runway at over 100 mph you don't need a big buff in your way.

[@anderspettersson2958]

How are the wing wheels mounted in preparation for landing? 🤔

[@lindaj5492]

@@anderspettersson2958 😂 They’re not! Pilot skill keeps her balanced.

[@imransharif443]

Nice Big B 52, Cobra Emergency Cobra Energy great

[@BLOLite]

Fasciinating. What a lot of fin correction on the U2 takeoff- didn't look too windy,is that a function of the geometry of the sole inbord undercarriage and sacrificial.wing props at low speed? Ie no egfective griund correction.

[@johngodfrey-zv3po]

USA Build some Beautiful Birds

[@thierryloop4039]

Merci beaucoup, c'est très impressionnant à regarder 😍

[@CobraEmergency]

Merci!

[@ChrisZoomER]

What’s with the sooty exhaust?

[@mita6010]

What in the heck was that aircraft at 8min 47sec in? I’ve literally never seen anything like it. BTW, incredible video quality.😊

[@IM-lr6vz]

U2 'Dragon lady'

[@bonkeydollocks1879]

Went to fairford in 2003 to see the B-52's , as I was parking up , one came into land , right overhead, about 2 hours later , two took me off then waited all day nothing but a guy told me to hang on five minutes more , sure enough and Apache circled us watching , then flew low along the flight line of incoming aircraft , then circled a few times and just hovered to the side then sure enough a big light in the distance and it was an incoming B-52 , could almost touch it

[@ai4gk]

Beautiful birds! Might be an odd question, but was their call sign "ghost?"

[@CobraEmergency]

Coke 11 and 12, Stoke 11 and 12 They've used Ghost before though!

[@ai4gk]

@@CobraEmergency thanks! It was difficult making it out.

[@jamespell8091]

They hiked the ball. Theres the handoff. Wait (youtube comercial) lots of hangtime. The pass is good.

[@tommanley2924]

*Ramping up the War Games no one wants we all see!*

[@GerardoCabrera-q9f]

Yes love the intro....r.p. Malcom

[@adamvinnicombe4086]

Why am i just now realising how small the u2 is

[@CobraEmergency]

Yeah, it was designed to be as light as possible.

[@ericulrik6659]

Really fun to watch vids you got on your channel! So with the new rolls-Royce(made in USA) engines, guess we won’t see that famous smoke trail any more. 😢

[@BugattiONE666]

Seeing that takeoff, u can see how the U2 is the oposite of the SR-71. The SR-71 was of course biblecally fast, but its climb rate was rather though, the Dragon Lady might only do 400mph, but itll do that straight up xD

[@dixonpinfold2582]

Badass in airplane form. Don't mess with America.

[@escapetheratracenow9883]

Unless you're members of the Taliban, the Viet Cong or the North Vietnamese Army. The rest is history. Even the Houthis are laughing at Uncle Sam and his Muttley-like sidekick in London.

[@dixonpinfold2582]

​@@escapetheratracenow9883 Actually the Vietnam and Afghanistan wars had their intended effects: In the case of Vietnam, to put an end to Chinese communist expansion in Asia; in the case of Afghanistan, to put an end to the Taliban's dreams of sponsoring continued acts of terror in the US and the West. It was never actually believed by the US administrations involved that those two countries could actually be taken over and revamped like Japan was after WWII. Not without total war, which was neither fully called for, justifiable, nor ever supported by the American public. All that was necessary was to prove to their regimes that the US would impose a far-too-heavy price for attempts at spreading their abominable ideologies.

[@escapetheratracenow9883]

@@dixonpinfold2582 Absolute crap. Belive what you want. The world saw the pandemonium on the roof of the US embassy in Saigon, and the bigger humiliation in Kabul 3 years ago. And you think you can defeat the Russians and Chinese, let alone North Korea?

[@dixonpinfold2582]

@@escapetheratracenow9883 I can't defeat anyone except know-nothings on KZbin.

[@escapetheratracenow9883]

@@dixonpinfold2582 And you can't do that either, Captain America.

[@asusblack606]

If you never witnessed a Unicorn Well you just witnessed 2 Unicorns taking off. 😮😂

[@claireingles-sj6xz]

Yes, I never cared for the rainbow and glitter kind.

[@KarlGrettenberger]

Do you get alo To much bird strike. ?

[@lindaj5492]

4:30 Their huge hunched backs just reminded me of the aliens in the 5th Element film.

[@northsideservice-pd6cc]

What an awesome video. Soooo Pink Floyd Lol

[@lindaj5492]

Welcome to the machine.

[@elainepatterson9905]

God I miss this!

[@EkimDyslexia]

U2 has amazing lift...jumps off runway

[@cidertom5140]

I’ve never seen a pick up reverse as quickly as that.

[@jimchik]

Is that much exhaust normal?

[@Crow-l6k]

Those birds give true meaning to the words ( don't mess with the U.S. ) unless you want 1 of them flying over your roof top

[@adadwithnoclue7978]

Which aircraft is it that the wheels are placed on and drop off after take of I thought it was this one

[@nedmac2116]

U-2

[@averteddisasterbarely2339]

If they use them to take off then how about landing ? It seems they play an important roll

[@lindaj5492]

Watch again about 7 minutes in when the tiny Dragon Lady U2 takes off: ground crew check that wing support wheels are prepped to release, and you can see them drop as plane nears lift-off. Ground crew then race in to pick them up.

[@lindaj5492]

@@averteddisasterbarely2339 Saw U2 land in another YT channel: very skilled pilot keeps Dragon Lady elegantly balanced on her narrow wheelbase until virtually at standstill.

[@markblain8438]

Pretty new RR engines

[@RodolfoGaldamez-fq2pv]

GRSCIAS A DIOS TODO PODEROSO DIOS DE LOS EJERCITOS ESTADOS UNIDOS ESTA BENDESIDO POR DIOS Y POR ALGO ES EL MAS PODEROSO DE LA TIERRA

[@richardeggleston8087]

Big Bad Beautiful Plane

[@stevenclark1973]

Brilliant engineering to get these things off the ground.... you got to wonder about the amount of crap these things kick out though that we ultimately breath in. Great video.

[@ท่านพะยานาค]

จะไปทิ้งระเบิดที่ไหนครับ😊😊

[@RobertB56]

They certainly blow a lot of smoke

[@BrentMettert]

Just another day of keeping the free world safe from bears and dragons!!!!

[@robertnilla]

trust me brent.. these big birds will and can be destroyed with advanced missile technology !

[@James-c8s9z]

Beautiful old bird...

[@freddy1637]

Be Safe May God Bless You Beautiful American

[@silverdrillpickle7596]

Why didn’t that first heavy read back his departure clearance?

[@borismedved835]

When I was 12 years old, I wanted to watch the first time the fist B-52 landed, at Larson AFB in April 1952. It went straight in from the "wrong" direction, so we didn't see it until the end of its first test flight there. We were used to watching F--86s and C-124s from where we lived. Later that year, the worst ever crash happened there, a C-124 taking 87 guys home to Texas for Christmas. There was no TV set or station anywhere near us, so we didn't see any broadcast news of either event.