Inside US Air Force Largest Facility Restoring Broken B-52 Bomber
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
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It's impressive to see young men and women working on aircraft that were originally built before any of their parents were even born. Their professionalism gives me great hope for the future of this country at a time when our leaders lack any of these qualities!
Gucci gang Taylor made our kids we're baked with love .. 4:14
Delivery driver no bueno
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The men and women who turn the wrenches are some of the most valuable assets for our military God bless them all.
Great vid, and produced showing us whats going on, no inane talking by a fuckwit, no annoying music, just vids of crews working, and related noises , thanks!
I have worked in maintenance of heavy machinery, buses, trucks. As a car body repairer, welding with TIG, mig, migmag, also as a computer scientist and I have also been in aircraft workshops. and I looooove that work environment, it makes me feel at home, those workers are lucky.
So what.....
U guys and Gals are awesome THANK U FOR YOUR SERVICE AND DEDICATION
Cool story bro
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I miss the work. My body doesn't.
These men and women are refurbishing planes built by their great grandfather or grandfather. Carrying on the legacy as the new air crews do. Protecting our nation from harm by ensuring the peace, until the day when man will not make war against his brother.
Thats the cheesiest comment I have ever had to read on UA-cam. You get a thumbs up for that.
That day will never come until we evolve again
We admire and endorse U.S military forever as we are patriotic americans forever.
I knew those b52s had some level of rebuilding but I never knew it was such a deep and comprehensive restoration such as this. I mean it's essentially a new aircraft when it rolls out of there. Absolutely amazing. Just amazing.
it is pretty amazing... when one crashed awhile back they yanked one from the bone yard refurbed it and off it went.
Thank you for the informative and interesting video showing the inside of this Massive repair and rebuild Facility. The B-52 developed in the 1950s and is still part of the backbone of America's Airforce. I guess you can call it a feel good proud Nostalgia I have for the Iconic B-52. Up graded and modernized weapons and electronics so they are still able to meet the demands if the US ever gets into another major conflict, they have stood the test of time.
Development actually started in the mid 1940s
Thanks Air Force! Masters of the Air!
The facility is so tidy and clean. I’m envious.
Prior military but no way an aviation "expert" by any means, but the wildest thing about the really BIG planes is how slow they look taking off. It's incredible to watch. I swear like a helicopter. The high caliber of skill is something I miss being around. Including where I work now. The days of performing perfectly are gone. God Bless America and all of our brave armed forces heroes. 💯❤️🇺🇸
I left Guam in early 1972 after Line Backer II and my last view of the Anderson AB flight line was a shell of a cannibalized B-52 that I would have guaranteed you was just a scrap metal pile. I passed through Anderson again in 1974 and the B-52 was gone. I asked what happened and they said they brought a team in and rebuilt it. They flew it out.
God Bless you all for keep us safe, you are all just as important as the crew that flying this planes and keep us all safe....a HUGE THANKS
Скоро вам откроют глаза как и всему миру . Это сделает один человек . пУТИН фашист . Скоро гражданские недовольства произойдут как и у вас и у нас. И все правительства всего мира ужаснутся . И мы приведем этого человека к экрану ТВ всего мира .
What a mighty repair facilities USA has for the air forces 👍💪
Love the Buff!
This video was pure genius! You have such a talent for content creation.
In August of 1969, after spending a year in Thailand at U-Tapao, guarding B-52s and KC-135s, as an SP Sentry Dog Handler, my next assignment was to Tinker AFB, Oklahoma City, OK. At Tinker, I worked as an SP Law Enforcement Officer along with a civilian police force on the base. At that time, as it is now, it was a logistics facility that employed 23,000 civilians and 7,000 military personnel working on and upgrading B-52s and F-4s as well as making repairs to various other aircraft that would occasionally come in with damages. Seeing the picture of the B-52s in the hanger now, modern, clean, and well lighted, they were nothing like that in 1969. They had three planes in each of the two hangers at that time, parked at and angle to make them fit, and because there were some classified equipment remaining on the planes while being repaired, they would post a Security Policeman in each hanger guarding them on the weekends while the workforce was off. I got that duty a number of time and, even after having watched them take off and land every day the previous year, I was still amazed at the size of them being so up close to them in the hangers. Even climbed up inside a few times and they seemed even bigger from that view. It is so awesome to see how much Tinker has changed since I was there 55 years ago. I was there until January of 1971 when I was discharged from the Air Force. It really was a great assignment, like having a civilian job, after having been at a SAC Base then a year in S.E. Asia and if they would had let me stay there for the next 16 years, I would have re-enlisted. Unfortunately the war was still going strong and my career field was critical to S.E Asia so if I had stayed in, in all likely hood, I would have wound back there.
Enjoyed watching brought back good memories I worked the B-52 the F-111 kc-135 and C9 retired USAF electrician
🤔 well done sir 💯..I was raised in the, 60's & 70's my daddy was in "AAFES as an accountant & grew up watching air Force and Navy aircraft and always admired their dedication of excellence & bravery 🇺🇲☮️🙏🌎
Great video..thanks!!
BUFF never dies.
Got to love how the B52 civilian workers are free to wear any kind of attire working as a team, and outstanding professionalism. Good luck
I love the US AIR FORCE and all the US forces and this A 10 fabulous. French fan, your power is incredible.
God Bless America
Keeping America Great and Free, one bolt at a time. Thank you Ladies and Gentlemen, military and civilian for your service!
Also keeping a large part of the rest of the world free, as well - including me! I echo your thanks.
Patriots keep the USA free
Brown people aren't going to bomb themselves after all.
Появится скоро человек который откроит всему миру глаза .
LOL. Neither great or "free" anymore.
The greatest conventional bomber ever conceived and built in quantity.
Very cool and amazing.
Beautiful people doing beautiful things, God bless America 🇺🇸
Every time I see a video like this I think of that metal strip which fell off an American Airline plane taking off from Paris airport…sending whole Concord fleet to oblivion!
Great film. Used to work on usaf bases in England in the eighties. Loved usaf fairford. Got to make some good friends there. Watching the b52 planes landing and taking off by the flight line. Got invited by some technicians I was friendly with into the engine test building when they were testing a jet engine. When it was on full power in there, it felt like you were standing on marbles. Brilliant experience. Many thanks.
You did lol 😂
Very cool.
Thanks y’all 🤙🏻🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
So much work and care in maintaining the aircraft. 🇺🇸
Incredible precision at work.
VERY COOL VIDEO!! 👍💯🇺🇲♥️♥️♥️
Great Outstanding clip Guys, Outstanding top work you guys are doing there to keep the American Aviation history alive for many flying years to come,. 💯👌💪
~1:38 - how is it I’ve been a lifelong fanatic of the B52 & NEVER knew the nose pivoted up like that?!?!?!!? How have I never seen a photo of this & why am I only seeing this in 2024????? 😭🤯😭🫣
I grew up around b52's as a kid. They are huge!!! The skill alone to back that into a warehouse is insane.
All the great performers I have worked with are fuelled by a personal dream.
To get out of the military ASAP?
Great video.
By going beyond your own problems and taking care of others, you gain inner strength, self-confidence, courage, and a greater sense of calm.
Anyone notice the alien 👽 in the cockpit? 😂
I thought he was the test pilot
@@markh3279 same thing right?🤣
😀🤭 mana ada Alen ngimpi kali yeeh..🤦
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Migrant... get with it...
I love the BUFF! bombloader here
Very impressive.
With these kinds of capabilities, it suggests they could keep those planes in the air indefinitely.
Amazing and impressive
It is great to see women working in this repair facility using their training and skills, after all, women manned the factories and built aircraft bombers and fighters during WW2 and it is refreshing seeing women here now well doing their bit with their knowledge and skills.
Lo sappiano che nei film siete i più forti😮😮😮
Very interesting about the B-52
The Old Man, in for a wash & brush-up.....EXCELLENT....another few DECADES of Service!!! LONG may they SOLDIER ON!
I kinda understand the need for ads, but youtube crapping on your viewers afterwards? Might wanna see to that.
BTW, excellent video, when I can keep up. :)
I can handle ads, but since youtube is liberal lovers, and bernie pops up, can darwin help?
Stationed there for 2 years. The base is HUGE!
Oh ok 😂😂
3:06 Buddy didn’t know they were filming this day 😹🖖🏼🇺🇸
Or maybe he did and did it on purpose.
I live in moore, and see the buffs coming in and out, along with B1's...nice change from the constant E3's😂
I always wanted to be an A&P I love this video man love to work at that facilities
I'm surprised that mechanic had to ask if a "leak and ops check " were required to be written up in the 781A...it certainly is, Olie!
My mom lives about 3 blocks north of Tinker AFB just off Air Deport Road in Mid-West City. Always enjoy the jets flying over when I go to visit, & took my grandson to an air show there a few years ago.
A lot of old school work takes place in here hand manufacturing parts for the outer skin and even internal framing its bloody amazing what they can achieve
The women with the blue tshirt and black hair is 🔥🔥🔥
That M984 Wrecker is no Foden. Bring on Mr. Hewes and supervisor Ted!
Ah good old TAFB. Worked as a parts pusher on the TF33 engine line during the nineties. Major flashback seeing this video. Still see the B-52s fly out from there occasionally.
I gotta hand it to someone, they are on the ball with this type of maintenance and upgrade, love to see Americans working on American machinery, in an American factory, now, if we could only restore our private sector industry, and make it strong and competitive, the steel industry, and related offshoots, the aircraft industry, the Auto industry, and new industries like rockets, armored vehicles, heavy machinery for mass industrial applications, ie: the machines that build other machines.
my plane! 0021 was mine in 86-87, ki sawyer mi... its two years older than me and its still flying. that's crazy.
Tinker is one of the largest employers in the state of Oklahoma. 835 homes and a neighborhood school north of the main runway were condemned and removed about 25 years ago to guarantee safe approach and take off corridors for the facility. This was after the Air Force threatened to close the base because it presented too great a hazard to its neighbors if they remained.
Now, fortunately, much of the property surrounding the installation is government owned, federal or state, to prevent future safety issues and allows for expansion. Having four other major bases/installations nearby doesn’t hurt either.
This is what I'd like to see in America. Stop depending on other countries to bring up parts, build your own.
Army air corp built a facility similar to this in 1942 at Austin Texas to repair B-17 bombers. My father worked there as a civilian employee. After the war it became Bergstrom AFB. When the USAF closed it in the early nineties it became Austin International airport in 1999.
Not fond of the "broken B-52" term. I worked these for sooo many years. They are amazing!
Well, after 20 years in the bone yard, and arriving on many trucks in kit form with empennage and wings completely missing, broken is probably the politest way of saying that it was completely FUBAR
I was crew cheif on the B-52G this aircraft is greatest ever built.
The B52 my second favorite bird. The first is the F14A. I worked on Tomcats when I was a sailor.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
A G Model. Nice. I was a Crew Chief on one for six years. 58-0173, 320th Bomb Wing (h) SAC.
Im from 🇪🇹 Ethiopia
3 aliens 👽 👽👽
I'm suprised the airframe is still good after 70 plus years
Sería maravilloso que vuestro canal tuviera la opción de escuchar doblado al español. Creo hablar en nombre de mucha gente que os estaría eternamente agradecida.
Is there anything more American than an 80 year old jet! Being worked on by a couple big ol’black dudes couple big ol’ bearded white boys and everyone in between! I saw a couple of Oriental decent all working under the Stars and Stripes hanging from the roof!
We are along way from being perfect but we are by far the BEST nation on earth! Gosh, I love the USA
They are not broken. We have ten thousand airplanes carefully stored in Tucson Arizona. If we have need for any, they are completely restored to new, rectified and flown to wherever they are needed.
Don't think the back up beeper would be wise in battle. Lol
Yeah Depot maintenance is incredible
You heard of that show, "this 'ol house", well this is "this 'ol airplane".
This should have narration, so you can watch the pictures, instead of reading.
FABULOUS !
wow
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olha um carburador de B52. Nunca tinha visto um na vida 7:52
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Hope they going to update/upgrade the polluting diesel engines on it?
I love how they fix up these older planes and make there are still dependable still usable and the right thing is being done if it isn't broken and it works don't fix it
Sorry if it's been posted earlier, but there are pilots who've flown exactly the same B-52 as their fathers. Not the same B-52 version, but exactly the same aircraft!
We use to go pick up our KC-135s at Tinker after the aircraft received depot overhauls. I worked engines and spent an lot of time in “Engine Country”.
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
1 screw at the time everything is new ,great looking fortress they are here to serve another 30 years.
I bet the majority of those shown working on the B-52's were born after the air-frame they're working on was first in the air... pretty amazing.
It wouldn't be hard I think the last one was delivered in Oct 1962 which if it's still flying makes it just over 62 years old
Ser checado al 100% en todo
The Oklahoma facility looks incredible.
Is that the first B-52 to be fitted with the new Rolls Royce engines?
No.
Those are Pratt & Whitney J-57-43-WP's. (Water injected turbojets). Ask and ex crew chief how easy it was to change a water pod valve.
No those are rolls the video even said so
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Judy, I'm sorry you missed this😢
Man, an unlimited budget sure is neet!
It's hardly unlimited, Mr. I don't know how to spell 'neat.'
Are the replacement B-52 engines to be installed in the restored plane?
Those boys at the end didn't grow up. They are still playing in the mud. 😂😅😂
Givin the choice to ride along in any aircraft - this would be mine and no , I do not feel the need for speed lol