B-52 Mothership taking off with X-43A/Pegasus Stack

This 35 second movie clip shows the B-52 Mothership taking off with a X-43A/Pegasus Stack

NASA obtained a B-52H bomber from the U.S. Air Force in 2001, intending to use the aircraft as an air-launch and testbed aircraft to support NASA, Air Force and industry flight research and advanced technology demonstration efforts at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards AFB, Calif.

The B-52H replaced Dryden's famous B-52B "008" following that aircraft's retirement on Dec. 17, 2004. However, with no research projects requiring its capabilities on the horizon under NASA's restructured aeronautics research programs, the decision was made to return the aircraft to the Air Force.

NASA's venerable B-52B launch aircraft, operated by the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, participated in some of the most significant projects in aerospace history. At retirement in December 2004, the air launch and research aircraft held the distinction of being NASA's oldest aircraft, as well as being the oldest B-52 on flying status. At the same time, it had the lowest number of flying hours (2443.8) of any B-52 in operation, having been used exclusively in the role it continued to perform so reliably for nearly 50 years.

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• Mothership
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• off
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• Pegasus
• Stack

[drbackjack]

@nicktesla45

All good, I wasn't in the best of moods at the time anyways so my apology.

[nicktesla45]

@drbackjack Sorry! did'nt mean to ruffle your feathers . It's just that I am used to seeing the City-size fuckers of the Galactic Federation and so this seems a bit shall we say ,,, Primitive ! ha ha ha ha !!

[drbackjack]

@nicktesla45

"A mother ship is a vessel or aircraft that carries a smaller vessel or aircraft that operates independently from it."

So yes, that piece of shit is indeed a mothership.

[nicktesla45]

You call that piece of shit a Mothership ?!! What a joke !!

[LIR401]

It's going like 8 macks, do u have the balls to go that fast....of couse it's unmanned

[datzfast]

wasted a pegasus

[EMaster9]

It is unmanned.

[oXFalconXo]

Is there anybody that is actually in the

x-43a? or is it unmaned?