2009 Blue Angels Homecoming Airshow - B-52H Stratofortress Arrival

B-52H Stratofortress
Static Display Arrival

2009 Blue Angels Homecoming Airshow
Naval Air Station Pensacola
Pensacola, Florida
Thursday November 12, 2009

IN THIS VIDEO, while leaving, I caught a B-52H Stratofortress on downwind for Runway 7R and had enough time to get the camera out for its landing. You will then see it taxi into its parking spot, and I apologize for the colors in that part of the video, which are due to the lighting that was presented to me as well as a slight malfunction of the camera. Towards the end of the video when it spooled all eight TF-33s prior to shutting down, let me tell you that it was VERY loud!

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Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• B-52
• B52
• B-52H
• B52H
• Stratofortress
• BUFF
• Bomber
• Blue
• Angels
• Homecoming
• Airshow
• Air
• Show
• NAS
• Pensacola
• 2009

[bassplaya1549]

Man, that thing must be really hard to land and taxi with that gigantic wingspan

[airshowfansh]

I once heard a story of a B-52 arriving late for static display at Dayton MANY years back. It took the crew three hours to taxi to its parking spot because the wings, once they flexed down, would damage the taxiway lights. To counter this, the crew taxied, transferred fuel from one wing to another, and vice versa, until they got to their spot.

[Z0ne5ive]

I love this... and I remember seeing airshow volunteers pulling down a temporary fence once while a BUFF waited on the taxiway. Forgot about the training wheels, lol...

[fixedgearforlife]

@airshowfansh This is the reason why the Air Force built the runways at bomber bases wider and longer than commercial airport runways.

[fixedgearforlife]

It's from Minot AFB.

[goldfalco]

you know it takes 60 seconds for the flaps to cycle, so to fully extend and retract the flaps, it would take 2 minutes.

[bassplaya1549]

Just wondering Steve is this on the DVD?

[JetMechMA]

@JetMechMA I don't know who that guy in dark clothes was who almost got sucked into the engines. Looked like an airshow official of some sort. Kinda wandering around out there getting in the crew chief's way. I think the Chief finally got his attention and waved him off. What kind of operation they run at that airport anyway?

[JetMechMA]

Just for the record, the guy seen running along side the buff is probably the crew chief. It looked like they let him out along the taxiway and he cleared their path to the ramp. Poor planning on the part of airshow officials. They should have been better prepared. I'm sure the aircraft commander told them ahead of time to have his wingspan cleared and to have a follow-me truck to guid them in. But they adapted and had the Crew Chief jump out and guide them in. Jolly good show.

[JetMechMA]

@JFSnow77 Well it won't dump on the ramp exactly....the reason they do it is so the Crew Chief can do a proper oil service immediately after shut down....which is the proper time to service them. Within 30 minutes of shut down. If they didn't scavenge the oil back into the tank, then when the Crew Chief serrvices oil he might over-service it...and at next engine run it would be vented overboard by however much he over-serviced it....very smoky and very messy...but no bigee.

[JetMechMA]

@airshowfansh Sounds unlikely. very unlikely. The tip gear wheels only touch when the wings are full of fuel...which they would never be at an Airshow. Even with heavy fuel loads, the tip gear STILL don't touch. But with long range combat loads....you know, 240,000 pounds of fuel, yeah then the tip gear touch touch. I was a Crew Chief on B-52H and D models.

[SoccerBoy77]

its certainly not everyday you see a B-52 at a Naval Air Station....awsome!