12 B52s take off from Barksdale AFB

I used to have to travel a lot for my job and i had to stay at the Holliday Inn that was on I-20 across from Barksdale. One morning the hotel room started shaking and the loudest noise ever ever. 5 B52s took off and wow it was an experience thought it was the rapture...lol

cool story bro

lol, Trust me, you dont want to be raptured.

The rapture is a one way ticket for the wicked.

Those are some big birds!

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What direction were they headed. Had one fly over last week headed to Barksdale really low. Been years since they flew over the house, used to be common in the 90's.

12 back to back, there wouldn't be any hiding that and it would grab plenty of attention.

When I was a kid I lived in a trailer park on Hwy 80 and the flight path of B52's taking off came right over my trailer. They were low enough that if you looked close enough you could see the tail lettering. Lots of loud noise coming out of eight engines running at 100%.

Later in life I dated a gal whose father was a B52 pilot. Dunderheaded me never thought about sitting down with this Major and pick his brain about B52's. I had other things on my mind. (Like a pretty gal with big juggies)

But what was really neat was to go onto the base and look at the bunkers where the nukes were stored. Heck, the security at that time was so loose that civilians could get on the base through a back gate that was unlocked. They would travel down a dirt road to a lake and go bass fishing. If you continued on the road you'd hit a paved road which went right past the nuke bunkers. Good times for a young lad.

If I may be so bold to tell people I was in the Air Force for 10 years and I will let you know I was working on the flight line on different aircraft. The Air Force tries to fly sorties as many as possible to train the pilots and to keep the aircraft airworthy. I was a crew chief on f4d models F-16 and at one time on c-130s

The reason I'm saying this is so people understand that just because they see military aircraft in the air that it doesn't mean that they're headed toward a theater of operation outside there HomeBase

Yep, 100%, but you know GLP, everything is always active worst case live event.

I miss them flying over during the day. Night, not so much lol

1 MOAR WOOD MAKE IT A BAKERZ DOZEN..YUMM. UH.

My Dad was a Col at a S.A.C. Air Force base in Blytheville, Arkansas. They used to have drills where between 8-16 B52s would take of in very short intervals. My Dad would obviously know when these drills were and we'd park at the end of the runway just off base and watch them take off. They'd be screaming about 60-80ft over my head. They were very loud and very big. It was a very, very cool experience.

this is not 1 or 2 mil birds nor 8, 12 DIVERSE birds.

is 12 SAME birds. and BIG.

pin this as there have been gibberish comments to ttry to derail the OP share

That was the opening move in Day 1 of the Desert Storm air war.

I would assume war with Syria or Iran is about to go hot.

Great video.



Last Edited by JustmeTX on 03/18/2021 09:54 PM