🇺🇸 The Awesome B-1 Bomber Sets Car Alarms Off on Takeoff at RAF Fairford
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- Опубліковано 17 вер 2016
- The mighty powerful Rockwell B-1 Lancer bomber seen here taking off from RAF Fairford on Monday 5th September 2016, making the air vibrate, causing all the car alarms in the car park to go off. Tremendous power from those four huge afterburning engines! Great watching the burners slowly ignite from the rear perspective as the power was increased. I noticed the light up process was similar to the Tornado jet.
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I was stationed at RAF Fairford from 1995 to 1998. When we had Lancers TDY there, all the field mice would flood the base housing area to escape the noise. We had mice in our house all week.
I love it.
*lol* that is some funny and interesting bit of information .... made my day :D
Built to government specs no doubt. 🙄
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The Rockwell B1 bomber is probably one of the most beautifully designed aircraft ever built.
Eh, still not as good as the Concorde.
@@sturmgeschutze3070 No doubt Concorde is a beautiful aircraft. But I prefer the Rockwell B1 design. Concorde is only beautiful high in the sky. It is just ugly with the droop-nose configuration on the ground.
Yes, it is a bit ugly with the droop snoot.
The 2707’s droop snoot “attempt” just looked stupid.
@@sturmgeschutze3070 I agree with you. To be honest I wish the Boeing 2707 looked like a bigger version of the Rockwell B1. That would have been amazing.
That would be quite nice.
By far the loudest thing I have ever heard in my life. Saw one at an air show in Wichita Kansas. It did a very steep vertical takeoff just to show you it's power. I was screaming and I could not hear myself. Not only that, but I could not feel myself screaming because the B1 created so much "vibration", all I could feel and hear was the B1. It was Awesome!
My dad was a B-1 pilot such an amazing plane!!! I remember watching them takeoff at night with full afterburner going...something you will never forget!!!
2:05 - _that afterburner seems pretty we-_ 2:09 - _nevermind_
Looks like how mom turns on a gas stove
😂LOL
When I was in training to become a crew chief at Sheppard AFB, there was an air show and the thunderbirds were practicing their routine. They noticed us watching and performed a low pass, it was so loud it set off every car alarm in the parking lot
I remember while leaving a flight show a while back getting on the highway when this plane took off. Nothing could’ve prepared the other drivers on how loud this beast is. It was one of those sounds that you feel in the deepest nether regions that absolutely fills the landscape. For a moment I could imagine this is what Gabriel’s horn would sound like when his host charges. A beast...
I think the BONE is the prettiest bomber in the fleet.
I wonder how fast one of those jets would heat up my garage? And, I wonder where my garage would end up landing?
When you put your change of clothes over the heating vent before you put them on x500,000,000
key west
I don't think your garage will be landing.
However, I imagine pieces of your garage will be landing *everywhere*
Your garage would probably be so done that you could inhale it
@@JohnDoe-on6ru and distance whise due to throttle I would say around a good few miles away depending on the size of the shed, would you agree?
The B-1 and the Tu-160 are the two most incredible looking aircraft ever built. Will always be my favorites
Look at how those afterburner's ignite. Great vid.
got goosebumps when they lit up
Velo1010 thought I was the only one!
goosebumps? nah I got a raging hard on!
Yup. Very beautiful!
The far left one seemed to have trouble lighting.
I don't mean to keep commenting but I'll tell you I really appreciate the video without music I love the sound of those machines...
7j6 out
The loudest sound I've ever heard was also from a B1 Lancer. I was driving home form work, was starting to get a little dark and I saw a shadowy figure on the runway of Long Beach regional airport. I recognized the figure and quickly veered to take an exit that would bring me to a parking lot besides the runway. I got out of the car and started recording with my phone as I stood near a security gate. Had enough time to see and hear it idle and do it's last checks before full afterburner/re-ignition. As it was getting dark, the fire/light from the afterburners was super visible and extended perhaps 200 feet behind the aircraft. I was only about 100 yards away. As it passed me, my ears started to hurt and I began to wince. I couldn't take it anymore and had to use my phone to cover my ear and my free hand to cover the other. Car alarms were going off all over the place. It was probably;y leaving from the Lockheed-Martin maintenance facility which uses the Long Beach airport.
Thanks for sharing the memory.
I had a very similar experience!! When I was 13 my dad took me to a small county/regional airport for an airshow-- it was incredibly boring (as you can expect) and we left a little bit early.. as we were pulling out on the county road my father spotted an aircraft approaching out of the corner of his eye and he made an abrupt U-turn. As he whipped his truck around, he pulled over to the shoulder and told me to get out and watch and right as we both got out of the vehicle, a B-1B came over and did a full afterburner flyby of this small airshow and I will never forget how loud, how intense, and being able to smell the jet fuel after it had cleared us at about 100 feet. You could hear the car alarms from the regional airport parking lot going off as well and It made quite a mark on 13 year old me... thanks for bringing back a fond memory.
Living in Canada it's nice to see a few odd Planes now and then ..My first was the Concorde landing in Toronto Back in the 80's and 90's and then the Antonov An-225 Mriya cargo plane But living close to a war museum We get the Lancaster Mk X flying over the house ..and you don't have to look up to know its her and her Merlin engines flying over head..Wonderful sound she is normally followed by a B-25 and a Spitfire wing to wing Few years back we had a treat of a B-17 B-25 and a B-29 (FIFI) with the lancaster headed from the airshow
If you felt pain, it means the level of it taking off was at least 120dBSPL. For reference, your loud alarm clock tends to be around 80dBSPL. Every time you add 3dB you double the perceived loudness. If you were to experience 120dBSPL for longer than 7 seconds, you would have permanent hearing damage. Next time, watch something like this from within your car to protect your hearing. 160dBSPL and above, your eardrums rupture instantaneously.
By far the loudest bird I ever encountered was the Grumman EA-6B Prowler on the cats. When they added two seats and extended the A-6 airframe the exhaust was changed and somehow made it louder and denser. Even with ear plugs and Micky mouse ears at full launch thrust the noise would make me sick to my stomach.
My entire annual salary burnt on that takeoff run. 🤑 Sweet
Cory Allen LOL! they’d be limited to a soft taco, that supreme breaks the bank
Lol probably on taxi
XD 30min reserve
What kind of doctor are you? 😂
@@vishe307 I have a red hat.
Proud to say that I had the privilege to not only serve in the USAF, but opportunity to work maintenance on the B-1B for 4 years. It was very advanced for that time, and an amazing experience to be apart of it!
In my opinion, the B-1 is probably the loudest aircraft on earth. That takeoff will rock your world and make you wish you were deaf. Love this gorgeous bird.
hartley81848184 I was at Tinker in 2000 taking a combat mobility course and I'm pretty sure I've never heard a louder plane take off.
If you think thats loud, just wait till you hear a TU-95 taking off
TU-95 is not even close to the same volume as a B-1 lol
A turbo prop louder than an afterburner jet! Really?
actually i remember of reading about US pilots who intercepted the Tu-95 and said that they would hear the sound of the the turbo prop over the sound of their own jet.
Even more impressive than the four-afterburner takeoff, is what you experience when one performs a low level high speed pass. The B-1 is actually capable of reaching supersonic speed at low level, and as a consequence, if you see one heading your way, it's eerily silent initially because it's leaving its own sound behind. Then, it passes over your head, and a veritable tsunami of noise hits you with enough force to trigger cardiac arrhythmia in those with weak hearts. I experienced this at RAF Mildenhall in 2000, and the wall of noise it can generate once the sound cone hits you has to be experienced ... it wouldn't have to drop bombs on some people, it would simply induce the urge to surrender from the thunderous din.
Oh, and the outing at Mildenhall in 2000 also demonstrated another of its party tricks ... pulling into a 45° climb straight after takeoff, and accelerating to the point where the wings needed to be swept back, before disappearing into the cloud deck that on the day in question was at about 11,000 ft. Apparently, if the need ever arises, it's capable of pulling this trick with a hold full of JDAMs - a 20 ton payload. If you're foolish enough to walk behind one when it lights up for takeoff, your pieces will be found about two miles downrange after the thrust has sent you flying.
They've actually used sonic booms tactically in combat before. Not the B1 but one of the figher craft. I wanna say it was either an F14 or F18. Pretty cool stuff
If this thing produces enough sound to use that as a weapon, then *nothing* will remain of you should you enter the wash from this hurricane of an airplane....
I saw this at mildenhall airshow too, your explanation was spot on, couldn't hear it till it passed and then OH MY GOD. loudest thing I have ever experienced. I live in Ely, I'm often at mildenhall and lakenheath.
danny miester
I’ve had a eurofighter kick afterburner 300 feet away from me.
Mach one, supersonic. Looked back where it was. The eurofighter was about two kilometres away. Barely a speck.
This sounds like a modern day nazgul
I grew up within a couple miles of Dyess AFB, Texas, where some of these are stationed. I have tons of memories of relaxing in the Texas evening, watching these fly over and seeing the four beautiful purple tails ascend into the sky. Every time, it felt like I was watching it go home to the stars.
Just unreal.
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As I sit here, in Abilene Texas, 4 miles from Dyess AFB runway, the B1B never fails to amaze me.
Born and raised in Abilene. At Dyess when the 1st B-1 ceremoniously flew in.
Can you imagine having the honor of just one time being in one of these during take off. Proud to be an American.
When I was overseas, these things were lined up on the flightline next to my birds. Only thing that separated us were the blast walls. These things are SO DAMN LOUD. They'd frequently do engine runs while I was trying to do maintenance. Just a level of loudness on an entirely different level.
Don't let this video fool you, you'r not hearing 10% of the noise this bad boy can make thru your computer speakers.
I’ve heard a eurofighter kick reheat three hundred feet away from me. I know the sound.
Can agree, had one fly over my house once, probably with afterburners and wow, never heard a plane come close to how loud it was, F-22 or B2 is like whispering compared to the b1
O.o LOL
It’s pretty damn loud nevertheless
Boy, he was heavy. Really awesome. My B-1 story is pretty memorable. I was fueling a Beech Baron from a fuel truck in between t-hangar rows in Michigan. It was my weekend job in the early 1990's in my hometown, as I was in a 4 year Bachelor's Degree/commercial pilot program an hr. away during the school week. I had a company walkie talkie on me as I covered fuel requests all over the airport, which had a 10,000' main runway. The truck idling and the pto fuel pump noise was not exactly quiet, as well as other aircraft and the echo factor from between the metal t-rows. Other than that, though, it was a slow afternoon and I was still able to make out the conversation from the scanner on the truck's dashboard while fueling the wing tanks. I could hear air traffic control talking to someone inbound but not the specifics. That is when I heard the beginnings of unfamiliar engine noise...and we ramp rats could tell the subtle differences between all the various types of turbine engines. Ya just get good at it after a while. Anyway, the noise grew louder and louder until the earth shook and a sense of how fast this thing was moving became palpable. It was over very quickly and I was not in a position to be able to see the sky or horizon or anything. The sound appeared to move skyward very quickly and grew to deafening proportions compared to anything else I had ever heard (F-4's, F-14's, Lear 24's, Lockheed Jetstar 1's, etc). I shook my head and cringed as my walkie talkie erupted with a "Holy Moses...Tim, did you see that?!" I could hear ATC talking now on the scanner to the aircraft in callsign fashion and complimenting him on his climb rate, so I knew I missed something rare and cool. I said, "No...what did I miss?" My coworker excitedly shouted back, "B-1, right off the deck, wings swept all the way back, full afterburners, all the way to the end then straight up into the cloud deck!" The stratus layer that day was a good 6-7,000' up. The expletives I shouted then were not with my mic keyed. I was so bummed I missed it and jealous of my coworker that I needed to vent a bit before keying my mic and saying, "Nope, I missed it, but my ears are bleeding."
I saw a B1 demo in a air show at Miramar air station years ago. Besides the Blue Angels flying that day, that was the highlight of the show. So amazing.
I remember at the tucson air show the B-1 lancer was flying about 300 feet above us and car horns started going off it was the loudest sound ive ever heard
I grew up around several military bases as the son of a USAF pilot. The last one I remember seeing was about 100' above some pine trees while I was driving to school. Just another day. But it still blew my skirt up. Never gets old. Oh and if you ever had the old radar detectors long before laser, you could pick up on their radar signal...or they were beading you for practice, heh.
Nathalie Roy next to my concord lol I'd break windows with the sonic boom 💥
I did my 20 years as a Air Force firefighter and have been around just about every kind of aircraft, stateside, overseas and the areas of "conflict", the the B1 is by far the loudest aircraft I have ever heard at full take off thrust, they'll do a great job of rattling the wax out of your ears. The Tornado and F-111 will do a good job too at full afterburner takeoff or low passes, just ask anyone that lived around RAF Upper Heyford before it closed in the early 90's, wakey wakey as they buzzed their houses at 100% afterburner during war games at 0300. On the opposite of the spectrum the A37 Screaming Mimi used overseas by the Germans will make your ears ache from the high pitch. Its no wonder many people that spend years on the flight line with these animals have some sort of hearing loss when they retire, at least that's what I tell my GF ;)
And you or your teammates were probably on extra attention when the B1B's sortied, too...
I was at Heyford in the 80’s. Those F-111’s would rattle the dorms from 3 miles away.
Easily one of the most exciting planes humans have ever built :D
Great content as always bob
Absolutely. Thanks, glad you enjoyed it
That's a Dyess AFB, TX bird. I was sitting outside the base the day the first Bone arrived in Abiline. I was stationed down the road 90 miles at Goodfellow AFB, TX. It's amazing to see and hear.
It got old real fast though. lol. Used to live in Abilene myself as my brother in law was in the airforce and I would stay with them every summer.
I still remember when a B-1 overflew the 2001 Cleveland Air Show ... and IT ... WAS ... *LOUD!!!*
I was innocently driving along I-20 - or maybe I-10 through Texas back in '91 or so...a B1-b pilot saw fit to buzz me while doing something like WARP 19. Like 50 feet off the ground. That was...cool.
I remember this one air show at Andrews there was an actual SR-71 that showed up. It was loud as shit!
fighter5583 My dad had a neat little minox "spy" camera picture he took of an SR-71 in 1967 at Utapao air base in Thailand during the Vietnam conflict. One of the very few pictures I'd seen of it taking off. Most were of it in the air. He said they'd been warned not to photograph it and the flightline was cleared of almost all other personnel. He was chief of that B-52 bomber branch there.
When we lived at Hickam afb in Honolulu HA. later on, the defected MiG-25 pilot and his plane came through, complete with U2 escort. I did not see the MiG! I did watch the U2 take off. Carter in air force one was present. Ha ha. Carter. ! ...phffft!
skeggjold gunnr Hopefully they didn't catch him taking photographs. If you were in the Soviet Union at the time, you'd be execute for doing that.
Grand Negus he died a few years ago and it all happened many years ago and he developed his own film - I waited until way after the plane was decommissioned to rat him out. His contributions to aerospace field far outweigh this understandable photo. I think my sister has the photo now. It really is a neat shot and very unique.
Awesome doppler effect as it takes off down the runway, it sounds as if it's throttling down :) Cool
My secondary MOS in the Army was a 16S (Singer gunner), so part of my job was to identify an array of aircraft from all over the world. Mix that, with my Granddad in the Army Air Corps as a B17 door gunner, and my dad F104 crew chief, creates a huge fan of aircraft in me.
This is an absolute awesome video of the B1! Great job on the capture! Absolutely one of my favorite bombers, and have seen them a total of 3 times in person. Never get enough of the Lancer!!
Singer gunner? What did you shoot....sewing machines? ;)
Ok, that was awesome to see those afterburners lighting up and those heat waves coming off of them. Super amazing, I would love to see one of those taking off live.
kinda gives you a patriotic feeling watching that awesome piece of equipment
If you think that's loud you should hear my ex-wife!
I challenge yours with mine.
@@brianbaker3767 Super fun thread! Can I add my ex husband to the mix? Or the sound of cranky twin babies at 0300?
My ex husband was so loud I invited the police to come over to test him with their decibel meter! 😵✈😎🤘🔥💨
@@maggierezac5820 sure we can compare ex's but babies are innocent. 🤗
@@brianbaker3767 Close call tho, 30+ years later & I'm still trying to determine the 'Evil Twin'! Have an outstanding day!😎🤘🔥💨
@@maggierezac5820 hahahahaha!! Good luck!
OUTSTANDING! Wing tip vortices and everything! LOVE the afterburners.
Recently the Bones have been equipped with the Sniper targeting pod, allowing the bomber to act as an ISR asset, providing realtime video and data to ground forces.
During a B-1’s loiter time over the battlefield, when they aren’t providing kinetic support, they are guiding other air assets, said Maj. Craig Winters, 37 EBS weapons system officer. “We can become the communications node with other aircraft such as the [F-15E] Strike Eagle or the A-10 [Thunderbolt], working with their operators to coordinate shows of force.”
When releasing munitions, B-1 crews previously relied on air-to-ground radar and joint tactical air controllers for guidance. Recently, however, B-1’s have been fitted with a Sniper Advanced Targeting Pod, which allows crews to view the AOR with greater clarity. With it, “we’re seeing everything that’s happening on the ground and can provide feedback to JTACs and other players on the field,” Corrigan said. taylorempireairways.com/2009/11/lancers-in-afghanistan/
It's really a multi-billion dollar Bird-dog.
There we have it. Thanks a lot for the info!
its treally a bird-dog or a burgdog? er..
Is this in tandem with Globalhawks?
low and fast i agree so underrated that takes skill i wish i had
......BUT... despite your stuff at the end... was pretty cool to see those 4 Ge's light up!!!!
Great wingtip vortices!
No kidding! You can see the heat waves coming off the wingtips also.
Ain't physics a gas!
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Yep!!
Mike B wow. Gonna have to show this to my students
Man now I really want to see the mighty bone up close at full afterburner that’s the wonderful sound of freedom right there
Thx for posting bob
That bird is from Dyess AFB here in Abilene Tx. I live about 10 miles from base and you can hear that thing all over town when it hits the afterburners. Dyess AFB got it's name from Lt. Col Edwin Dyess that survived the Batan Death March only to get killed in a P-38 crash in California. Col. Dyess is from a small town about 40 miles from Abilene, Albany Tx.
Karin Lefevre loud n proud full reheat no MERCY. IF IT Ain't ROUGH IT Ain't RIGHT. SEMPER FI 3D RECON TO THE DEATH 💀
Was at Dyess long ago before these, only B-52's and got to go through one in hanger as my uncle lived on base. Yes they had a armed guards on duty that knew my uncle and a 9 or 10 year old was no threat.
That piece of kit is a Sniper Targeting Pod
Yep, it's a USAF AN/AAQ-33, built by Lockheed-Martin, it's the latest Sniper Advanced Targeting Pod - Sensor Enhancement (Sniper-SE) version, which provides five times the engagement range versus the old AN/AAQ-14 LANTIRN pod. On the B1-B Lancer the Sniper-SE pod allows the bird to identify, target, and destroy ground targets as small as a person from *outside* the range that the target could hear the jet engine noise of the aircraft, *scary* !!!
Oooh! Them burners lighting up is pure GOLD!
I was stationed at Tinker AFB in the 90's and the B-1 was there doing all sorts of avionics testing. I was a crew member on the E-3 so I had a flight-line access badge and when they where doing testing a few of us drove out to the perimeter road just past the runway. One day they where doing full military power buster climbs strait up at the end of the runway we where on. Let me tell you even with foam ear-plugs AND David Clarks on the noise was so loud it literally pounded your soul into the ground and asked for seconds! Such a beautiful air frame!
As my DI loved to say, "Out-fucking-standing!!: When I was stationed at Sheppard, AFB, I had a sister stationed at Dyess, AFB. I would go visit her just to get a look at these beauties scream down the runway. The thing I miss most about being on Active Duty, is the noise of all of the Air Forces jets.
One of the biggest things I miss as well. USAF 8 years, Ground Rat!
I miss the sonic booms we used to get more often here in Hinkley, near Edwards AFB. And I haven't served in the military yet.
Live about 20 or 30 miles from Ellsworth AFB and you can hear the B-1B's taking off, even from that distance. They're quite loud and they're often referred to as "Dakota Thunder" around these parts.
It sure is an immense racket when these beasts take off
Great video, unbelievable power of those engines
Aye Carumba, that was awesome!!! What a machine. See that coming at you, you know your time is up.
SO MUCH FREEDOM IN THIS VIDEO
more than 70% of the world's wars are due to religions conflicts, so next time think twice before posting a comment.
Dude, I'm an atheist lol
Not the ones the US are involved in! Thats for oil and the petrodollar.
+Stealth Cat
Ok, I am literally looking around me right now and I still see no God
Trust me, there IS a G-D. Feb 27th 2012 I died twice from a heart attack while at work. I saw Him twice that night! It is not a matter of IF you believe but WHEN you believe! Funny you say you are looking around and dont see Him. There is oxygen all around you and yet you believe it exists.....
That one take off exceeded every single COW FART that was recorded since the very beginning of cow fart records began.
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Your COW FART comment had me cracking up. The politicians, in California, years ago, proposed that the farmers develop a capture system of some sort for cow farts. Arrrrrrgh! Smh to the 10th power.
amazing takeoff
luv those afterburner effects
Too good!! Awesome upload
In my opinion, B1 looks so much better than B2...
How could anyone give this video a ‘thumbs down?’
Great angle to catch the afterburners!
No....Bob's My Uncle! ;) Thanks for all the cool plane footage!
Seen these many times at airshows they really do shake every bone in your body at take off......awesome power.
Look how the birds are looking at it 😂 "damn that's a big bird!"
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Imagine this beast and the vulcan side by side
I experienced that precise scenario at RAF Mildenhall Joshua back around 89/90 when both were parked side by side running up their engines prior to display, needless to say i think the crews were trying to outdo one another.This to me was a real highlight even though they weren't airborne, wouldv'e been great to see them both take off and display together.
Bye bye eardrums…
@@theicemanleaveth right?! Haha
That would be illogical.
WTF ... This has got to be the best B1 video EVER .
Daaaaammmnnnn the sound was alien.
And have got to have broken some secrecy code or the other.
WOOWWWWEEEE.
Just awesome
Saw it many times in nd and in canada in mb airshows
Truly spectacular
When at idle thrust it sounds like an F-14
If this thing went to airshows I think it would semi satisfy the Vulcan absence.
It's been to EAA in Wisconsin.
Arguably the most beautiful, angry machine ever to grace the sky. At full burn it sounds like it is tearing a hole in space and time. A truly phenomenal aircraft. Big thumbs up to the U.S from England.
B1B. Absolutely awesome and beautiful
Call me a heretic but as a former F-16 engine mechanic I still prefer the sound of a Pratt&Whitney R-2800 radial engine or a Rolls-Royce Merlin. Bearcats, Mustangs and Corsairs, oh my.
Don't forget the mammoth R3300 that powered the A1 through 2 wars.
Allisons and Merlins at a tractor-pull! to see these at high RPMs at the end of their runs! 30ft. away from your wooden bleacher seat!, digging slots a foot deep with say 5ft. dia. tires!! your chest moves in and out like a subwoofer!! forget your ears! covering your ears with your hands doesn't help a lot, rather, jamming your fingertips into your ear canals is your best bet!
But does the Corsair hold a candle to the Hellcat?
Going to an air show in a few weeks and the F4U is going to fly I can't wait to see one in the air.
GE F110s from an F-14D for me
Thats an AN/AAQ-33 SNIPER Advanced Targeting Pod.
Great shot of him going through all the zones and full afterburner!!
Awesome aircraft! Love this video, excellent footage!
HOLY MOTHER OF GOD!!!
Its from 7th Wing Dyess AFB,Texas
That rumble is friggin amazing!
I used to see and hear and feel these beasts all the time in the 1980s in palmdale. I lived a few blocks away on 11th st e and Q10. Freaking ground shakers, even louder than the AR. Beautiful birds
So many eagles screaming 😵 Lol. The Bone is definitely one of my favorite aircraft.
What a sexy bird. I would love to have flown one.
Wow! This is really awesome! What a great view on this powerful engines! What a power! Liked! Greetz
Stunning video
Sound of freedom
The Xb-70 Valkari was probably louder it had six engines.
I'm with stupid: Missed the chance to see/hear XB-70b when she landed @ Wright-Patt prior to retirement to the Museum of the USAF.
Did witness takeoff and landings of SR-71 @ the flightline on AreaA in the late 70's, before she too was retired to AreaC. Hearing protection orders were not optional during ops. Bellows pocket crammed full of disposable earplugs, to be given to ANY body on/near the flightline.
Per WPAFB (actual) orders: Personnel can ask anyone as to why you don't have your hearing protection with/on you! You're guests of the establishment, and since we're responsible for your welfare on base, we can ask that you follow our requests. We'll strive to ask nicely, yet this remains standing order.
30 something son still has/uses my issue (older than him) headset.
what a machine, remember seeing it fly with the b52 at an airshow when i was a kid and every car alarm in the place going off, I think it was at Mildenhall cars were parked alongside runway... the ground shook!
Beautiful! I was in an A-6 Intruder squadron in my Navy days.
Look at that ridiculous amount of Murica coming from that thing!!!
All four gas rings on 🤣😂🤣 love it!
I was on base at nellis...you knew it when a b1 bomber took off...awesome..nothing else like it....
Amazing video. Thank you for not putting music to it !
definitely one of the most menacingly beautiful aircraft ever made.... definitely says "theres a right end and a wrong end of this plane, and if youre on the wrong end, things are going badly for you..."
Sometimes B 1's take off from Las Vegas International Airport and they're overwhelmingly noisy!!!!!!!!!
My god! What an epic machine! Glad you caught it, was very tempted to head down myself :)
AWESOME!!! Love to have seen it myself. Nice camera work,
It really takes a long time to take off. Even with afterburner.
Did you notice how much elevator deflection it took to raise the nose on takeoff?
I was in the 5th grade and lived on Langley AFB and at a show. One of these almost went full vertical off the run way. Covering your ears did nothing to help the sound.
Zee googles, zey do nothing!
unbelievable vid, great job
I was an Instrumentation/Autopilot Technician on the B1-B Lancer at Grand Forks AFB, ND from 1990-1994. I witnessed Mach .95 flybys and many, many full afterburner takeoffs! This is what I found to describe what you saw: "What is that piece of equipment hanging on the front starboard side?" It's not "hanging". Those are the SMCS vanes:
"There are small movable vanes made of composites alongside the nose, with an anhedral droop of 30 degrees, referred to in an absolutely opaque way as the "structural mode control system (SMCS)" foreplanes. They were fitted because the long B-1B fuselage tends to flex fore-and-aft in low level flight. The SMCS vanes are linked to a set of accelerometers near the center and nose of the bomber under computer control to ensure a smooth ride at low level, increasing crew comfort and airframe life." (www.airvectors.net/avb1.html)
They are winglets that keep the "coke bottle" plane from stressing itself too much in the middle. Basically, they keep the plane from bending in the middle too much.
I was waiting for a deer to start running across through the exhaust and come out venison on the other side.
I think the deer might be too well-done, the B1-B is nicknamed "The Bone", so bones are probably the only thing that remained of the deer shot out the exhaust, lol. :)
Thats nothing. At Elsworth AFB..south dakota. I was their at the base when a B1B took off and went vertical ..straight up . Belive it or not.
The lancer was always one of my favorites
Astonishing video, and unlike many others, without the usual heavily distorted sound ̶̶ Brilliant! Thank-you for sharing.
I clearly remember the awesome, ear-piercing sound of these aircraft when many years ago I worked in an office very close to runway 34 of USMCS El Toro, in California. The whole building would shake and rumble, almost as if a minor temblor had struck! Like many readers, I agree the B-1 is probably the loudest aircraft I have ever heard, including Concorde, which would emit a deafening thunderous sound when it ignited its afterburners taking-off from London’s Heathrow.
Ah, the sound of freedom...
There's 10,000$ in jp-8 down the drain in a matter of seconds lol
That's the reason why they only run the afterburners for a brief period during takeoff then extinguish them once their at a curtain altitude
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When 089 was with the 116 Bomb Wing, we issued her JP-8. It's been since then that the USAF went to Jet-A with the same static guard additive as JP-8 because Jet-A is two cents cheaper per gallon than 8.
I remember seeing a B-1 for the first time at Fairford when it did a quite respectable short take-off.This was in short order outdone by the Vulcan, but the cherry on the cake was provided by Trubshaw in the Concorde (having stopped by with a few passengers, the lucky bastards) who upon departure hauled the Concorde off the deck into seriously tight climbing turn In a distance that left us utterly gobsmacked.
seen these Bombers everyday while working the oilfields in Montana - we were working in their training areas for flying low..... Got buzzed a few times... Cool stuff!