I love how the B-52 doesn't rotate before take off, it just lifts into the air. 0:32

"Not as dynamic"? She doesn't need any apologies on her behalf! A fantastic show and spectacle all on her own, expertly handled by her crew. What a graceful touchdown!

Amazing jet! Great video! My first years in Air Force (1983-2012) serving in SAC…she was impressive then as she is today! Can’t wait to see her with new engines and pushing her beyond my years!! Bless those who keep her flying!

@josephnewburgh8531

11 ай бұрын

Thank you for serving sir!❤😊

@donaldcloutier2973

11 ай бұрын

@@josephnewburgh8531 thank you! Loved every day of it!! Met many friends around the world and learned so much from others

@brianmorgan4627

11 ай бұрын

My Dad was S.A.C.

Like an old golf diesel taking off at the traffic lights 😂 love the smoke

Very dynamic flying for a big bro. Loved specially how well you locked onto his approach for landing.

It was special to see this jet back at RIAT. Great footage.Thanks for the share! 😎

Hope one day Riat can get a flypast of the B-52 with the B-1b and B-2 all together. Would be such an awesome sight!

@DafyddPhillips

11 ай бұрын

That would be amazing 🇺🇸✈️👌

@terryboyer1342

11 ай бұрын

Funny thing is when all the B1Bs and B2s are retired and sitting in the desert the BUFF will still be active and flying high!

@rickwilliamson9248

11 ай бұрын

It was nice of the USAF to pull one off for the unveiling of the B-21.

@barniem3148

11 ай бұрын

We almost got that in 2006 / 2007 (can't remember exact year) - the theme that year was "stealth" so we got a B-2 Spirit flyby accompanied by x4 F-15's; and the B-52 & B1 Lancer did a combined display, which was just incredible to see (The noise!!!). This year was my first time going since about 2010 and unfortunately on the Saturday they grounded a lot of the aircraft, due to massive crosswinds - all the heritage stuff and the B-52 😥 the selection on display was quite disappointing though if I compare it to how spoilt we were when attending x3 times prior around '04 / '06 / '10.

sounds absolutely awesome ❤️

Brilliant to see the old B52 at RIAT as it's been a while. Hopefully wouldn't be too long before it's back.

I was 3 yro when the first b52 had its maiden flight. Its a good chance This plane will outlast my lifetime.

Father in law worked on B52 Ds at Utapao Thailand back in 68/69. Great to see them still flying.

What a beast! Love those smoky trails! 😃

@DafyddPhillips

11 ай бұрын

💨💨👌

1952 first flight, amazing. Will be interesting to see it with the new engines.

@simonjackson7269

11 ай бұрын

British engines!!!!

@mcblaze1968

11 ай бұрын

I'm going guess less smokey! BUFF does leave quite the trail.

Still so impressive! Thankyou Dafydd 👍

@DafyddPhillips

11 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching.

Definitely a plane that's at its most exciting when it lands. Assuming the re-engining finally gets done, going to be weird to see them fly without black clouds behind them.

@ClaytonBigsby01

11 ай бұрын

Yeah I can't believe jet fuel Burns that dirty. the new diesel engines are so clean you can't see the exhaust

I worked on the top floor of a building near the flight path of Dobbins ARB in GA. One day a BUFF decided to swing by for about 20 minures of Touch-n-Gos. By the time he was done, he left a black oval smoke trail that you couldn't see thriugh. And oh the sound was glorious!

@DafyddPhillips

11 ай бұрын

Would love to have seen it!! ✈️💨 Thanks for watching.👍

Had an excellent day today at Riat !

Always beautiful to see the B52 fantastic aircraft

@DafyddPhillips

11 ай бұрын

Couldn't agree more!

I just videod one a couple months ago and right after it a c5 galaxy. The camera just cant do these things justice as far as showing the massive size. And that sound 😍😍😍 thank you sir.

@DafyddPhillips

11 ай бұрын

Thank you.

To Dafyyd thank you a million times over for constantly going out there filming them taking photos it keeps us informed on these heroes. Youre great Dafyyd you really are.

@DafyddPhillips

11 ай бұрын

Many thanks Michelle 😎✈️👍

The only plane today's young pilots fly on the same plane as their fathers and grandfathers. Thanks for sharing!

@typhoon2827

11 ай бұрын

BoB flight has entered the chat.

What a great old bird. Thank you very much for sharing. :)

@DafyddPhillips

11 ай бұрын

Many thank for watching 👍

Also notice the 52 was crabbing pretty good just before touchdown. Oh well another day at the office for a 52 driver.

Yehaw Big E! Thanks for the great shots! Must be a blast to fly that giant condor! 🥃🇺🇸🇨🇱

With the way the world is going absolutely crazy we need our service men & women badly. So i say thank you to all of them so much & that they all keep safe keep well THANK YOU TO ALL OF THEM.

Last time I saw one was the First Gulf War. Westover MA Airbase was their last east coast stop before heading over to the UK. Along with a almost constant stream of C-5 Galaxies transporting troops and tanks.

*Spectacular 💪🏻*

She's a beast both inside and out. Use to work on them when Carswell was a bomber wing until it closed.

In Jim Carrie's best voice..."Smokin" !!! Nice vid mate 😊

@DafyddPhillips

11 ай бұрын

Thank you kindly Tony 👍

Thank you USAF for allowing us to explore underneath this beast 🙏

This is a superb footage on this beautiful B-52H Stratofortress 😁😎

@DafyddPhillips

11 ай бұрын

Thanks Douglas.

@douglas_brighty_tan127

11 ай бұрын

@@DafyddPhillips much welcome Phillips !! 😎

May not be as dynamic as the fighter jets but still damn sexy!

In the 80s, I had the honor of flying as a gunner on the G models.

Magnificent Beast...

The sight of this must upset the Stop Oil protests in London!🥳 Could not be more pleased!

@terryboyer1342

11 ай бұрын

How dare you!!! 😂

@michaelsnow7252

11 ай бұрын

Should have done a fly past

@josephlambe2796

11 ай бұрын

Amen I was at Fairford today got the eight engined BUFF on video, yes stuff those just oil fkers, would be great to round all these idiots up get the 52 drop a jdam on the lot of those eco fkrs

@10brucelees

11 ай бұрын

Give your heads a shake

@ZaGaijinSmash

11 ай бұрын

Can you breathe jet exhaust? Muppet.

Saw another vid of this performing a crab walk taxi back to the hangar after this and taking out like 18 runway lights 😅it was awesome

@DafyddPhillips

11 ай бұрын

I’d just left before that happened 🙄👍

Great to see the BUFF in action! Well done Mr. Phillips!

@DafyddPhillips

11 ай бұрын

Thanks John 👍

@JG-rm2ql

11 ай бұрын

Time to change her name to Big insatiable lady BIL😅😅😅

Love it sort of "jumps" off the the tarmac, it was circling around for quite a while, those underneath it's holding pattern will have some soot to clean in the morning,!!, what a great end to the show,,,,

What a ✈️

Red One: Smoke.... on! B52: hold my kerosene.

@DafyddPhillips

11 ай бұрын

🤠💨💨

That bird at 02:45 saw that beast coming and thought: "Nope!"

What a beast!! Awesome video again!! Keep up the good work :)

@DafyddPhillips

11 ай бұрын

Thanks Dylan 👍

Smoke on……..go!

Beautiful. The rotation is almost imperceptible...

Love your content!

@DafyddPhillips

11 ай бұрын

Many thanks for viewing it. 😊

Even the Skylarks were singing her praises!

Was cancelled yesterday when I went 😢

@DafyddPhillips

11 ай бұрын

It was a bit breezy across the runway yesterday sadly

Looked at FlightRadar to see some of the pre-show arrivals on Thursday: happened to catch the USAF group with the ‘Flying Pentagon’ heading home from the NATO meeting.

Great catch again as always 😎

@DafyddPhillips

11 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching, appreciated 👍

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@grandmasterpu

7 ай бұрын

The indicate that its a flagship. The crews aren't assigned to a single aircraft, so anyone can be flying it.

All that black smoke... awesome, I can hear Greta choking in her home town

@DafyddPhillips

11 ай бұрын

🤠💨💨💨

Fantastic

@DafyddPhillips

11 ай бұрын

Thank you! Cheers!

“Shoot a fella could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff.”

Nice footage!👍🏻💙

@DafyddPhillips

11 ай бұрын

Thank you.

How do you shoot down a B-5? Follow the smkoke trail and lead it a bit.

Awesome very nice.

@DafyddPhillips

11 ай бұрын

Thank you.

Long Live the BUFF

Máy bay ném bom hạng nặng B52 có trang bị đầu đạn hạt nhân trên đó rất tuyệt 🇺🇸👍

nice one Daf > are they still flying ?? It's a wonder they fly at all , everything seems to happen in slow motion ! great film of a crab-wise landing .

Nice one!

@DafyddPhillips

11 ай бұрын

Thanks.

👍👍

Couldn't have been too warm there, with everyone wearing coats.

Why couldn’t the lovely Vulcan have fulfilled the same role for Britain as does the B-52 for the US?

Was this filmed in the grass area just in front of the C17 and a bit to the west of it too?

@DafyddPhillips

11 ай бұрын

Yes in FRIAT. 👍

Cajun BUFF

Didn’t know they ran on diesel 🫣🫣🫣

genialllllllllllllllll

I want to know how the USAF manage to keep them flying perfectly well all over the world yet the UK seems to scrap or sell off perfectly good planes claiming 'metal fatigue' etc.

oh so they fly it the day we’re not there okay 😭

@DafyddPhillips

11 ай бұрын

Ouch!!

Sadly I had to leave before I could see these behemoths up close on the runway I saw it circling in the air during the finnish F-18 display but they were very far off I hope they come next year and the weather is better

@jthomas4361

11 ай бұрын

Why did you leave? They put on an amazing display and full length sideways taxi

@NavyThunder_YT

11 ай бұрын

@@jthomas4361 I went with some of my friends and they overreact when it rains 😔

@jthomas4361

11 ай бұрын

@@NavyThunder_YT they’re a bunch of snow flakes

@NavyThunder_YT

11 ай бұрын

@@jthomas4361 agreed

Thanks Davyd! I wonder why they always smoke so much? Quality of fuel? Hmm😮❤

@DafyddPhillips

11 ай бұрын

Good question!

I have just seen one of these on display at Duxford Air Museum, Everywhere you walk in the hanger it is either beside you or above you, It was impressive to see it on the ground and even more so to see them fly.

Super Air force

Was this sat or Sunday ?

@DafyddPhillips

11 ай бұрын

Sunday. Saturdays take off was aborted due to wind

Always impressive . Have same âge like me. But in Good shape and soon re-engineed 👍. .not me😢

I'm wondering if there is a B52 nicknamed the Love Shack?

@DafyddPhillips

11 ай бұрын

😎great song!

@happisakshappiplace.6588

11 ай бұрын

@@DafyddPhillips The album, Cosmic Thing is awesome too.

It's terribly noisy, but at least it smokes a lot.

@DafyddPhillips

11 ай бұрын

Indeed 😁💨💨💨

@samuelweir5985

6 ай бұрын

You mean its flight was terribly short but at least it's noisy and smokes a lot.

The new Rolls Royce engine upgrade shall be a welcome sight in the near future

Despite my love for this machine since long, today I hated the engines for the pollution they generated! God help mother earth

@thomasmoran899

11 ай бұрын

You will be pleased to know that the B-52 is being reengined with Rolls Royce engines, no less!

@badralkhobar

11 ай бұрын

@@thomasmoran899 Thank you for the update. Sooner the better.

Is this the new low emissions model?

@DafyddPhillips

11 ай бұрын

Indeed 😁💨💨💨

Great to see such a low emission aircraft on display 🤔

@DafyddPhillips

11 ай бұрын

The Tesla of the Sky 🤠💨💨

Beautiful ! Any reason why it needs a parachute at the back when stopping ? Don't the breaks work

@samuelweir5985

6 ай бұрын

I'm guessing that the engines don't have thrust reversers like more modern engines do.

I'm not a pacifist, but the fact that these aircraft dropped over half a million pounds of bombs on Laos and Cambodia is a bloody disgrace. The world's richest nation bombing two of the poorest.

With the new engines, they will stop smoking like a diesel powered bomber 😅 I wonder if that will upset some of the smartypants commenters here 😂

Why do B52 aircraft smoke so much in this day and age.

@anthonykaiser974

11 ай бұрын

Because they are still using late 40s jet tech, for now. Enter the B-52J w/RR F130s. Coming soon to an AFB near you.

It's great to watch it there. But, its not a vulcan.

BUFF!

hahahah best in the sky zero on the ground

Cough, Cough, Cough ... remind me why we're being forced to buy Hybrid Cars Boris ...???

so that your amers always equaled the number of ups and downs ☠

Umweltverschmutzung. 1 Klasse

is Greta watching this?

@DafyddPhillips

11 ай бұрын

💨💨💨🤠

How much it polutes? Electric cars haha what a joke

Get yourself checked for lung cancer after that. Those engines look like they’re running on crude oil.

Jez. The B-52, the leading cause of climate change 🤣🤣

I prefer B52 to any fighter!