MAKING NIGHTMARES B-52 STRATOFORTRESS HEAVY BOMBER LANDS 69TH BOMB SQUADRON MINOT AFB • RAF FAIRFORD
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- Опубліковано 21 тра 2024
- A B-52H Stratofortress of the 69th Bomb Squadron "NIGHTHAWKS" from Minot Air Force Base arrives at RAF Fairford on the 22nd May 2024.
The B-52H Stratofortress is a long-range, nuclear and conventional heavy bomber that can perform a variety of missions. The bomber can fly at high subsonic speeds at altitudes reaching 50,000 feet. It has an unrefueled combat range in excess of 8,800 miles. The B-52H can carry precision guided ordnance with worldwide precision navigation.
The 5th Bomb Wing (5 BW) is a United States Air Force unit assigned to Air Force Global Strike Command's Eighth Air Force. It is stationed at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota where this B-52H came from with callsign PENCE 21. The wing is also the host unit at Minot. The 5 BW is one of only two active duty Boeing B-52H Stratofortress wings in the United States Air Force, the other being the 2nd Bomb Wing at Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana.
The squadron was first activated on 15 January 1941 at Langley Field, Virginia as the 69th Bombardment Squadron, one of the three original bombardment squadrons of the 38th Bombardment Group. The squadron trained with Martin B-26 Marauders, but also flew Douglas B-18 Bolos. In June 1941, the squadron moved to Jackson Army Air Base, Mississippi. After being inactivated on 31 December 1993, it was reactivated on 3 September 2009 at Minot Air Force Base, and assigned to the 5th Bomb Wing.
Specs
Crew: 5 (pilot, copilot, weapon systems officer, navigator, electronic warfare officer)
Length: 159 ft 4 in (48.5 m)
Wingspan: 185 ft 0 in (56.4 m)
Height: 40 ft 8 in (12.4 m)
Wing area: 4,000 sq ft (370 m2)
Airfoil: NACA 63A219.3 mod root, NACA 65A209.5 tip
Empty weight: 185,000 lb (83,250 kg)
Gross weight: 265,000 lb (120,000 kg)
Max takeoff weight: 488,000 lb (221,323 kg)
Fuel capacity: 312,197 lb (141,610 kg), 47,975 U.S. gal (181,610 L)
Zero-lift drag coefficient: 0.0119 (estimated)
Drag area: 47.60 sq ft (4.42 m2)
Aspect ratio: 8.56
Powerplant: 8 × Pratt & Whitney TF33-P-3/103 turbofans, 17,000 lbf (76 kN) thrust each
Performance
Maximum speed: 650 mph (1,050 km/h, 560 kn)
Cruise speed: 509 mph (819 km/h, 442 kn)
Combat range: 8,800 mi (14,200 km, 7,600 nmi)
Ferry range: 10,145 mi (16,327 km, 8,816 nmi)
Service ceiling: 50,000 ft (15,000 m)
Rate of climb: 6,270 ft/min (31.85 m/s)
Wing loading: 120 lb/sq ft (586 kg/m2)
Thrust/weight: 0.31
Lift-to-drag ratio: 21.5 (estimated)
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Oii Oii Ladies, gents and teddy bears, it was a fair old wait for this in the pouring rain and emotional weather but we got ‘em. Hope you enjoyed our video fresh from today’s aviation salmon counter. The iconic B-52H dropping in to RIDE HIGH. What a sound! Well, Fairford isn’t complete without the U-2 🤙🏼Drop us a line in the comments and don’t forget to click the LIKE button. If you love military aviation and like this video be sure to subscribe to our channel
Brilliant Nikos in emotional weather 👍👏
Ok i know the distance from Fairford to Coningsby. So that trip in emotional weather to be back for Lakenheath tomorrow. Sir i salute you 🫡 Great shots as always b-52 Sounds so good
Hi ted coningsby
Our good old B-52. By the time they are retired from service the design will be around 100 years old! She’s getting some new Rolls-Royce engines soon.
A sign of a good design , like Windows XP remained relevant and popular much longer than any other version , had to stop supporting it to force change
What a treat! That is what's special about Ted Coningsby Squadron, The effort Ted & Nikos go to, to bring this footage to us all is phenomenal. Out in all weathers & conditions, thank you ❤
This was a challenging, emotional, long wait Margo but it was worth it
A B52 and a U2 on a rainy day...thank you sir for your dedication!
Thanks David
i'm gonna be there in 2 months!!!!! also very bouncy first landing
Oohhhh yeah
Special! Super effort Ted and Nikos. Thank you ❤
Oiii oiii Margo thank you for the super thanks ❤️
You Nikos and Ted Coningsby are legends 😎😎 Thanks so much for braving the weather to bring this to us all OOH YEAH 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 5:49
Oii oiii Ian
A buff flew over us when I was in the RAF based in Gloucester going to land at Fairford. I thought the world was ending with the noise the whole world was shaking
"Through Storms", you certainly lived up to the motto brother.
Oii oiii Colin, absolutely lived up to the motto
The Buff is such an mistakable sound, I wonder what her new engines will sound like
YES 😃👍🏾 I can't wait to see the BUFF in action after the upgrade. Hopefully they sound more quiet
Special treat for us, thank you for your committed service @TedConingsby & Nikos.
Emotional weather yet again, thank you again.
Thanks Julie
What an absolute monster!
Lived 50 miles north of the Airbase, saw the B52's three to four times a week. They are a beast and fun to watch...
Wow, that is huge! And the U2 - what an unusual plane, and landing! Thanks Ted and Nikos for being out in that dreadful weather and bringing us this vid
Oii oiii Ellesee
Oh my gosh!!! I've always wanted to see a bomber in person. But I have to say Ty to Teddi and Niko's ty for posting of this amazing aircraft altho it has been unsettling weather but it's still a sight to behold. 🥰😊👍
Wow only with the TCS would you see these 2……cracking effort Nikos to hold out for this….thank you ❤️🫡
Oii Oii Captain A
Fantastic effort today Nikos, thank you so much for bringing us this special footage we otherwise wouldn’t get to see. Absolute treat, especially as it’s been such an emotional day. Brilliant work 🫡 Ohhhh yeah, let’s ride
Thanks Bex. Totally worth the wait in emotional weather too
The U-2 pilot is encapsulated in a literal space suit, severly imparing movement and visability. They can't see well out the side and not at all behind because of the hard space helmet. So when landing it's almost impossible to precisly judge when the main "unicycle" wheel touches. Hance the need for another U-2 pilot to chase the plane in a hot-rod Dodge Viper to talk the pilot down by radio.
The U-2 is amongs the hardest planes to fly.
Thanks for this cool information👍!
Oiii oiii Trespire. It is such a demanding and difficult aircraft to fly indeed. Pretty much an astronaut in there
Nice, well done on being out there in this terrible weather were all getting, lets hope it's better tomorrow
Thanks Chris
❤ Awesome 👍
Oii oiii Paul
Great footage!
Wow such a great noise, awesome plane 💪👌👍😍
Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! Top work Ted and Nikos! Absolute Heroes for getting footage!!!
Oiii oiii Dr Soda thanks man ooooooooohhhhhh yeahhhhhh
Epic Catch Ted Coningsby B-52H Absolutely awesome Thankyou for a long hard journey to catch these Beauty's.
Oiii oiii Tim thanks man. Glad you enjoyed
Amazing to see a plane that's almost 100 years old still active. Amazing bit of tech
Every time I see a B52 either in the flesh, film, picture etc I keep thinking of Dr Strangelove & I keep humming the tune
I had the pleasure in working down at fairford for about 8yrs when the RIATs were on had such brill times 👍
Great catch in really bad conditions ... Fantastic work Nikos! 🎉
Thanks Dex. It was worth the wait, even in emotional weather conditions… but we are used to that now lol
1982-2002 USAF Security Policeman, name changed to Security Forces around mid 1990's. My first assignment 1982-1984 was at RAF Fairford. Loved it!! The Cotswold's is one of the most beautiful areas I've seen. Assigned to RAF Upper Heyford 1986-1990. Duty at U.H. NOT as fun due to the mission at that time. Still loved England though. Love your videos. Thanks!!
Thank you for serving sir
Ahhh this is my local base and I'm gutted I missed you! I'll be popping up to see these guys as much as I can whilst they're here, so hopefully I'll get another chance to meet you and Ted! Thank you for getting this footage for us - I know how unpredictable Fairford can be with the waiting times, so appreciate your efforts here! Thank you!
Thanks so much Ted and Co that was really special, no really really really special !
Oii Oii Roy thank you very much
Oii Oii well done for braving the horrible weather do you know if anymore are due in?
Wow!! amazing and thank you for this special treat ❤
Thanks Ally
Thanks for putting up with the weather and sharing mate👍
❤beautiful work nikos and ted
Thanks Sally
That is one LOOOOOOONG after landing run out!
Riders on the storm. Outstanding video Ted
Oii Oii thank you Rolf
what a landing all bent an drag chute!! a beast of an aircraft !! thinks ted an nikos !!
Special treat for us, thank you for your committed service to us @TedConingsby & Nikos
Emotional weather again, hope you got dried off 😊
Ooohhh yeah
Top work Ted
whooooah! the dragon lady! nice one nikos and ted ! the only military aviation channel!!
Thanks Knoxy
What amazing aircrafts. Thank you for amazing videos today and every day! 🇬🇧🇺🇸
Thanks Barbara
Great videos! I just love the B52s.... I never saw a Dragon Lady before! Cool!
Thanks for catching this for us! What awesome pieces of kit! Don’t show their age at all!
Oii oiii Alex
What great footage to come home to!. Thanks for going to Fairford for the BUFF and Dragon Lady in very emotional weather. I love the sound of the immense B52 and the chase car action of the U2. Top footage yet again Nikos.
Oiii oiii Sie, this was very emotional weather but it was worth the 8 hour wait in the wet type of rain lol 😂
Beautiful Unique Fetching Flyer!
Ooohh yeah
Well, well, when you want to see something special come to RAF Fairford 1 B52 and 1 U2 Dragon Lady nice one Nikos and Ted and in the rain as well very nice.
Oii oiii Debbie
Love the yellow parachute.
I knew a guy who worked on the electronics on the b52 bomber calvin clark thanks you for your sevice retried usaf gloucester
A monstrous machine!😮
I’ve never seen one in the air but just to stand underneath it at Duxford is amazing. I can’t believe it gets off the ground the sheer size of it. Thank you for filming this iconic aircraft
Oii Oii Hillary thank you
Top Job Ted (supported by Nikos, obviously!), really great to see those two arrivals. I was driving down to the South West today in the appalling weather, really great of you to brave it to bring us such great footage. 👍😊
Thank you 🤙🏼🇺🇸
quite a crosswind for the BUFF - love the video
Thanks Robert
Oiiiii yeahhhh - beautiful Ted and Nikos ... awful weather, I would have loved to have seen these planes in the flesh ! But a big Thank you for the footage ..😊
Thanks Andrew 🤙🏼
Great footage as always. Two of my favourite aircraft there. I love how they chase the U2 in the cars on the landing.
Oii oiii Rob thanks man ooohh yeah
Great vid, thanks for sharing. New to your channel so I just now see the artwork on your van. Pretty neat my friend, whoever made it.
Oii oiii thank you and welcome to the channel and squadron too. Ooohh yeah
Nice! 😮
OMG WOW !!!!
Oohh yeah
That B-52 is from Minot AFB, North Dakota. I was stationed there from Sept 1985 to April 1987. I was munitions systems specialist and took a lot of munitions to those bombers.
Incredible stuff Ted and Nikos. Persistence pays off again for the iron man and bear of streaming. A very long day🫡❤️💪 Welcome to the Uk 🇬🇧 MT MINOT🇺🇸🇺🇸 LETS RIDE AND SEND IT
Oii Oii Davey 🤙🏼 long day but worth the wait for this. Ooohhh yeah
I have a 1955 Chevy Bel-Air. The Dragon Lady and the B-52 yrace their beginnings back to this time frame.
B-52 = Grandpa Buff!!! 😂
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Wow, that B52 Squeals on approach. Looks so unstable as it lands with that never ending wingspan. Then its drag chute deploys to bring the beast to a halt. Superb! footage!of this less than a myth, more of a 20th century legend bomber. Absolutely monstrous Aircraft. Looks like a handful to fly? But not being a pilot, I can't comment. 😮🫡. We see alsorts on here but the U2 Dragonlady has always appeared odd looking to me. Nevertheless would still like to see one in the flesh. Great capture In what can only be described as appalling weather. Thanks for standing out there, striving for the best shots Ted and Nikos and grabbing the best action possible. Simply one of the many reasons why your channel is now 51.8K. What?
18600k when I joined. Awesome..!
Oiii oiii Dan thanks man
I missed them by 10 mins, drive down, realised I missed them, drove home again 😂
Interesting landing gear on the U2, don't think I have seen one before. Would be like landing a plane on an ice skate lol. Thanks for the videos, brilliant.
Thanks Babs. Yeah it needs chasing support vehicles too
Wow! 😲♥️♥️♥️
Ooohhh yeah
@ 1:23 Bird…yep mother has landed all good to cross
The BUFF is so ugly, its beautiful. B52 and U2, absolutely iconic. Those yanks certainly knew how to build planes in the 50s and 60s.
Crew Chief--580173, B-52 G model. 320th Bomb Wing (h)
Mather AFB, California...1974-1980.
Can’t get enough of those whistling TF-33s! I wonder if the new RR engines will sound the same?
Ooooohhh yeah
Great footage. You got a rare sight, a 'fully loaded' U2. With all the sensors. Not often they have all of them on one plane.
Oii oiii Stephen 🤙🏼
Love how the white cop Charger goes after the plane for speeding...
I knew they were heading back soon because an Atlas Air cargo 747 flew in the day before from Minot.
Due to U2 pilot being so far aft there is very little runway visibility. The chase cars talk them down by calling out altitude to touchdown. Some yt vids from the chase car perspective are around.
Watch out Fairford, my Monster in law is in town. the dragon Lady ;-)
Was that last landing a Top secret with mapping information?
Is that a fresh deployment?
Think that’s it a deployment of 4 you should have popped in nikos i only live down the road Trowbridge
Ooohh yeah
Another good video but why don’t you play the comms that would be good to hear on take off and landing
The comms were on, the rain probably drowned the radio lol
You DO NOT want to recover that drag chute when it's wet. Trust me on this one.
Sounds like you've had some experience on this. 🤣
2:03 hoping it stops before it gets into the next county ..........scarey to watch !
Oii oiii Geoff and Steve
I was there this afternoon down at the side of the 09 end and very noisy
How did u know it would be there 😭😭
Did the last plane have a wheel missing ?
No, the U2 has tiny wheels on the wingtips that "drop off" after take-off, all to save on weight.After landing they are reattached so that it can taxi again
4:25 what exactly is the purpose of the white vehicle?
A couple of reasons. Landing the U-2 is difficult - close to the ground it likes to hover - and the pilot has poor visibility to know when the gear touch down. The chase car will be in radio contact to let them know when the plane is on the deck. The car also contains personnel who will attach the pogos to the outer portion of the wing for taxiing.
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Well explained on a reply, but yes to assist landing and taking off too I think they use them.
There huge how many are coming to Fairford
Nothing announced as yet there were 2 last year one static one flying
We think 4 for what we’ve seen today as it looks as if they’ve started their sorties
@@TedConingsby thank you
Dragon Lady
Are the B52s restricted to Fairford?
In the UK, yes. It's the only runway able to take them....
@@stevesstuff1450 Cool fact if u didn't already know; because of its runway length RAF Fairford was an alternate landing location in Europe for the Space Shuttle. Thankfully it was never needed because the Shuttle never had to land outside of the US.
@@TheRipper5418 : Yes, I did know that; it is indeed a cool fact though. 😀
In some ways yes, it is the USAF's only European airfield for heavy bombers and routinely supports Bomber Task Force (BTF) operations. It is the only support station for heavy bomber aircraft in the UK. As far as landing is concerned for the length of runway, Brize Norton would be most likely as diversion airfield, but this is just a guess.
He's so far forward he's pretty much blind piloting her
what a big sexy beast!
#2 comment. Just viewed on iPad, good grief, what aircraft, one so big, it has wing wheels and needs a parachute to help it slow, the other end of spectrum the ‘dragon lady’ with only a couple of wheels. Why did the vehicles go chasing after the dragon lady though
The vehicles chase the U2 for two reasons: to help the pilot by telling him how many feet to go before touchdown, pilot cannot judge that very well himself. the other car carries the little wheels to attach to the wingtips, after it has come to a stop. This so it can taxi again
@@arjenav5968 thank you, the pilot is so far back, he's the only person on board😁
Oiii Oii Julie 🤙🏼The vehicle assist the landing of the U2. They also assist with taxiing and take off too. It’s the fact that the pilot can’t really see a lot
BUFF
We had the second largest SAC base near us in Limestone Maine at Loring Airforce base.
Made redundant in the 1990's.
The USA is no longer a match for any adversary.
The woke and migration policies have ruined the west.
And i am a Brit from West Yorkshire
Wow that was amazing everything you could ask for in 5 minutes , a squeal, wheel puffs, parachute break( like I loved as a kid on the EE Lightening.) Wings that go on for forever .
Then a crazy plane, with a crazy shape that has to be chased down the runway and an awesome name
Then you remember what they do and how long they have been doing it, it's mind blowing.
Also would make a great line up at Glastonbury with their names on the poster , maybe Drew and 999 Meg could support them ❤❤
Oii oiii Rachel. This was worth the wait in the emotional weather ooohhh yeah