Skilled US Pilot Releases Massive Drogue Parachute to Stop His Massive B-52

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[@TheAmanla]

All ways like to see *YOU* all men at work for America. Good jobs ! TY

[@pilot3016]

My old Sailplane (H-301 Libelle) had one too...and trust me, it worked REALLY good. Close to, too good.

[@edutaimentcartoys]

nice airplane video, big plane with big parachute

[@larryrobertson4099]

I didn't catch this 7 months ago, but the Buff fully loaded weighs 488,000 pounds at unstick, not 265,000 pounds they said in this video. That means its engine start weight is about 520,000 pounds. It would burn 32,000 pounds of fuel during its taxi and takeoff roll. In the 'G' model I flew in the 70s, part of those gross weight numbers were 10,000 pounds of distilled water we injected into the engines during takeoff to get the lumbering beast off the ground. The 'H' model didn't need water because its engine thrust was/is 17,000 pounds per engine. Ours in the 'G' was only around 14,700 pounds per engine with water for only 90 seconds then back to 9700 pounds per engine. It made it real tricky during our Guam takeoffs during the Vietnam conflict. The Guam runway was a hundred feet lower in the middle of the runway. So the last half of our takeoff rolls were up hill. The 'H' models had no problem and would continue to accelerate. Our airspeed indicator tended to stop halfway up the hill.

[@joesanchez979]

Beautiful sight😊

[@kendrickkelly2336]

Pretty monster!

[@devinjonathan5681]

4:41 "I lost my pencil up here" lol 😂

[@larryrobertson4099]

I don't believe the TF-33 engines on the 'H' model BUFF can do the reverse thrust thing to help slowing. Perhaps the two engines together preclude that option. I know the B52G I flew didn't have that option. Besides, that's what the drag chute is for.

[@bobmcguirk7272]

H models don't have water injection either. They have turbofan engines unlike the earlier models that had turbojets.

[@larryrobertson4099]

Right. They could take off from Guam without any problem. The 'G;s I flew even with water injection had problems. But if you are knowledgeable about 'H's, that are becoming 'J's with new engines and electronics, do they have an actual closed-door bathroom? I notice in several of these B52H clips that there are female crew members. The 'G' model I flew didn't have a bathroom. It had a honey bucket in the aisle next to periscopic sextant nav station with a pee-can downstairs in back of the nav stations. I cannot imagine that working for the women. Just curious. Those new engines will extend possible mission lengths even with fewer air refuelings.

[@bobmcguirk7272]

@@larryrobertson4099 All my time is in G's. They got rid of us gunners before women were aloowed to fly combat aircraft. I've never been in an H model but from what I understand the just rigged up some kind of curtain that they can use for privacy on the honey bucket. I think the instructor EW now sits in the gunners old seat.

[@larryrobertson4099]

I got out in 1977 while gunners were still part of the crew in 'G's. In 'G's, you never flew the tail but at Castle AFB while I was in training, we flew 'F's and gunners were in the tail. They tried to put me in 'D's but I was too short at 5'7". That seat only had two positions, up at an angle back and down at an angle forward. The 'F' had four positions. The 'G' had six positions. The EC47 I flew in 'Nam fit me perfectly. People were smaller in the 40's...

[@rhuff5485]

Hello from an old "G" model "screw chief" from Griffiss. 0574.

[@rezaanasori8363]

Very nice,very good,it's USA power

[@uchungnguyen7686]

Tuyệt Vòi lắm Nghe ❤

[@augusteaugustin4004]

"dark trails because of water injected in engines", it's too funny ha ha hi hi

[@milosmuzik_cz]

Hey. Hey. I'm surprised that the US Army doesn't address wastewater after decontamination. That's kind of a half-assed solution. Contaminated wastewater is a source of further contamination. Soldier protection is also inadequate. See how they do it in the Czech Republic 🇨🇿. We have mobile decontamination units that deal with decontamination of equipment and people in a much more sophisticated way 👍

[@rael5469]

I served on B-52s and you are absolutely correct. The U.S. Air Force does most things half way.

[@Songcham77]

Ngưỡng mộ đất nước của bạn

[@xavierthomas8311]

Jolie petite vidéo presque inquiétante quand on voit le poids de cet B52?

[@vangvan1654]

Không phải ngăn chận mà là làm giảm tốc độ của phi cơ khi hạ cánh

[@oumski6893]

❤😮

[@khkg2855]

THE❤❤FC❤❤สุรักษ์❤❤

[@rael5469]

Oh gosh, the fully loaded weight of the B-52 is over 500,000 lbs.

[@rael5469]

7:30 The dark trails are not from water injection. The B-52H does not have water injection. The dark trails are because the powerplants are one of the oldest designs and they are inefficient. Terribly inefficient, and so the unburned fuel makes a smokey trail. The new model powerplants should eliminate the smoke trail.

[@user-xk1uv8qi2u]

Como. Ni lasi grasias es me meresco cutas ideas les a yudado metien. Asi es juete no nase diario

[@alanutzig6842]

Since when does a B-52 have reverse thrust????

[@rael5469]

It doesn't. But I wonder if they've worked out a reverse thrust scheme for the new powerplants? ....since they have reverse thrust on the other aircraft they are installed on.

[@briancooper2112]

Parachutes have been used on B-52's for decades.

[@phamluan123]

Bung dù để cản lực hạ cánh

[@bobmcguirk7272]

Just watched the B-52 part of the video. Do you guys just make stuff up?

[@bobmcguirk7272]

@@flightforensics4523 I see you used to fly them. I'm an ex G model gunner. :)

[@user-xk1uv8qi2u]

Ano es to li sijues por protesion Amos pasajueris comi la iseh seca sin paga

[@andilowe9526]

Deutscher Videotitel ,aber keine deutschen Untertitel! Abgebrochen!

[@user-xk1uv8qi2u]

Almenose que ustedes sin gente vedisiones.

[@Frima.Mafia.]

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[@user-kj1th2qh2i]

လေယာဉ်က လေထီးသုံးရတယ်ဆိုတော့ ဒီလေယာဉ်မဟုတ်သေးဘူး။ သူ့တစ်စီးလုံးကို ကယ်ဖို့ (ကျရှုံးခန်း) ပေါ့နော်။

[@khanhphan6069]

Trên thế giới Hoa số 1

[@user-xk1uv8qi2u]

Comi me Asean eso un inveto isirvio y no me pagaron nada tejo. Amos dado ideas. Lo de glovo de chi y metien durmiedi en el beismen. Madre mi por

[@huynh-amoitruongxanh3019]

CÁC NHÀ chế tạo ra nên nghiên cứu ra để trang bị choTât cả các loại máy bay đều phải được gắng du để đảm bảo an toàn cho máy bay khi bị trục trặc về kỷ thuật trên động cơ đang bay, gắng liền với thân máy bay.....?????

[@vyxuan940]

thấy chiếc b52 mà buồn cười quá ?!một cường quốc về vũ khí và khí tài mà lại dùng phien bản của thế kỷ trước ! chắc hết phát minh được nữa rồi ?quá tội !

[@lwmillerlwmiller]

285k lbs fully loaded is inaccurate.

[@rael5469]

You're right. It's over 500,000 lbs.

[@elwooddebrot7128]

Pick a

[@rhuff5485]

Your intro picture shows 2 drag chutes. Is that a joke on the ignorant or are you really telling us they used 2 chutes? As an old bomber crew chief, I think you are filling up my B.S. filter.

[@user-xk1uv8qi2u]

Wat nor peay y is not fer. Am she pers am no pls o gat

[@user-kx5yk2zl4v]

Такая силища! Ну почему его не направить на кремль?

[@kevinhom8812]

You sure like the word massive?🥹How about the pilot pulls a handle and the chute deploys. Probably a six month course for this🤭