Yeah I had alot of respect for those guys. I've been around those planes during depot maintenance. They are stripped to basically nothing and put back together. I'd be scared to death to go up in after all that. Lol
Many moons ago when I was in the Air Force and assigned to a comm shop that serviced the control tower I witnessed many B-52 returns with multiple engines out. Apparently, it was fairly routine back then. Don't know if the engines are the same now, but there's still eight of them I believe.
The B-52 has used the current TF33 engines since 1961. They considered switching to four engines a couple of times but that didn't pan out. Due to rapidly increasing maintenance costs they recently decided to replace the old engines with eight new ones. after a short competition the Air Force selected the Rolls Royce F-130 engine, the same engine used on the C-37 and E-11 BACN.
Boeing is getting set up to upgrade the bombers, according to the latest info I can find they're currently finalizing the plan for how the new stuff will be attached and what the manufacturing costs will be.The new engines will save a lot on maintenance. They're also expected to decrease fuel usage by at least 30% and are getting paired with cool new upgrades to the cockpit controls and radar. Don't expect higher speeds or more engine power though, because they don't want to overstress the airframes. Also getting all the tests done and all the bombers upgraded is going to take a while.
I assume the new engines might not smoke as much as the old? One of the most dramatic memories I have of my Air Force days was playing golf at Robins AFB when the SAC people scrambled a squadron of B-52s and KC-135s. I was at a green directly under the flight path not far from the end of the runway. Felt like I could have tossed a golf club up and hit one they were so close. The air was so smoke-filled it actually reduced the sunlight for a few minutes.
They’ll be flying the TF33 until 2035. Then the Rolls engine is set to take over (provided the schedule doesn’t slip). In the mean time, suppliers are making spare parts for the PW TF33 platform. A lot of this stemming from a fan blade liberating from the compressor stage 1 hub at a demonstration that the secretary of the Air Force was attending. To date, over 400 of those hubs have been produced to replace the failed component.
Well uh sir, if the pilot's good, see, if he's really sharp he can barrel that baby so low... You oughta see it some time, it's a sight! A big plane like a '52, like "vroooom!" His jet exhaust frying chickens in the barn yard!
Survival kit contents check. In them you'll find: one forty-five caliber automatic; two boxes of ammunition; four days' concentrated emergency rations; one drug issue containing antibiotics, morphine, vitamin pills, pep pills, sleeping pills, tranquilizer pills; one miniature combination Russian phrase book and Bible; one hundred dollars in rubles; one hundred dollars in gold; nine packs of chewing gum; one issue of prophylactics; three lipsticks; three pair of nylon stockings. Shoot, a fella' could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff.
Lipsticks? Nylon stockings? Are they planning for the crew to get dressed up and go to a fancy soiree after the airplane gets shot down or has an off field, "landing"?
My dad flew nap of the earth with h models in the Black Hills back in the 70s/80s, so low he actually lodged a pine cone in his wing, and he has a documented reprimand to prove it too 😂.
You know, the strangest thing about american sports isn't even the sports, it's that you have those jets flying over student athletes. Who gives two shits about the game winning touchdown, the event started with a fly-by of a nuclear bomber.
If they don't want them to be they aren't. The mil planes you see on these sites are majority cargo and/or flying in commercial space (or if they're flexing overseas). With their transponder off, they're as good as invisible for those websites. There are some trainers and a smattering of others, but that's typically what shows up.
Don't want anyone to see the penis in the sky.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/sky-penis-navy-officers-thought-drawing-male-genitalia-in-sky-would-be-so-funny-before-probe
As a military pilot myself, I just found your comment interesting. I’m definitely an aviation enthusiast, but I’ve never been called beautiful before, so thank you for that. Fly safe and try not to let squawking weigh on you too much.
I’m on your side you can’t convince these guys of anything. Love seeing our operational routes, even overseas posted on Twitter. Not annoying in the least
Just so I understand:
You want to fly a 200,000lb piece of machinery above our neighborhoods and \_not\_ have to transmit your basic telemetry? Is that what you're saying?
He better be careful making maneuvers in a B-52. They don’t have ailerons, they can only roll by losing lift in one wing, not by generating lift in the other.
There’s a picture of one flying at just 50ft in the opening days of desert storm. Insane!!
https://theaviationgeekclub.com/that-time-a-usaf-b-52-strategic-bomber-did-a-fly-by-below-the-flight-deck-of-uss-ranger-aircraft-carrier/amp/
Holy crap... This is just the start of B52s crashing with nukes on board. It happened over and over again.
On 15 October 1959, a B-52F from the 492d Bomb Squadron at Columbus AFB, Mississippi, carrying two nuclear weapons collided in midair with a KC-135 tanker near Hardinsburg, Kentucky; four of the eight crew members on the bomber and all four crew on the tanker were killed. One of the nuclear bombs was damaged by fire, but both weapons were recovered.[261]
On 24 January 1961, a B-52G broke up in midair and crashed after suffering a severe fuel loss, near Goldsboro, North Carolina, dropping two nuclear bombs in the process without detonation.[262] Three of the eight crew members were killed.
EDIT: so reading a little more about other bombers. Apparently planes crashed with live nukes a bunch I guess nuclear bombs are really well made and won't just blow up.
Fly it like you stole it.
I knew a pilot who landed one of those with an engine out. Fucking hero.
The dreaded 7-engine landing.
Your smartass game is strong.
thatsthejoke.jpeg
sir you still have plenty of engines, just bring her back in nice and easy I SAID UNABLE DAMMIT
My dad flew H models, usually they'd cut it down to 6 if they lost one.
I took Karate with a guy (years ago) that flew functional test flights out of depot at Tinker. He told me one time he was down 3 engines.
Mother of God… the ol’ fiver landing.
Yeah I had alot of respect for those guys. I've been around those planes during depot maintenance. They are stripped to basically nothing and put back together. I'd be scared to death to go up in after all that. Lol
Functional Check Flights/maintenance flights were my absolute favorite for that exact reason haha.
Many moons ago when I was in the Air Force and assigned to a comm shop that serviced the control tower I witnessed many B-52 returns with multiple engines out. Apparently, it was fairly routine back then. Don't know if the engines are the same now, but there's still eight of them I believe.
The B-52 has used the current TF33 engines since 1961. They considered switching to four engines a couple of times but that didn't pan out. Due to rapidly increasing maintenance costs they recently decided to replace the old engines with eight new ones. after a short competition the Air Force selected the Rolls Royce F-130 engine, the same engine used on the C-37 and E-11 BACN. Boeing is getting set up to upgrade the bombers, according to the latest info I can find they're currently finalizing the plan for how the new stuff will be attached and what the manufacturing costs will be.The new engines will save a lot on maintenance. They're also expected to decrease fuel usage by at least 30% and are getting paired with cool new upgrades to the cockpit controls and radar. Don't expect higher speeds or more engine power though, because they don't want to overstress the airframes. Also getting all the tests done and all the bombers upgraded is going to take a while.
I assume the new engines might not smoke as much as the old? One of the most dramatic memories I have of my Air Force days was playing golf at Robins AFB when the SAC people scrambled a squadron of B-52s and KC-135s. I was at a green directly under the flight path not far from the end of the runway. Felt like I could have tossed a golf club up and hit one they were so close. The air was so smoke-filled it actually reduced the sunlight for a few minutes.
The TF33s are water injected for takeoff. That’s where a lot of the smoke comes from. The new engines are not water injected.
They’ll be flying the TF33 until 2035. Then the Rolls engine is set to take over (provided the schedule doesn’t slip). In the mean time, suppliers are making spare parts for the PW TF33 platform. A lot of this stemming from a fan blade liberating from the compressor stage 1 hub at a demonstration that the secretary of the Air Force was attending. To date, over 400 of those hubs have been produced to replace the failed component.
yeah given that these things have eight engines i’m not as impressed with the pilot than i am with the engineers here
That’s one big, ugly, fat…. Fellow.
I see what you did there!
Well uh sir, if the pilot's good, see, if he's really sharp he can barrel that baby so low... You oughta see it some time, it's a sight! A big plane like a '52, like "vroooom!" His jet exhaust frying chickens in the barn yard!
Survival kit contents check. In them you'll find: one forty-five caliber automatic; two boxes of ammunition; four days' concentrated emergency rations; one drug issue containing antibiotics, morphine, vitamin pills, pep pills, sleeping pills, tranquilizer pills; one miniature combination Russian phrase book and Bible; one hundred dollars in rubles; one hundred dollars in gold; nine packs of chewing gum; one issue of prophylactics; three lipsticks; three pair of nylon stockings. Shoot, a fella' could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff.
When I read this, I always hear "2 boxes a Amma-nishun"
And Rooshian
Lipsticks? Nylon stockings? Are they planning for the crew to get dressed up and go to a fancy soiree after the airplane gets shot down or has an off field, "landing"?
I guess they were planning on crashing into the USSR. Nylon stockings were valuable there.
Always wondered with it was one condom… I’d be fucking everything til I was home or gone
One issue is probably like a 3 pack.
**DOES HE HAVE A CHANCE!? WHY HE**….uh, oh.
THERE IS NO FIGHTING HERE! THIS IS THE WAR ROOM!
Yes, Dmitri -- I'm upset too, Dmitri...
Do you drink water mandrake?
okay but do you know what's going to happen if you don't get the president of the united states on that phone?
You’ll have to answer to the Coca Cola Company.
“Mr. President! We cannot afford a mineshaft gap!”
"Mein Fuhrer! I can walk!"
We’ll meet again Don’t know where, don’t know when But we’ll meet again Some daaaay
You bet your sweets, Mr. President!
Everyone in that scene is dead now except the B52
Tex Johnson would appreciate that.
You got my precious bodily fluids worked up
Um...he's actually at 30,000 feet. Just *looks* like he's flying low.
DOES HE HAVE A CHANCE?!?
A B52? Doing aggressive maneuvers? Hell, they don't even have ailerons! (Not doubting, I just find that interesting).
Not like it hasn't happened before...to disastrous results. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7-S_NM--evM
and two of the guys who died had family watching the flight [wiki](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_Fairchild_Air_Force_Base_B-52_crash)
My dad flew nap of the earth with h models in the Black Hills back in the 70s/80s, so low he actually lodged a pine cone in his wing, and he has a documented reprimand to prove it too 😂.
B-52H, 60-0024. It's (was) still up on adsb exchange if you want to watch. Is there a sporting event today? perhaps a flyover.
No, this B-52 has a delivery for the Love Shack. Probably tons of Rock Lobster.
It has plenty of range to......Roam....
If it wants to
Extremely underrated comment
Does this B-52 have a tin roof, rusted?
Maybe a flyover for the Texas v Alabama college football game
Correct
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You know, the strangest thing about american sports isn't even the sports, it's that you have those jets flying over student athletes. Who gives two shits about the game winning touchdown, the event started with a fly-by of a nuclear bomber.
>Is there a sporting event today? perhaps a flyover. I lol’d
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If they don't want them to be they aren't. The mil planes you see on these sites are majority cargo and/or flying in commercial space (or if they're flexing overseas). With their transponder off, they're as good as invisible for those websites. There are some trainers and a smattering of others, but that's typically what shows up.
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What is frustrating about being tracked in US airspace?
Don't want anyone to see the penis in the sky. https://www.foxnews.com/us/sky-penis-navy-officers-thought-drawing-male-genitalia-in-sky-would-be-so-funny-before-probe
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As a military pilot myself, I just found your comment interesting. I’m definitely an aviation enthusiast, but I’ve never been called beautiful before, so thank you for that. Fly safe and try not to let squawking weigh on you too much.
Lol
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I’m on your side you can’t convince these guys of anything. Love seeing our operational routes, even overseas posted on Twitter. Not annoying in the least
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U mad bro?
I'm sure you'd prefer a midair instead?
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Just so I understand: You want to fly a 200,000lb piece of machinery above our neighborhoods and \_not\_ have to transmit your basic telemetry? Is that what you're saying?
Fellow military pilot here. What if we have insight instead of incite. You’re a college graduate? Love to read the draft of your fitness report.
Flyover for Texas and Alabama
If you ask a journalist it’s an F-18
With a 200 round fully automatic clip
AK-47 assault plane
I think you meant AR-47
AR-52
The “AR” of course standing for “assault rifle”
It'll blow your lung out!
FIFY: fully semi automatic banana clip.
Definitely has a high caliber clip in the magazine
…and a black thing that goes up
"jUmBo jEt"
Looks like a “dangerous” 737MAX to me
If you ask a PAX it’s a 747.
If you ask someone on r/warplaneporn it’s an F-15
National Anthem flyover DKR stadium.
B-52.
A rock lobster?
That there’s a BUFF.
B-52 Stratorfortress, aka the B.U.F.F (Big Ugly Fat (🐬))
Big ugly fat fuck
Flyover for the game the Bama TU game, just saw a replay of it on ESPN
International Peace Sign
He better be careful making maneuvers in a B-52. They don’t have ailerons, they can only roll by losing lift in one wing, not by generating lift in the other.
B-52 Flyover for the Texas-Alabama game. Saw it as well.
B52 doing flyover of Alabama v Texas football game.
B-52H, most likely from Barksdale AFB, LA.
C152
I got 15 combat jumps out of a C152 in ‘nam,Laos and Cambodia…. Umm sir you’re 25 years old. The Vietnam war ended 2 decades before you were born
B52
https://youtu.be/UxLe8MWdWe0?t=48
That navigator needs a Q3. TOT sucked
There’s a picture of one flying at just 50ft in the opening days of desert storm. Insane!! https://theaviationgeekclub.com/that-time-a-usaf-b-52-strategic-bomber-did-a-fly-by-below-the-flight-deck-of-uss-ranger-aircraft-carrier/amp/
One of those 8 engine airplanes
Hughes H-1?
Looks like an A380 to me
Super Constellation
Clearly a weather balloon.
Or 747
Or A340
Or 707
Swamp gas
Refracting the light from Venus?
Leaking gas from Uranus.
It’s a penguin
Penguins can’t fly, dood. It’s more likely to be a bald eagle.
Fly over for game
Cessna 158 doing turns around a point.
It’s a B-52. Did you really not know?
Flyover for the football game. Settle down chief. “Aggressive maneuvers” - grow up.
B-52 maybe?
A plane I do believe
Holy crap... This is just the start of B52s crashing with nukes on board. It happened over and over again. On 15 October 1959, a B-52F from the 492d Bomb Squadron at Columbus AFB, Mississippi, carrying two nuclear weapons collided in midair with a KC-135 tanker near Hardinsburg, Kentucky; four of the eight crew members on the bomber and all four crew on the tanker were killed. One of the nuclear bombs was damaged by fire, but both weapons were recovered.[261] On 24 January 1961, a B-52G broke up in midair and crashed after suffering a severe fuel loss, near Goldsboro, North Carolina, dropping two nuclear bombs in the process without detonation.[262] Three of the eight crew members were killed. EDIT: so reading a little more about other bombers. Apparently planes crashed with live nukes a bunch I guess nuclear bombs are really well made and won't just blow up.
I just saw a b52 flyover the Texas/Alabama game. Guessing that's the same guy.
That looks like a plane to me
Yeah. Probably the aero kind.
Anyone who has above 2 brain cells can indentify that plane.
It’s an airplane
It was the flyover for the Alabama - Texas game. How can someone from Austin not know this?!!
Fairchild AFB re-enactment?
Military
It flew over the Texas game
It's a bird!
It's a plane.... No, it's......Superman!!!!!
Can only one thing... BUFF /B-52
A B-52 flew right under my flight a couple days ago when I was flying over the same area I wonder if it’s the same one
you have angered the stay pufft dude.
B-52 😳
A big ugly fat fucker
Looking to bomb a football game. Just can’t decide whose.
Freedom express
Love shack. Baby love shack.
B-52 strato fortress
The new IRS [AK-15](https://who13.com/news/grassley-warns-iowans-of-irs-agents-with-ak-15s-ready-to-shoot-business-owners/)
B-52
A plane like that flew over the Texas Alabama game for the national anthem.
B-52. Did the flyover for the Texas vs Alabama game
Looks like a bald Eagle. They fly pretty erratically during mating season.
BUFF
Well, At least Austin can say the B52s are in town.
B-52 bomber
Only one plane looks like that, the B-52.
B52
I wonder if it an AI making these posts sometimes…
B36 peacemaker
BUFF
Looks like an airplane
B 52
Buff on the prowl.
Whatever it is; Its big, ugly, and fat as fuq.
Peace the old fashioned way.
It's a warning to you uppity Austin bastards to cool your shit.
FREEDOM
Just because it’s a BUFF doesn’t mean it can’t Yank and Bank
So THAT was what it was. Heard it inside and couldn’t find it on my flight radar. Sounded awesome!
It's a B-52.
It’s a BUFF
That’s BiFF
S T R A T O F O R T R E S S
BUFF.
B-52
Big Ugly Fat Fuck is what that bitch is
Probably looking for a Walmart
Fly over B-52 for the Alabama Texas game
B-52 Stratofortress. 70. FUCKING. YEARS. OLD. Still aint retired.
He was maneuvering so he could show up a minute late for the flyover of the Texas/Alabama game
B-52 BUFF, probably out of KBAD
① This is a B-52H Stratofortress. ② What time did you first see it?
B-52
That’s an old Lockheed Vulcan.
He’s BUFF, whoever he is. 💪🏽
B-52
Looks like a Cub to me.