B-52 Preflight

[youreale]

wonderfull stuff

[JetMechMA]

I can't get over how young these guys are. OMG!

[PangeaSpreads]

Installing fly-by wire fail 4:47 :)

[stuntmanmike37]

4:50 LMFAO! Untangling the damn comm cord. Been there, done that. :)

[Steinbacker4001]

I was on a roam team for the H model at Ellsworth AFB in 82. Amazing time in my life. It got me that the some of the air crew members even then weren't born yet when their aircraft was built! One cold-a** nights we'd go to the Hobart air-cart and let the hot exhaust blast down the front of our jackets. See those yellow chocks? They are wooden. A bomber rolled up onto one and the chock literally exploded - good thing it was the rear wheels as the debris missed the engine intakes.

[Indianmalujl]

Only plane that can land sideways :) and take off without a rotation.

[hazeleyes1911a1]

Noticed the copilot and one other aircrew just had headsets...do they change to helmets prior to takeoff? (Pilot had a helmet)

[JetMechMA]

@hazeleyes1911a1 Yes they do wear helmets at takeoff. If I remember correctly the Air Force regs required us to wear helmets during takeoff, inflight refueling, low level flight, and during landing. Helmet, mask, and either the clear blast shield or the sunvisor which are both Z87 safety rated.

[ihatemantis]

青天の霹靂…？

wtf

[jgmetals81]

absolute embarassment at 4:50...now the way it should be.

[DobermansRock]

Thank God for the Blackhawk...

[JetMechMA]

I see the ground electrical cord access panel is still screwed up. On the D model there was TWO hinges and ONE thumblatch. On the H model there is one hinge and two thumblatches. Bassackwards. Somebody got the blueprint upside down and that's the way it went into production on the H model. Screwed up, all these years. Amazing !

[JetMechMA]

In another video you can see the Crew Chief attempt to get the air hose off the connection but it's stuck. TOTALLY amazing in all these 28 years that they haven't improved the design of that check-valve. It's extremely dangerous because it's about a four inch diameter hose blowing HOT air at 40 PSI. It'll knock your teeth out and give you a concusion. It worked correctly in this video.

[MarcusKiner]

@JetMechMA Can 40psi do that? I work aircrew flight equipment, and we work with about 100psi at time, but I haven't noticed that...

[JetMechMA]

@MarcusKiner Well, 40 psi will do that when you're talking about a 4 inch diameter hose with a heavy metal fitting on the end.

[JetMechMA]

VERY interesting, at 4:00 the AF finally put thumb latches on the pneumatic connection access panel. We used to have to fumble with four quarter-turn camloc fasteners. They sometimes fell out on the ramp. "Uh, excuse me sir while we find the access panel fastener that just fell out." We requested that change about 27 years ago. Odd that they had been flying them that way since 1962 before we requested that change in 1984. Got it too. Odder still was the older D model had thumb latches.

[JetMechMA]

OMG ...again !!!!  Look how young the pilots are? God bless em.

[JetMechMA]

OMG !...that looks like the same Hobart I used 28 years ago? Good ol reliable Hobart. Now the pneumatic supply cart looks newer. Back then we used the -60s ( dash sixties) and the less reliable MA-1A.

[JetMechMA]

By the way, this isn't the pre-flight inspection, this is only the flight crew walk-around. That's all.

[wwpda]

Thumbs up if you work on this plane and proud of it. Proud  crew chief here from Minot AFB Feels good to have my name on the side of one of these

[CosmicSPC]

gay plane

[Nukem962001]

Aircraft 61-1010 the same plane that flew Nukes from Minot to Barksdale.

[chevyvictor]

far out how olds that young Co Pilot!

[evoldevildogs]

these B-52s are so old look paint chips falling of the old knobs it came with not a single digital gauge please don't buy the F-35 and use the money you saved to update and refurbish the aging fleet of B-52s

[tubefluid]

2 people couldn't count to 8.

[beade1234]

4:16 the sound of engines i like it

[MrUFOscar]

killstreak black ops =)

[s0nnyburnett]

5:00 - multimillion dollar piece of engineering, held up by some tangled electrical cords. Yeah. 

[REEBOKTEX]

Brings back great memories of launching BUFFS.

I like how the COM cable was wadded up in a rat's nest.

[JetMechMA]

@REEBOKTEX McDonalds has been using cordless headsets for over 30 years now. Even back when I was Crewing buffs in the early '80s. Un-fricken-believable.

[Jhorak101]

Is there a part 2 ?

[The1theoneandonly1]

how old is the co-pilot 24 ??

[PattonBeowulf]

this is the time when you're launching a jet you hope its not your stuff that's messed up and you can keep on napping.

[jojocoombs]

Great Aircraft, the buff is the only bomber still flying for as old as it is, and will contiue to fly for years to come.

Crewchief

[d260]

what is the cable he plugs into the upper console at 1:40? some type of flight computer?

[james12436]

double engines......AWESOME

[PowerWagonMatt]

I'd like to know how many G.P.H. that baby uses in cruse. Also(LOL)... does it have a glide speed? What are the chances of loosing all 8 engines! lol

[EatMyPropwash]

@PowerWagonMatt They don't measure in gallons. They measure in pounds per hour, lol. Each engine is around 17,000lbs of thrust, and It does hold around 312,000 lbs of fuel, and each engine individually will burn more fuel in 1 minute than you burn in a V10 in a week... They don't call it BUFF for no reason (big ugly fat fellow).

[emerychandler]

My grandfather flew these from this airbase during Vietnam for strategic air command. Im glad they still have this base.

[GirlonFilm1969]

adore!

[trainguy3]

4:49 that would suck for a job.

What do you do?

I untangle cords...

[jeremypenuta]

@trainguy3 they are ramp guys!

[FloridianAirsofters]

60 years old and still kickin the tires and lightin the fires

[bajesus666]

@FloridianAirsofters not quitin till about 2040 or so. 100 years in the making

[FloridianAirsofters]

@bajesus666 That's called Boeing ingenuity, and S.A.C

[jabp03]

Gotta love the BUFF

[rdavit]

Awesome!!! Thanks for posting!

p.s. The pilots parents weren't even born when this beauty was built....amazing.

[JetMechMA]

@rdavit I wouldn't go that far. This plane was bult in '61 or '62 I think.

[Omatunto]

haha, libertatem defendimus

[virustwin]

why 8 engines (turbines?) though?

[trainguy3]

@virustwin adds more thrust, to carry more bombs, (early jet engineswere not that powerful) at least i think.

[polecat987]

@trainguy3 U R right mate

[JetMechMA]

@virustwin Why 8 engines? Because historically, engine development has always lagged airframe development. When they designed this aircraft...sure they would have rather had one engine produce 34,000 punds of thrust, rather than having two that each produce 17,000 pounds of thrust. At the time, this engine was state of the art. In fact I think it's the first fan-jet engine where most of the thrust is produced by the fan rather than the turbine exhaust. PW2037 wasn't till 1984.

[0MoTheG]

the turbines looked modern, do they still smoke so much or was that just because they were being started?

[khyar]

@0MoTheG The early turbines smoked because they used water injection to augment thrust for takeoff. Modern turbines generate sufficient thrust so water injection is no longer necessary.

[badeyebill50]

@khyar B52H models have TF33 engines and dont "Burn" water

[wolpjame]

The red button is just the autopilot disconnect

[SuperDave619]

My father flew these planes during the Gulf War in the 1991.

[PilotPauloJorge]

Did you saw the co-pilot, he looks so new, he must be extremely good to be so new flying that kind of plane.

[SoundsUzed]

Wow.

Everyone watching this video: Subscribe to Airboyd. Its amazing.

I love those big ones, look at the extra wheels at the end of the wings!

What an amazing thing built by human hands.

[YinYinSaka]

please upload the flight video :)

[killabb24]

I would give anything in the world to fly a plane.. Great video

[RaptorFaceRumble]

Thanks for the video's dude! I will never regret subscribing to you!

[pr4wn5tar]

looks so old and worn. I meant 3:30 green CRT's !?

Still awesome

[0MoTheG]

@pr4wn5tar I wonder where they get them from? no one even throws stuff like that away anymore.

[JetMechMA]

@pr4wn5tar There's a lot of "modern" airliners flying around with 386 based computer chips. And yes they ARE slow to respond....but it works. I asked why and was told that it's because the aircraft was certified that way and to change the computer chip basis for a fly-by-wire aircraft would require a whole new certification.

[jerrry13157]

that red button on the column at 2:14 looked tempting

[FoulOwl]

@jerrry13157 That's the COM1 transmit button.'Fraid it'd be a bit of a let down for you.The only thing that might happen is somebody coming over the radio and saying,"Please quit keying your microphone."

[cholubaz]

@jerrry13157 lol I think that's just the push to talk button for the radio to communicate with ATC etc..

[drewren1231]

@jerrry13157 Auto pilot disco

[trechan]

@jerrry13157 Its only a button to talk to ATC or disconnecting with Auto Pilot. Nothing quite as interesting as the bombs release button.

[buffdr]

@jerrry13157 --Red button is used for multiple use. 1 to disco the auto-pilot, 2 to disco the a/r boom 3. is Engine stall prevention. So it's not a fire away bombs or missiles.