Wings - B-52 Stratofortress - Part 1

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Remember the documentary series called Wings that the Discovery Channel used to air over a decade ago? It also translated into series named Wings Over the Gulf, Wings of the Red Star, Wings Over the Pacific, and even spawned a weekday edition at 6 pm called Weekday Wings. Remember the Wings Marathon on New Year's Day? Here is a little bit of nostalgia from those days. My best friend's uncle taped all of the episodes from one or two marathons and he (the best friend) gave them to me literally days before he went off to basic training. I didn't edit out most of the commercials you see since, well, they do show their age.

Here is part 1 of 2 of the B-52 Stratofortress.

Channel: Autos & Vehicles
Uploaded: July 4, 2007 at 6:55 am
Author: airshowfansh

Length: 00:17:38
Rating: 4.61
Views: 33153

Tags: Wings Over Gulf Red Star Pacific Weekday Documentary Discovery Channel Airplane B-52 B52 B-52H B52H Stratofortress

Video Comments:
leonleonceur (October 27, 2008 at 3:57 pm)
Which is bigger (In both payload, tonnes and legenth) This, The Tu-95 or the Tu-160. If none of theese hold the top spot tell me whicho bomber does.
SomeDumbYankee (November 13, 2008 at 5:29 am)
The Tu-160 is bigger in all respects. It carries about 25% more ordnance and is both heavier, longer, and wider (with wings fully spread).

The Tu-95 is really a more comparable aircraft to the B-52.
zipacna1980 (November 13, 2008 at 4:20 pm)
Tu-95 is close to B-52 in terms of range and speed but lacks it's payload.

Of course, Tu-160 is in a higher league, but it is at least 10 times more expensive to build/maintain.
hotlanta35 (September 23, 2008 at 12:55 pm)
B-52s shot down some mig fishbeds in vietnam with its tail gun
leonleonceur (October 27, 2008 at 3:55 pm)
Really? Thats just fucked up.
zipacna1980 (September 22, 2008 at 6:57 pm)
I doubt it is possible to use it in it's main role - as nuclear bomber against russia. One of every six participating b-52s were shot down during Linebacker II operation in Nam which is far from being such defended as russia is.
simplymortified (November 11, 2008 at 4:10 am)
Difference is in the mission profiles, the Vietnam raids involved traveling through Vietnamese airspace over the target area and then back out again, giving considerable opportunity for air defenses to intercept. The mission profile for a strike on Russia utilized the B52 as a stand off weapon, essentially as a first stage for the 20 or so cruise missiles it carried, these would be launched closer enough to hit there targets, but far enough away from Russian air defenses to avoid being hit.
ODRANOEL997 (July 25, 2008 at 12:05 am)
I remember something I read about the engineers who re-designed the B52 in just one night of hard work before expiring the time for the bidding for the new plane.
Someone has better information about this story?
skipplet (September 4, 2008 at 4:16 am)
Absolutely no way you can redesign an aircraft in a single night. Pieces of it maybe, but even then.
simpsonstewie (June 7, 2008 at 9:05 am)
ohh i remember that when i was like 7 or 8 yrs old. i got mad at my dad because he wouldn't change the channel off the stupid animals