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B-52 My ride as a journalist in a BUFF RAW UNEDITED VIDEO of a stunning and remarkable airplane, a jewel of good-old American engineering (More) RAW UNEDITED VIDEO of a stunning and remarkable airplane, a jewel of good-old American engineering and design.
Nothing fancy about my video footage, and I don't expect to get good ratings, BUT... not many taxpayers get the thrill of riding up front in a BUFF (Big Ugly Fat Fella) and I wanted to share this experience with other fans of this really amazing aircraft...
This isn't a news package that aired as an edited report on TV, that story is LONG GONE. This is simply the raw video footage (old analog) in an unedited state. When I got back from my flight in this airplane during a trip in 1982, I knew it would be my "Flight Of A Lifetime..." and I knew I should save the footage and share it with other folks. My original footage has deteriorated, but this amazing airplane is still going strong!
I wish I were a young man again and had a chance to videotape this ride with a small hand-held camcorder. The camera/recorder package I used for this was developed in the late 1970s (during the Fred Flintstone era of Electronic News-gathering) and it was like dragging a 50 pound ball-and-chain around in the B-52. The camera was hooked up to a ten-foot-cord running to a 30 pound external recorder. It was so hard to get many of the shots, being strapped down to the recorder and the camera was massive, compared to what we have today. Think of something a little larger than a cinder-block (and much heavier) sitting on your right shoulder hooked to a a box the size of a small steel-safe on a cord on the other end. Ah, I wish I had a Sony Mini-DV camera for this trip :) but this was 1982 :( not 2007. The shots were hard to keep steady because the air was a tad turbulent. I thought of how skilled the pilot and the person flying the boom needed to be.
I suspect we were fling somewhere around 20,000 feet. I wish I could contact the pilot who flew this BUFF out of Dyess back in 1982 and let him see this video.
My thrill of a lifetime was to fly in a BUFF and I simply wanted to put this footage on YouTube to share with other folks who are fans of this amazing airplane.
I was a young soldier in Vietnam when the BUFF was active in rooting out Charlie. To witness the power of this machine when it was delivering it's payload was incredible. Although I never actually saw the BUFF up close, you could be many miles away and hear the bombs... just like a thunderstorm here in West Texas, except the "boom' wasn't a single crack of lightening, the bomb noise seemed to be longer "woosh, woosh, woosh... "
The BUFF has been delivering US Foreign Policy around the globe (typically in 24 hours or less) for the past 5 decades and this impressive bird has a service life with no end in sight. Imagine that... designed by a bunch of guys in Seattle starting in the late 40s, and this bird in 2007 is still kicking some very serious butt!
I went on a refueling mission from Texas over Utah and a practice bombing run over Arizona. I had to take a high altitude chamber course through the US Air Force before flying in the Big Ugly Fat Fellow (BUFF) as it is affectionately referred to by vets and the military.
I hope you enjoy this raw-unedited footage. I wanted to share this experience... no music, no fancy graphics -- just the thrill of being up-front in a historic B-52 designed by a bunch of Boeing engineers in white shirts with slide rules back in the late 1940s... (Less)
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