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B-52 Cockpit Footage Aerial Refueling & Landing
Cockpit footage from a B-52 during a military training exercise. War Week is an exercise which incorporates aerial refueling, weapons tactics and high altitude maneuvering. (youtu.be) और अधिक...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Sat in the IP seat more than once and was always awed at what they do. The other impression I got was how little room there is to move around in such a huge plane.
I got about 400 hours on D and E models in the 1960s as an inflight technician on the Hound Dog missile. Always enjoyed sitting in the IP seat and watching the refueling - especially at night with the lights on the bottom of the KC-135 and on the end of the boom. The crews treated this low-grade enlisted man very well, and I was pleased to act as their "flight attendant", bringing the upstairs crew members things from downstairs (lunch, coffee, chocolate milk, cheese and crackers, etc. - not exactly like an airline meal in first class!). Hard to imagine that that was 50 years ago and although the D and E models are no longer flying, the G and H models still are.
Leesville, La. Spent a year there one month in 1965. Viet Nam was an upgrade
This was most likely an electronic bomb run. On the ground there is a truck to receive the signal on bomb release and the computer scores the run detecting how close to target the bomb hits. It is really something to see to bad everyone can't fly a long. I was fortunate enough to be able to as I was a AF plane mechanic on the B52.
Love the practice bombing run on that suburban house's front yard, starting at about 0:20. Unblurred GPS coords in the bottom right corner. ;)
Based on the coords, I make that out to be smack dab center of Leesville, LA, so these guys are probably operating out of Barksdale to the north.
Leesville, LA. Spent a year there one month in 1965. Viet Nam was an upgrade