Plane Flies Too Low 

The B-52 landing gear can turn 20 degrees either direction. As you can see, it is very useful for a cross wind takeoff. Even more useful, and safer, for a crosswind landing.

Indeed!

@@trainliker100 It's actually essential. With the low wing, they cannot land like other planes do or their wingtips would hit the ground

That used to be a TOP SECRET deal. The Crab.

Those B-52s needed to be able to take off when there was a threat, even when weather conditions were bad. The engineers really came through on that. Living in Wichita KS I saw the B-1B takeoffs. They had "Afterburner Night" every so often. There is a rooftop near the runway the public can watch from. Two B-1Bs took off with full afterburner, circled around for a low pass and a full afterburner pull up. You could hear that roar all over town.

Only costs about $10,000 a minute to fly, not counting munitions.

@@chriskelly6559 worth it. 🤘

@@v8matey agree with that statement, I was lucky enough to get to see these awesome badass bomber's several times at Warner Robins AFB, Warner Robins, Ga. There's nothing else like these bad boy's... And nothing else made me feel like I was feeling when they would take off from the base, an overwhelming sense of pride of being a American, knowing that we have a aircraft like that in our air force. There is no video that can do justice to this aircraft when it is taking off and getting up to speed, the sound of it is incredible, and believe me when I say that...it is loud as hell, and sounds like it is "ripping" the air, and the vibration, let's you know that this is one aircraft , that you know, isn't messing around.... It's one of my favorite aircraft's.... They also have another awesome aircraft located there... The SR-71 Blackbird..... And you can see it for free at the Museum of Aviation , lots of cool aircraft there

Yes, lots of boring American noise in that clip. Yawn 🤭

I was detached to Thumraite in the early 90s what a place, loved it.

The Bone with all four fires lit looks fookin' awesome at night! - great video :)

I used to work in a railyard. Somewhere nearby was a navigation beacon for the local airport. Early one morning I was out first opening up the railcars we would be working on. I heard an aircraft taking off from the airport, nothing unusual with that, happened a lot, but at about the moment I realized it was military, I also remembered a B1 had been stuck at the airport for a few days because they had dented the wingtip while taxying. I looked up, and it must have been just after the pilot had received clearance for altitude. "Air Force B1 cleared for altitude at the outer marker" The B1 was just tilting it's nose up at a steep angle, and I'm looking straight up the tailpipes at about 500 feet. Holy shit it was loud!

I spent 4.5 months at Thumrait as the control tower chief. The windows in the tower rattled every time a BOne took off until it was about a mile past the departure end of the runway. Loved the bright blue flames!

B52 and a Vulcan 100ft (not together ) above my home...AMAZING !

I bet the onboard computer voice was panicking at the pilot.

@@janetyeoman1544 Terrain! Terrain! Terrain!

Agreed. Kinda the point of a low pass is flying low

yep, gotta do it for the views though

@@mattafakkah oh yeah the finishing touch lol

I agree, this was the best!!

@@mattafakkah I was. Tonto got me after I called his horse a dickhead. So you see, Walter 'I left my balls in Saigon' Cronkite, I was most definately 'Injun'ered!!

I remember a USAF film where they had a B-52 Group with the bombers close to each other with the planes pointing in alternating directions. They did a drill with the crews running out to the planes (kinda like a MITO, but with a camera helicopter hovering overhead it was obvious it was 100% staged) The planes started their engines and started moving out, one by one, by going on the diagonal so the distance between their wings and the wings of the bomber next to them stayed the same until the moving bomber was fully cleared. Very amazing to watch! (And I wish I could find it again!! Guessing it was late 50's or early 60's)

@@timengineman2nd714 it's here somewhere, just start search with B-52..😉.

@@seltaeb3302 I have, and couldn't find it. Probably named under some other title....

@@timengineman2nd714 ""Guessing it was late 50's or early 60's)"" - amazing to think that by the time the B52 is scheduled to be retired in several decades time, that some of the airframes will have 100 YEARS on them!!!

@@XXSkunkWorksXX The ones we have now are the last ones made (mid 1960's) so they will be under a century old, but still that is an amazing lifespan for any airplane and even more amazing for a frontline airplane of a world power!!!

BTW Monkey pox is coming Gates let it out of the bag!

Afterburner…us yanks call it afterburner!

@@mattafakkah injured from what?

@@markpirisky2281 🤣 I wondered if my being provocatively British might elicit a remark..... Vive la différance😉

@@mattafakkah I was injured after some twat repeating 'Luckily no one was injured' over and over and over ad nauseum made my piss boil. Scalding my bladder and Vas Deferens. You should be on John Craven's Newsround with your repportage skills and balanced broadcasting style.

I doubt that's full throttle

@@wmx7588 It is when the pilot guns it.

@@mattafakkah I don't know I'd call it luck that no one was injured on a pretty standard take off, but yes, good nonetheless.

@@rubenjapp7626 He tries those smooth talking techniques on men whose bottoms he wishes to fondle. Be careful! he is not a real newscaster, more like a newscustard!

AHHHH why are we going in circles!?

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@@mattafakkah Rockwell built a total of 100 Lancers. As a tribute I played darts with Eric 'The Crafty Cockerney' Bristow and Jocky 'Pies and Lard' Wilson. We 'bullied off' on 100 instead of 101 in honour of the Bone and as usual Jocky WIlson - being Welsh and squat and fat - was also as drunk as a skunk. He pinged a dart of Mrs Coletart's left buttock when she bent over to get a Britvic 55 out the fridge and it got me - bullseye in my eye - causing me much injury and the crowd much laughing. Luckily no one else was injured (except a passing Shrubbery seller called Roger the Shrubber who spilled Leighton Reese's pint and got a bop on the nose for his trouble' I don't think Matthew Ammarillawallah or Sir Peter O'Hanraha-Hanrahan have anything to worry about with your basic mistakes reading the nooz)

landing would be significantly more risky if you had to align the gear with the runway while crabwalking in a crosswind. Although given today’s hardware capabilities, it seems feasible to engineer landing gear that would automatically align with the runway during a heavy crosswind landing

Apparently it achieves enough lift to take off.

@@mattafakkah Actually, I was injured quite badly when the bloody thing ran over my foot instead of taxiing in a straight line like a proper aircraft. My big toe is still swollen and going purple. I think it is going to atrophy and drop off. Stick that in yer pipe and smoke it, Reginald Tindal Kennedy "Reggie" Bosanquet breath.

@@JohnnyAngel8 That is the whole point. Luckily the Naval Aircraft Carriers can steer into the wind while most airport runways are designed with the prevailing winds in mind and are numbered by their compass heading minus the last digit.

SR-71 on takeoff beats it (used to). I know, I have heard and seen both on takeoff.

@@DrT1250 I figured a Habu would out-roar a Bone. I used to sit near the runway and watch/hear/feel them take off. I haven't had the pleasure of watching any Bones, but I have been through large earthquakes, and the SR felt like an earthquake.

@@DrT1250 Haha. Fair enough. I have unfortunately never had the pleasure to hear an SR-71 in person.

Yep. Just a low pass for a photo-op.

I work on them. Flying museum pieces. lol

Flying cake! a leftover legacy of buttered-up cold war thinking and a hangover from the Reagan administration (with Maggie Thatcher as backup)

What do you mean it was a joke? That was a free fare for me. Tickets are expensive!

@@mixtlillness9825 wow

Wasn't it spectacular though lol

@@mattafakkah You don't fool me John 'Motty' Motson haircut. Ronaldo is out for 3 months with a groin strain. Mind you looking at his lovely wife, if I was going out with her my groin would be permenantly strained!! woof woof!

The gyroscopic effect would add more stress to the gear. On light aircrafts, the pilot has to brake before retracting the gear, on ''standard'' it'a automatic.

Not sure, but I believe it is a bit of both heat resistant and air cooled.