Cold War Secrets: Finding 3 Strategic Bombers
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- čas přidán 4. 09. 2022
- On this trip my buddy Austin and I set out into the desert in search of Cold War era aircraft just laying out in the open. The first one that we checked out was a Convair B-58 Hustler, which was the first bomber capable of reaching Mach 2 speed. The two other aircraft we came across were the Boeing B-52 Stratofortresses. These aircraft are absolute giants and being right next to them was a surreal experience. We were able to get into each cockpit and crawled through much of the fuselage. Hope y'all enjoy this one!
I was stationed at Edwards 67/68 and was part of the team that drug 'Snoopy' the B58 to that spot.
My dad was stationed at Edwards AFB from 1966 to 1969. I was probably one of the cool kids you saw in the commissary or BX 😊.
Probably not a bad place to be stationed in the late 60s given the alternatives!
@@wes11bravo True. My next assignment was nam.
@@gardenparty3288 - Respect. You guys still had to deal with rockets, mortars, zips in the wire, etc. Like they say, it's not the bullet with your name on it you need to worry about - it's the one marked "to whom it may concern" that'll get ya! Glad you got through it!
@@wes11bravo especially true for those of us who volunteered for aircraft recovery missions. AKA mortar magnets
B-58 Snoopy was a test aircraft that after the B-58 test program was re-used to test the radar system for the YF-12 fighter version of the SR-71. Snoopy got its name from its stretched nose, 7ft longer than a standard B-58.
When the radar test program ended in the mid-1960s Snoopy was stripped of parts and then hauled out to its current location to serve as a photo calibration target.
The regular spaced stripes on the tarmac look like the stripes we had on a AF resolution target.
So sad to see such an amazing aircraft in this condition... I remeber researching this specific aircraft many years ago... And there were plans back in the late 70's IIRC to restore it... I'm sure they'd be able to find enough folks, especially veterans who would be willing to jump in on a project like that!!
Muscle Car restorers sometimes start with just an A Pillar, windshield and a roof and then build it back to original. I guess it could be done with a B-52 with a couple million parts. I am sure you can find the original drawings for that bird at the Boing Plant in Wichita, Kansas. LET ME KNOW WHEN YOU’RE FINISHED.
@@JackBWatkins Call Kermit Weeks , his comment will be " You footing the bill ,?"
Thank you gentlemen for giving this ole man something I would not have otherwise been able to experience in my life. I am forever grateful for being allowed to share this adventure with you.
The B-58 was very short lived due to the numerous issues with flight stability and it's short range. It actually entered service in 1960, 26 of the original 116 build were lost due to crashes and it would never see combat. Production was cancelled after it's role was reduced to a low altitude support bomber. It is considered one of the biggest failures in bomber history. But, it was a gorgeous Delta wing airframe for sure. - USAF 544th ISR -Offutt AFB SAC.-retired
Almost every jet (minus the B-52) of that era had a very short shelf life, things were just changing too quickly. Considering its capabilities (of the time) I wouldn't consider it a failure - there are just times when program cost and deployment stats don't tell the full story.
It was retired because of budget cuttings not because of the accident rate , it was an expensive aircraft to keep in the air , how can a plane with 19 world records under it's belt be considered a failure
Thank you for your service.
So you spent an entire career in SAC and never nuked the Soviet Union? Your entire career is considered a failure
A salute you two young men for reaching back in your history and touching a piece of my life. stay curious. 👍👍
I really liked how Respectful You & friends were to these relics! Thank you so much for showing us all HOW to act & behave around these retired soldiers who protected us 24/7 from a perceived threats some 10,000 miles north of us!
I photographed and climbed around on all these derelict airplanes at Edwards back in the early 1980's. At the time both B-52's were intact, and poor Snoopy was in much better shape. There was also a B-47B and a Navy F-4B on the photo range a few miles to the east (east of the Voodoo), but both are gone now. The Northrup X-21 was out there, too.
The more "intact" B-52 is an RB-52B, the first operational version and a real early one off the line. Note the tailgun turret and gun-laying radar are the same as on late B-36s.
I was a member of the 43rd Bomb Wing at Little Rock AFB in Arkansas in 1966. We were one of only two B-58 wings in the AF. GREAT to fly but a pain to maintain.
Had a pretty high accident rate if I recall correctly.
I was there from 1972-1974. Had tankers then. Went to Guam in 1974 43rd was there. B-52s
I arrived at Bunker Hill AFB in aug 66, fresh out of basic....was a mechanic there until oct 1968....was there when the base name changed to Grissom.....it was a pretty plane when it was flying....not so pretty when it crashed....305th bomb wing
@@mikedee8876 One of my aviation mentors ejected shortly after takeoff at Bunker Hill in april '62. Capt. Bill Hale. He lost a crew member in that accident. Had to be a nightmare to maintain.
@@Kevin_747In 1968 I was sitting on the perimeter road in my wrecker watching a 58 stage for takeoff....as it reached v1 , the nose came up and the wheels left the ground and it pitched over and was flying upsidedown, just 50 feet off the runway, then sank down into the pavement and disintegrated into a fireball......hard to forget that sight.....they said the plane had avionics problems.....
The B52 has been such a amazing platform we now have 2 that we're flown by 3 generations of the same family. And it's planned to stay in service until 2065.
Luckey guy!!!
To me the B-58 is one of the most amazing aircraft ever made. They really excite me.
Brother, your videos really enchant. Something about your filming technique makes us feel like we’re standing next to you. Just look at all the flak damage on cockpit windows. “In disrepair” indeed. I also like how you use a few still shots. And the extreme closeups and detail shots of things. I’m subscribed finally!
Yup. I was there about 23 years ago. Took nothing, left only footprints.
That's the way to do it! Thanks for watching.
Thanks for this video. This really brought back a memory for me from 1984 at Carswell when my supervisor and I went out to a very early model scrap B52 to k-ball (cannibalize) an attachment screw similar to the one you pointed out. Over the years I had a dim recollection of the floorplan as it was very different from the H models we worked on every day. A dim recollection until your video brought it back into sharp relief. That aircraft I toured one time was scrapped and removed from the base that year along with one or two others as I recall. Thanks again!
I worked at a facility that made the engines for the B-58. Those GEJ-79s we're something in their day. First jet engines with variable stator Vanes. Now all engines use them.
Glad that you young guys have respect for that Aircraft. I'm an Army Infantry Veteran. Great video my Friends. 😎
Awesome guys. Thank You for being respectful to the old bombers.
At one time the AF had something like 900 B 52s. There were various models, many had guns. We signed a nuclear treaty with the USSR and scrapped all of the older ones at Amark by chopping the wings and tails off with a big steel blade. The were left like that so soviet satellites could see them. The 70 or so still flying were the latest ones. They are talking about new engines and keeping them flying over 100 years.
Our tax dollars at work 🤬
A total of 744 B-52 aircraft were produced.
There were about 750 made.
Live in Tucson when that happened. Had to sit like that for a long time . Even when they scrapped them it was under high security. Funny thing about that deal was each country scrapped airframes that had already been taken out of service .
@@pat36a They scrapped the oldest ones first.
My Air Force Father let me crawl all over in and around the B-52 at Wurtsmith. Breaks my heart to see those Aircraft out there.
Weapons 46250 Bunker Hill AFB Peru, Indiana 1966-67 LET team before going to Phan Rang Vietnam. After basic & second phase at Lackland AFB (2nd phase at Lackland due to a case of Spinal Meningitis that broke out in our sister flight resulting in quarantine.) I went to Lowry AFB Denver, CO for weapons training on Fighter Aircraft. Conventional Weapons! After 2+ months of Fighter Systems my class got orders, everyone but me that is? Another week+ went by until I finally got orders to Bunker Hill AFB, SAC. For those of you that don't know it SAC (Strategic Air Command) was Bombers, not Fighters. I knew of the B-52 but had no clue what a B-58 was? I've had no training whatsoever on Bombers!!!
The B-58 was the fastest airplane in the world at that time. I loaded Nuclear Weapons on this great aircraft. 4 hung on pylons and one under the body encased within a Fuel Pod. Also had the M-61 Gattlin gun in the stinger. Our crew was 4 man and loaded the pylons with the MJ-1 bomb lift truck or J-cine as we called it. The fuel pod & Nuclear bomb was cradled on a dual steering loading trailer, done with all 4 of us on headsets as there were 2 on each side of the trailer. There was only 6" of clearance between the landing gear wheels and had to have a 500 lb weight hung on the nose so as to prevent sitting the plane on its rearend during pressure up latching of the Pod.
The B-58 was ahead of its time, needing today's technology! A great experience for me that I will always remember...
Convair made some amazingly capable, advanced aircraft for their time. Two of my favorite aircrafts are made by Convair which are the B-58 Hustler and the F-106A & B. Great video. Thanks for sharing.
F111s and 106s.. with ya brother
The plural of "aircraft" is "aircraft" (no "s" at the end).
The Six would be highly competitive in today’s world. It was the first with super cruise.
@@EricIrlunless you are talking about more that one type of aircraft
@@tommcelroy6975 No - not really.
Great video and explore Jerith! Your education in the service is serving you well! Awesome discovery on 1952 Wheat Penny! Makes you wonder who dropped it and how they were connected to the aircraft. Can't wait until your next explore.
I worked Transient Alert out at Edwards, from June '72 - Sep '74. I had access to it all, since we had tower contact, for crossing ammo trucks, FOD on the runway, etc. It was slow going out there, on weekends, so, while on the job, I took a trip to South Base, where the Barrier Test '52 was sitting. It was obviously being cannibalized, but a lot was still there. One of my best photos was inside the cockpit, of the eight throttles, which were still intact, at that time. Never saw the other chopped '52. I did tailwalk NASA '52 008 "Balls Eight" once, from its home at NASA to a point down the flightline. An acquaintance was a crew member of 008, and another T.A. buddy was friends with him, so I was just helping make the move.
Had many great experiences out there, including getting a transient C-5A in, just shortly (weeks) after I arrived. We escorted the Galaxy to parking, right in front of the T.A. hangars, next to Base Ops / T.A., and after shutdown & chocking, the fuselage of that beast squatted down, and the nose opened up, revealing a wingless aircraft in the belly of the C-5. There were probably only 25 of us (base dignitaries & aircraft crew) standing there, watching the first YF-15A Eagle #280 being rolled down the ramps. C R A Z Y !
I was way too young in the Air Force to realize what I was witnessing, but I got to watch that whole program while at EAFB, as well as the YF-16 & YF-17, and A-9 & A-10 flyoff competitions. After the programs settled into a routine, we performed Last Chance nearly daily/weekly on all the prototypes. I snuck my camera to work occasionally, so I do have photos (of all the prototypes/paint jobs) that prove what I'm saying (who makes this stuff up?). Anyway, as soon as I saw your thumbnail, I knew what I was looking at! Thanks for the walk down memory lane!
Joe Keene
PS For clarity, the "wheels" are the metal rim part, and the rubber is the tire, and those tires all look flat They are probably 24-ply (?), so they appear inflated, but I doubt they still are.
BTW, for a sad story about EAFB Last Chance, google:
Joseph M. Keene Edwards AFB F-111
My father help build the B58 at Convair in Fort Worth Texas. He said it had to land way too fast due to the delta wing and the brakes and tires were all ways catching on fire. It was the reason they built the F111 with movable wings.
The B-52 with Barrier Test Aircraft on it was used for testing runway barrier nets. They would literally fly the plane into a net to stop it. OKA a controlled crash. The cut up B-52 was used to test the engines for the C5A galaxy. Inside right engine pod was removed and replaced with a single mount and TF-39 engine. It was dismantled in 1991 after the Soviets noticed it sitting there not knowing it's status.
That second B52 looks like it may have been burned at some point. Looks like an explosion of sorts with the mangled and jagged edges and burns. Looks like it was a target aircraft for training missiles or bombs. 🤷♂️
@@prestonmoebius9645 It actually was blown up by the demolition crew who dismantled it. They used prima cord to shear the wings and tail off, and put some kind of explosive in the crew cabin. Both planes are actually well documented. There is a plane crash site that has history on a lot of plane crashes, including the XB-70, and these two planes are documented there as well.
Just sad to see these once giants of the skys stranded in the middle of a desert
They are technically on Edwards Air Force Base, so not really stranded by simply obsolete and used for parts. Also it looks like you missed the saber jet remains that farther east near to Mercury Blvd
We shouldn't have ever had them in the first place
Someone should totally restore them for air show and museum use.
Those are rudder peddles my friend the move the rudder attached to the vertical stabilizer at the tail. Below the cockpit was the “office” for the bombardier/navigator radar defensive weapons systems operating. Two crew decks forward with the pilot co pilot with the good views The guys I mentioned previously sat in dark cubbyholes beneath the flight deck. I think that the D model was the last model with a manned tail gun position. A lonely place to be at 30,000 feet. The B-52 has been in service for so long that we have H models flown by grandfather and grandson. The B-52, Boeing KC-135 tanker are two of the longest serving aircraft. I was just 3 when the B-52 came on line and now at 70 they’re still a mainstay and they may be around another 15-20 years.
There were tail gunners in the rear through the B-52F models that I worked on while in SAC, last of the tall-tails. The B-52G models, first of the short tails, brought the gunner forward, with remote controls for the guns. Thanks for the tour of some old friends.
VERY COOL VIDEO YOUNG MAN. THANK YOU FOR THIS. ✈
Brief history of that B-58
YB-58A-CF Serial #55-665
First flight on 09/28/1957.
Assigned to Edwards AFB, Nicknamed Snoopy I.
First test aircraft delivered to the USAF on 2/15/58; on 2/15/59 modified to test AN/ASG-18 radar system and associated GAR-9/AIM-47 missile for the F-108 Rapier and later the YF-12A programs.
Snoopy I is airframe #6 of 116 built, one of 11 pre-production aircraft and, one of 8 B-58 Hustlers remaining today.
In derelict condition on the Edwards AFB photo test range, she's been sitting here for many years.
That was one cool plane. Wright pat has one in Dayton ohio. I wouldn’t necessarily want to fly one.. YEEHAW!
There is a B-58 at the Pima Air Musuem in excellent condition.
Toward the end of USAF Pilot Training a list comes down to each class of the aircraft assignments currently available. There were five B-52 on the list my class received. They were on the bottom of most dream sheets. (Your choice first to last). My standing was 14th out of 37 so no B-52 for me. :)
Thank you for sharing this information :)
Thanks for the video…brings back many memories for me. Scavenged many parts from them as we used many parts off of both of those B52s to help keep 008 flying…
Scale modelers love this stuff, nice work.
Convari B-58 Hustler. Had a Vulcan 'gatling gun' in the tail capable of 9K rounds a minute sustained . Was my favorite jet....waaaaaay back.
1952 penny. The year I was born. B 52 was being developed in the early 50’s . Memory is a bit hazy but I think that they were accepted in 1955. Those examples you guys were exploring looked like a pair of early D models. They can be pretty fascinating. I grew up in Dayton, Ohio very near Wright Patterson AFB and got to see several B-52’s along with KC-135 tankers when I was younger.
You can see decent versions of these planes at the SAC museum outside of Omaha. They also have one of the 4 remaining B 36s which were much larger than B 52. They have the little fighter which was carried inside the B 36.
Ashland, Nebraska.
That museum is a nice piece of history. I spent most of a day there. It’s a wow place
@@chrispemberton7000 The B 36 was killer. Some have never heard of them. Castle has interesting crew interviews. For me the only plane more striking is the Valkyrie.
those aren't the brake pedals... well, sometimes they are. they are the Rudder controls, but on some aircraft you can activate the brakes by pushing them both forward.
In 1964 my dad was stationed at Minot AFB, North Dakota as a B-52 pilot / operations officer. We had B-58's visit Minot from time to time. Got to see one takeoff up close. It was very loud. Beautiful aircraft.
In 1964 My Dad and family had just came home from Spain , He was a Crew Chief with the 19th Bombardment Group Heavy .... We were on our way to Warner Robins AFB Warner Robbins Ga ..... Our Fathers may Have crossed paths at some point ....
I would ask who he pissed off to get stationed at Minot, but that was probably all part and parcel of flying for SAC.
In the '80s I was stationed at Edwards AFB and walked out to these three aircraft several times. I poked my head into the B-52 hatch and got attacked by birds that were nesting inside.
Along these aircraft is the remains of a rocket sled track that was used to test ejection seats (my job while in the USAF), before they moved that function to New Mexico.
This was a lot of fun. Thanks for the exploration! Regards from Ody Slim
What really made me LMAO was when you looked down where the Yaw control pedals were normally located and said "NO BRAKE PEDALS" I laughed a good 20 - 40 minutes.
Your very very good at explaining everything, that’s great. Thank you
I grew up in Ft Worth Tx in the 1960s. I used to love watching the new Hustlers leave the factory...sometimes under full afterburner. God they were beautiful.
WOWZAH! Taking-off with full after-burners must've T H R I L L E D you to your "Little-piggies!" ; )
Explored around those aircraft in 1997...The B-52 suffered an overrun on the lakebed, and they basically pushed the wreck off the lakebed. The others are on the photo range for testing purposes at some point in history.
Early-1970s took VIPs and tourists on tours through MASDC at DMAFB, was or is largest aircraft collection in the US. MASDC had hundreds of B-52s, many B-58s, all kinds of other aircraft. I was fascinated by the modified bright orange B-52 used to carry and launch the X-15. Never forgot seeing sentimental reactions of visiting former B-52 pilots (generals when visiting) seeing their planes in various stages of being recycled.
The B 58 was retired around 1970. It was replaced by the B 1 which still flys with a similar mission. The landing gear is so tall because it carried a dropable pod which contained fuel and a nuke. It was featured in the movie "Fail Safe" as the Vindicator. It was originally high altitude but transisioned to low altitude high speed terrain following. There are vids showing it flying at high speed 200 feet off the ground. It had 4 engines. The thing you saw was one of the engine mounts. The plane was way ahead of its time. There are none flyable today. It had a canon in the tail. I am told Pima museum has restored theirs. It took star sights for precision navigation to target. Crew of three in tandem. They had an ejection pod to allow high speed ejection and several museums have these. There is a trashed one at Edwards AFB in the desert. It was used in tests I believe. I think it was the trans continental speed record holder, something like a couple of hours.
The 43rd Bomb Wing at Little Rock AFB in Arkansas was my first assignment in 1966.
B-1 was designed to replace B-52not B-58.
@@briancooper2112 The B-1 has been removed from the nuke mission. And I bet the B-52 will do the flyover at the B-1 retirement ceremony. I'm biased. That photo is of me in a Buf H model at a reunion.
Roger, also one in highly polished condition for SAC at the Galveston TX air museum. Check out the videos. A great looking aircraft design.
@@RobertEHunt-dv9sq that plane has been at the USAF museum in Dayton for years.
Very cool thanks for the tour good job guys
You boys stay cool man and Thank You for the video. 😎
I’ve been watching your videos (4 in total) today. I just discovered you. I am very impressed. I love your content and your ethics. Keep them coming, and thank you. Ron
In the old B-52 the tail gunner was seated right in the tail of the aircraft (I couldn't see that on these & it was later moved up) But I knew a man that was a tail gunner and told me all kinds of wartime stories about flying in these. He would take a beer with him inside his jacket. He said that it was so cold up there that the beer would be chilled for the flight back. He would only take one with him. He didn't like to drink, but he didn't like being shot at either lol. Hardly anyone made it to 50 fights and if you did you got retired. He flew 49 missions and was on the runway for his 50th when the war was ended. Sadly he felt like he didn't do his duty for only flying 49. He was a really great man S.B. Forest
I worked on G and H models, but one day a D model landed, and I had to bring the tail gunner a ladder. With no load on the aircraft it was a long way down from that hatch :)
Yeah - you are speaking about WW2 crew men. These aircraft are NOT from WW2.
That was a cool video , thanks for sharing your explore
These Aircraft are Photo Range Targets now. Also the center Levers in the B-52s where actually the Throttles for the Eight Jet Engines!
Neat discovery! I’ve always admired the B58 and B52. Growing up I lived for a time at a SAC base full of such bombers. The B58was an amazing aircraft for its time. Fast, swept wings. It had great speed but it just didn’t have the range needed to be a useful bomber to be able to fly from the US to Russia and back. The much slower and larger B52 could. BTW airplanes don’t have collectives, only helicopters do. Their main control is called a yoke or a stick, depending on the design. The pitot tube is what planes have to show such things as speed. The B52 has 8 jet engines, two to a pylon. Those levers were throttles for each engine. There is nothing called a wing flap. On the forward wings there are just, flaps, for giving the wings more lift during landings, mostly, there are speed brakes, and ailerons for turning the aircraft. On the rear wings are flap-looking things called elevators I for going up and down, basically. The vertical fin has flap looking things called rudders. Although I never flew for the military, I learned to fly back several decades while in college hoping to be an airline pilot.
Thanks for such an interesting video. I’ve always wanted to make a desk out of parts from these remaining hulls. They get all polished up and look astonishing.
Very cool adventure! I went to school to repair B-52s many years ago.
The pedel in the lower compartment left side is for opening the cover for the optical bombsight. It is operated ny the radar navigator aka bombardier.
You gotta do more of these! Awesome stuff here.
Pretty darn cool - THANKS ! !
🙂😎👍
It's so good to see young blokes like you taking an interest in your military history. If I may correct you at 26:18 that is the yoke, helicopters or rotary wing aircraft have a collective.
27:33 Rudders mate. The reason they are where they are is the lack of humidity and moisture so as to preserve them. The B-58 is a totally new one to me, something to research. Thanks for this video mate.
Maurice on the B-58 can you say "Stainless Steel"
@@fltTech72
YEP
7:40 the ghost of a crewmember still haunts the wreck.
Thank You boys for this awesome video. 😎
Thank for this very informational video , It quiet good .
Interesting as heck! I’m 71 and those birds are as old as me..LOL
Then you must remember, just like I do, the regular sonic booms heard in the 1960's, before it became illegal for military aircraft to break the sound barrier over populated ares. The boom was so loud, the windows in my elementary school classroom would rattle, to point of breaking, but they never did. It just seemed like they would.
Awesome Awesome video boys! Thank You! 😎
fantastic vid. lovin' the entire comment section. Great Graditude and blessings to all in service to God and Country, Salute. from mom of a vet 82nd.🕊🇺🇲🦅
Great video! Thanks!
There’s an F101 Voodoo just east of the B52’s that I’ve taken several nice photos of. Then on the other side of Mercury Blvd. there’s two experimental X-21A fuselages (converted B-66 Destroyers) and an F-100 Supersaber but they are on super secure base property.
Ooo. When I went out there many f111s.. f5s etc. I was shocked when I saw this video.
I recorded all three of those planes back in 1994 when I worked as an archaeologist there. Research on the F-100 found that it was one of the first Supersabers to break the sound barrier. As for the X-21A's it was discovered that the wings had been modified to test the planes for STOL capabilities.
@@coleparker on the X21’s they moved the engines from under the wings to pylons under the tail and used a perforated leading edge on the wings coupled to air compressors to try to reduce air pressure at the edge of the wing to reduce drag and increase fuel economy/range. The perforations would ice over at higher altitudes and render any effect useless. It’s a shame they didn’t preserve one of the two in a museum with it neing an X-plane and all.
@@whatsleftbehind6539 That is what the researchers told me. The planes were not my specialty, I was just there to guide them out to the planes and videotape them while they recorded them.
@@coleparker I came across an article online about them a few years ago and I’ve not been able to find it again. It talked about the B-52’s as well.
The B 52 was featured in the movie Dr. Strangelove which I watched last night if you want to see what the inside really looks like. Multi level.
Best movie ever, but interior not based on the plane. They had no access back then but blew the air force away with there version.
Warped minds think alike? Images of "Dr. Strangelove" movie scenes definitely emerged as I was viewing this video 😆😆! I will probably remember the scene of Major Kong (Slim Pickins) riding the H-bomb out of the rodeo chute (bomb bay) until the day I die! YEEEEEEE-HAWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!
“It’s in a semi-state of disrepair.” 🤣🤣🤣
Snoopy I is a historic airframe. According to Jim Goodall's book An Illustrated History of the SR-71 Blackbird, Snoopy I was the test bed for the AN/ASG -18 pulse doppler radar that was later used in the YF-12 interceptor and later in the F-14 Tomcat. This radar is what allowed these aircraft to fire the Aim-47 (YF-12) / Aim-64 (F-14) Pheonix missiles. Super cool to see what's left!
The B58 was a very futuristic looking aircraft with its delta wings. Great interesting video.
Great video! I would have never known about this place!
my old home Eddie's air patch these are range markers on the photo range thanks for the memories of biking out to see them
Great video. Thanks
Great video , looking at the holes in the Buffs they have been at some time used on a gunnery range for pilots to hone their skills with a cannon .
You need to watch the old movie "Strategic Air Command" to get an idea of how these icons of American history were used. Different planes in the movie, but same mission. Also watch "Dr. Strangelove" to see some great shots inside a B-52. You'd really get an appreciation for these birds.
I worked on B52 G models, defensive fire control systems. Those airplanes composed part of the USA’s Cold War defense. And now they are just rotting hulks.
Nice video.
Pretty sweet!
Very cool
Very interesting stuff it was really great thank you for sharing God Bless
That B-58 is "Snoopy" with an enlarge nose to test radars.
B-58 Hustler, Mach 2 medium bomber. Mach refers to the speed of sound, so Mach 2 means that it could go twice the speed of sound. Also one of the most dangerous aircraft to fly. It used a one of a kind ejection seat 💺, was a clamshell unit that would encapsulate the pilots on ejection. Also, the cold War ended in the early 90's with the collapse of the Soviet Union.
In the general dynamicsf111 the whole flight deck was the ejection pod so the b58 was not unique in this approach but both we're from the same company since convair became general dynamics
That is so cool to see those bombers
1st one is a B-58 Hustler, the B-52 is a fascinating aircraft, it can point its nose into the wind, in a crosswind landing but the wheels will keep pointing straight down the runway.
On my bucket list now!
As an historic preservation intern at Edwards AFB, I investigated and documented these aircraft in the summer of 1994.
Much of the internet now shares re discoveries which enthusiasts knew all about.
Hey Mike, this is Cole Parker. I was one of the Archaeologist working for CSC at the time when you were working with Richard Norwood, the BHPO.
@@coleparker 😲Wow! I remember you! Those were som good times!
@@coleparker What was the purpose of doing the survey?
@@coleparker Norwood, that's a name I haven't seen in a long time. I was active duty on the B-2 though the 90s. I got involved informally researching crash sites on base in the 1995 - 1998 time frame. I was providing data to AFFTC/HO as they had almost no data from WWII and of post war events that were not "chargable" to Edwards units. I worked with Mr. Norwood identifying a couple unknowns he had listed in his site catalog plus obtained permission to access the small arms range and Pancho's. Found pieces of the B-24 that almost wiped Pancho's off the map. Found a couple others around there also.
Walker was a SAC base at Roswell. Closed in 1965.
Anyone else get the feeling this is how the next TRANSFORMERS MOVIE WILL BEGIN!! 😂 Lol
Back when I was a teenager and in the Air Defense Command under the Strategic Air Command, out of Omaha , Nebraska : We spent five weeks learning the operations of a Filter Center. We took Tracing as well as Plotting on a huge clear plastic map of an area 50 X 100 Miles and we were responsible of keeping tract of every plane in that area and plotting it's course., As an Honor to us, We were toured and then flown in a B-52 long before I was enlisted in the U. S. Army. That was an experience I will never forget. But when I was honored bt Congressman Doug Lamalfa on 11 / 11 / 2017. for my over sixty years of service, And due to the fact that I have not been able to get one Veteran to come and help me get my car back on the road all this year and sense last November. I will no longer ba able to serve the American Fallen Warriors or any other Veterans Programs so I will no longer be flying my KIA Flag or any Flags on my car if I ever get anyone to work on my Carburetor. I have given so much all my life and can't even bet a local Veteran who cares enough to offer help. Everyone wants anywhere from $25.00 to $95.00 Per Hour. And yesterday I was ask why I was so angry. What a laugh.
Awesome aviation history ..
Reading about this says you are required to have a military ID because these bombers are located on Edwards AF base property have to drive through the main gate.
" Snoopy" was the B-58 modified to test the F-111A terrain following radar..
Great video!
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Thank you! Glad you enjoyed.
That is cool thanks.
The level of "cool" at 02:40 is awe inspiring....
Woah neato wheatback!
Snoopy was used to test the AIM-47 falcon missile with the AN/ASG-18 Radar. It was a test bed aircraft
I have a great shot of the plane that I took back in 2018, from a distance. Cool to see it up close in the video.
The B58 Hustler had four J79 turbojet engines .
Eerie but awesome!
To be exact 744 b-52s were built in several different models ending with the h model which is still in service today last one delivered to the US was October 1963 some of these h model b-52 are still flying today
I wonder how many were lost in Vietnam by SAM attacks?