Meet One of The Oldest B-52 Stratofortress Planes [4K] | Behind The Wings | Spark 

This guy's hair and beard deserve it's own recognition top notch A-1

Yes, this man is real. I live in Denver and have been to Wings over the Rockies. I have seen him with my own eyes.

That odd smell is old congealed oil that’s probably been sitting there since it stopped flying! I know this because we worked on old Pratt & Whitney J-52s in my AMT school and trust me those things wreaked. The decommissioned aircraft carrier, The intrepid, in New York cities harbor has the same smell all over it as well if you have ever been

Awesome video my dad would have loved it he had vhs films of all kinds of aircraft

This is great!!

Well done!

Thank you crew what a good tour of the plane you did a great job on camera I would of thought it was script fonominal job

Staying on US bases in UK, getting plastered on Bud while bowling in its alleys. Crazy towns. Lakenheath and Fairford.

Thank you 💕

A video about the B-52 is not complete without some Major T.J. Kong, commander of The Leper Colony (the most famous B-52 in film and fiction) quotes: “Well, boys, I reckon this is it. New-q-lure combat, toe-to-toe with the Rooskies.” “Well, I've been to one world fair, a picnic, and a rodeo, and that's the stupidest thing I ever heard come over a set of earphones. You sure you got today's codes?” “Goldie, how many times have I told you guys that I don't want no horsing around on the airplane?” “Stay on the bomb run, boys! I'm gonna get them doors open if it harelips ever'body on Bear Creek!” “Survival kit contents check. In them you'll find: one forty-five caliber automatic; two boxes of ammunition; four days' concentrated emergency rations; one drug issue containing antibiotics, morphine, vitamin pills, pep pills, sleeping pills, tranquilizer pills; one miniature combination Russian phrase book and Bible; one hundred dollars in rubles; one hundred dollars in gold; nine packs of chewing gum; one issue of prophylactics; three lipsticks; three pair of nylon stockings. Shoot, a fella' could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff.”

Thank you for that fun video 📹 😊

B52 gives me flashbacks.. this horrible dream I once had, where I was stuck in this cold, isolated place for years. The forever sound of screeching engines, fueled by the hopes and dreams of all that were there..Then I suddenly woke up and it was all just a bad dream. Still think about that bad drea, every now and then

I"m visiting Denver in about 1 week and this place is #1 on my list to go to, I've always wanted to visit Denver.

I want to go to that museum.

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I presume your meant ICBMs when you listed “ground” as the third element of the nuclear delivery trial.

If the host wasn’t so damn goofy & didn’t act so ignorant these videos would be the bomb !! The Asian man that done the Space Shuttle video was PERFECT!!!!

I run parties there all the time. All those planes make for an extremely unique backdrop for dining and dancing.

Was based at Minot AFB - Det 7, 37 ARRS - A Military Air Command tenant unit, mission - Air Rescue, primarily however we supported the SAC mission - 91st Missile Wing - ferrying crews out to their missile launch platforms, in all weather . . . and, it gets snowy and sub-zero in the winter 😬

I lived in Amarillo Tx home of Amarillo Air Force Base for the B-52. In jr. high gym class we were out on the track an dozens of B-52s passed over our school. Pretty soon parents started showing up at school in a panic to get their kids. My dad told us he didn't know what was going on, but something was up. We didn't get nuked, and we were never told why all the B-52s were in the air. It was a bit scary. AFB closed a few years later, and the story went with it.

G'day Spark, I actually saw this documentary well before November '21. Once you get past the shock of Matthew referring to his audience as "baby", and looking like a dope dealer from Hollywood Central Casting, there is a lot of interest to see in this video, despite, Matthew's first sentence of his narration connecting the B-52 with, "...the United States Army Air Corps...", which, of course, it didn't. The B-52s surely are a technological marvel that have had untold millions of dollars of refits and improvements, still regarded as cheaper than coming up with a replacement. Those two aircraft, the F-111 and the B-1B Lancer, each costing mammoth amounts of money could not perform all the roles of the Stratofortress. It's easy to see that this video is dated as nearly all the operational B-52s these days have all 'glass' instrument panels, meaning their main flight control indicators are small video panels rather than analogue dials. Engine and certain other basic components are also the subject of a massive upgrading of these aircraft that, with the latest estimates, should see B-52s in service till 2050. Even then, it's doubtful that such a large aircraft will be created to replace them all. A hint about the future of B-52s is that out of all the old airframes sitting in aircraft 'boneyards' very few of the B-52s have been chopped up for scrap. The potential for more ' B.U.F.F.S.' to be brought back to life still remains. I'm glad about that. There is just something so appealing about the design of the B-52, like all great aircraft, they just look 'right'. I don’t think they are B.U.F.F.S. at all. Cheers, BH

This B-52 has had s lot of high -G manuevers as look at the wrinkled outer layer of the airframe! Time for a half life refit!!!!

I work at the store they showed at the end! The Arts District Market!

When they were talking about the smokie engines, that may have been a good time to mention the air force recently signed a contract with Rolls-Royce North America to re-engine all the B-52s.

I was stationed at Lowey AFB in the '70's. is the museum on the same ground?

What a goof ball guy

kinda cool

i saw a have a pic of a B-24 named Diamond Lil

Bad Ass Video!!

Bless you bro

Man, he uses a great deal of hair care products on his mane.

5:44 early version of the Star Trek “Jeffries tube”.

What’s with the Tyvek suit & mask?

I'm guessing the gunner turret had a parachute attached to it or did the gunner have to wear one at all times?

Smell is musty electronics and cables type of thing.

Actually fun fact. B-52s dropped anti-personal mines in Nam. Like gravel mines. Small mines about the size of sugar packs ment to just blow toes off basically haha..

None of these documentaries talk about Tinker AFB

When he was talking to the EWO woman and he said “well your pretty good at your job than hun?” I hate when people say stuff like that, what are you going to say ? No. No I’m not good at it at all. I don’t try at all.

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Re-Run?

I can't see how they got rid of gun in rear I know I'd feel better flying with gunner

Whatever happened to the guy that set the plane on fire?

Colorado to North Dakota, nearby???

Why not Minot? Freezin's the reason.

You literally took another RU-vidr's videos & mashed them together?

dont you have a DC-8 out there

A Subaru cannot drop a thermo nuclear device on mother Russia.

Did I hear him say dea not dia

4th busiest airport in North America but only 4 widebody gates....

Yeah this video seems stollen there is an actual RU-vid channel that is called wings over the Rockies and they published this exact videos long ago

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Gold Goldenrod age 💛 ✨ 💖 😎 woow imagined making old planes with golden parts and components eltric fied I just seen a ol sayling ship 🚢 made of gold parts Columbus ship 🚢 maybe 😀 😄 😍 😳 👌

She was right those men wouldn't feel so safe without her listening to beeps and sqeeks relying on her

Yeah, lets celebrate a machine that serves no purpose other than to rain death from the skies. What an awesome idea. Murica. 🗽

Why have four engines when you can fit eight.

DUDE IF THEY BUILT THAT IN 1965 ITS 56 DONT IT ????

This show didn't tell me anyting

36:45 Svastika much?

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Possibly the most irritating presenter I've seen this year - more suited to Children's TV than a serious documentary. All he does is set my teeth on edge. In any case, this is a information-free waste of time.

WHAT FLAGGED WAS THAT....USA USNA STA.UNIDOS...NOT A PLACE BUT INFORMATION IS NOT IMPORTANT....ENCYCLOPEDIA DICTIONARY DEFINITION LAND YVBURQIEDVODEUX...

21:38 she is a lier there is nothing behind the curtain it's just all made up