Boeing B-52 D Walkaround

Boeing B-52 D @ the Imperial War Museum, Duxford, England. The only B52 in preservation in England, this is a Vietnam war veteran.

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• bomber

[bobpeti]

Doesn't anybody have any video that's not low res (240/360) and not herky-jerky? This video and most others on the B-52 just plain suck. The plane is great, the video is unwatchable. Why do they bother?

[lightning1975]

@bobpeti Well why don't you make a better one then? I note that you have never even bothered to upload any other videos of your own.

[jmcgre1]

bad video and garbage music.

[lightning1975]

@jmcgre1: Thanks. I did have better music but they made me take it off. I would be interested to see some of your efforts. ....hang on, wait... you don't have any! ......Shame. :-O

[bluediver2]

Another nice video but we have to include white trash music why the Devil knows

[lightning1975]

Thanks.  I did have nice, period music from the Strawberry Alarm Clock but the fun Police made me take it off!!! Copyright or something....!

[JetMechMA]

@fixedgearforlife Thanks.

[fixedgearforlife]

@JetMechMA The tail number is 55-0062.

[JetMechMA]

@fixedgearforlife The name doesn't mean as much as the number. What tail number is the aircraft you are describing? The guys who worked on it might remember the tail number. Thanks.

[fixedgearforlife]

There is a B-52D nicknamed Black Bandit at K.I. Sawyer. It's got the original paint job but it's not as nice as this one because it sits outside and is weathered.

[47bohica]

I got to UT in "69" as an Instrument Troop SAC Trained Killer from Grand Forks. Went from working on the newer "H" models to the "Dogs" I worked on the one that blew up on the end of the runway the night before that tried to abort due to airspeed(not my fault, I was working on Fuel Quantity problems). To this day I still can't figure out we could launch 12 at a time every 3 hours when we only had 30 birds at a time. We did it every day 7 days a week. Great time, glad it's done.

[JetMechMA]

@t1pnr1ng I see. Is 664 the aircraft we had at Carswell in the early '80s that never flew and was used as a weapons load trainer? Because I don't rember it's tail number. We did go over by it from time to time and canibalize parts off of it. Last I heard a bunch of week-end duty guys towed it across the field and across the grass to install it at that air museum over by the General Dynamics plant on.....White Settlement road?

[JetMechMA]

@maxxbad17 The D model was relatively easy to work on....but it was also relatively unreliable....old technology. The engine cowling was great though. Three guys could remove it and then you had great access to the engines. Modern airliners with their heavy and awkward thrust reversers have terrible access....but work good and last a long time. So you don't need to go in and out of the TRs as often on the newer aircraft.

[t1pnr1ng]

@JetMechMA After thinking about it, I got my tail numbers mixed up. The BUFF I was thinking of was 664. I got her mixed up (believe it or not) with an OV10 that landed gear up at Sembach while I was there.

I last saw 664 in 1978. My last proficiency load on her would have been in June of that year. The weapons loaders used to use 664 as a conventional load trainer.

[ILIASLVR1994]

Thanks to the creators video! Thouse video halp me to make model of B-52D!

[maxxbad17]

the twin engine is really impressive