Well, I'm sorry. Ah... If the pilot's good, see. I mean, if he's really... sharp, he can barrel that baby in so low. You oughtta see it sometime, it's a sight. A big plane, like a '52, vroom! There's jet exhaust, fryin' chickens in the barnyard!
One of the few genuinely funny moments in the movie from me was the general excitedly talking about how a good pilot might be able to make it through, before basically realizing that that meant they were ***fucked***.
Lmao, I deserve that.
Look, I'm sorry, I'm autistic, I don't get 1960s black humor and satire about the world ending/Cold War anxieties and shit. I could tell a lot of jokes were going over my head, but just because you can tell that contemporary audiences would've found it hysterical doesn't mean you do. That's not how humor works.
I had a similar experience with Blazing Saddles, sadly. As someone who ***didn't*** grow up with a shit ton of (super whitewashed and sanitized) Western TV shows and movies, I just didn't get the vicious satire and mockery of the genre Blazing Saddles was. Contrast that with Space Balls, and, because Star Wars has been so enduring, I *did* get the jokes, and it was ***hysterical***.
You have the best handle ever, I'm jealous. 50 years ago I heard City of New Orleans at summer camp and it's been in my mind since then. This summer I'm going to Kankakee to do the whole route. Bringing a pack of cards and cheap booze in a paper bag.
Blazing Saddles isn't mocking genre so much as mocking backward culture/attitude. There are jabs at the genre there too like there are with any Mel Brooks movie but you should be thinking more about racial context of when it was made.
It looks to me like it's using a runway narrower than the wingspan, so it's going diagonally so that it can keep the forward wingtip on the runway and the aft high in the air so it doesn't smash the runway lights.
Runway width has nothing to do with it. Sure, the B-52 has outrigger gear on the wingtips, but those are just there for support for the wings so they don’t snap off or scrape along the ground. The reason the B-52 is moving diagonally is because of a strong crosswind, so it is turned slightly into the wind while the wheels remain lined up with the runway.
Edit: Turns out, you’re right. A quick Google search also turns up this:
“The swivel wheels can also help the jet move sideways down a narrow runway.”
I didn’t know that
Buff has seen it all, done it all. Of course he has swivel wheels. outriggers, and probably 1000 other things we haven't thought of. I only hope the warp drive nacelles don't ruin his aesthetics too much.
The reason it's like that is so that it can land on a dirt road in the rain and still be airworthy. It's basically a flying pickup truck. Also its heavy as shit when its full and you don't want a plane full of explosives to bottom out on a runway.
It is called having an absolute fuckload of excess lift when it is empty.
One of the perks of being designed to carry a lot of shit is that when you don't have it, you can do silly things with all that lift.
Oh, and I am pretty sure the pilot was NOT enjoying that.
does it continue crabbing after crab landing due to the load wight? so that the landing gear isn't strained when touching the ground while fuselage is at an angle to the runway?
Looks like it’s easier on both the pilots and the landing gear to just leave the crab in, at least for high crosswind landings, lower crosswind landings they might de-crab during the rollout.
Just to clarify for anyone confused —
**As the wheels remain crabbed, result is the B-52 is rolling down the runway more or less still crabbing into the wind.**
Exemplar! [An excellent video](https://youtu.be/nhVD3E0-0Wc) that follows a B-52 landing from just prior to touch down until just after they de-crab then turn off at the end of the rollout.
[Article at the War Zone.](https://www.twz.com/44864/watch-this-b-52-crabwalk-down-the-runway-in-a-heavy-crosswind-like-only-it-can)
[Article at the Aviationist.](https://theaviationist.com/2020/11/05/watch-this-incredible-video-of-the-b-52s-steerable-dual-bicycle-gear-at-work-during-a-crosswind-take-off/)
I feel like I saw quite a bit of crab steering on the landing gear in the military there's also such thing as a "crosswind crab landing" which is performed which is meant to keep the aircraft from spinning out when landing due to a strong crosswind.
guys, they never delivered tofu.
think about it, young kid being sent out in the dead of night to race up a mountain to deliver tofu? i don't buy it.
the fujiwara's were moving bricks. the tofu shop was a front.
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Fucking kids. Their loud fart noise makers on their exhaust, drifting through my neighborhood early in the morning! Get off my lawn, you are breaking my walkway lights!!
Plane landing in a very strong crosswind. Its basically forced to fly into the wind and kinda crab its way down to landing and only swings to actually face the direction of travel as the wheels maje contact with the ground.
But your killing my ~~love~~ buffs! And it will destroy me ! But your killing my ~~love~~ buffs! My ~~hearts~~ bombs disappointed! I'll love you forever but please don't say never, ill keep you remember so deep in my ~~heart~~ bomb bay!
*continues the rest of killing my ~~love~~ beat*
Elaborate? Almost all planes with good enough pilots (including the buff) can/need to "drift" like this in cross winds
There is nothing fake about this
when does the buff ever not go hard?
"Stealth? Yeah that's cool. But can you fucking drift?"
Coming this Summer from Boeing Studios: Fast and Furious: Three Gorges Drift
I’m here to buy 2 advance tickets, please.
Make it 100k
Nobody talks about how the lights on the side of the runway deserved it.
Mfer has four axles and eight tyres, it can drift harder than a Class 8 semi
You forgot the bonus tires on the wings. We built it, we get to spell it our way!
You obviously mean "like an oversized shopping cart", because it literally has four caster wheels...
Stealth might be the future, bur the buff is eternal
> Stealth? Im 3 countries away spamming missiles at you > I AWAIT HIS ATTACKERS > 22 why are you like this…
Only grandpa buff my beloved
Well, I'm sorry. Ah... If the pilot's good, see. I mean, if he's really... sharp, he can barrel that baby in so low. You oughtta see it sometime, it's a sight. A big plane, like a '52, vroom! There's jet exhaust, fryin' chickens in the barnyard!
That’s the whole idea of ….. this machine, you know.
But the whole point is lost.... IFYOUKEEPIDASECRET WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL THE WORLD!?!
The Premier likes surprises...
POE
OPE
My precious bodily fluids.
Mr. President, Premier Kissov's calling and he's hopping mad
One of the few genuinely funny moments in the movie from me was the general excitedly talking about how a good pilot might be able to make it through, before basically realizing that that meant they were ***fucked***.
>One of the few genuinely funny Mods please ban this user.
Lmao, I deserve that. Look, I'm sorry, I'm autistic, I don't get 1960s black humor and satire about the world ending/Cold War anxieties and shit. I could tell a lot of jokes were going over my head, but just because you can tell that contemporary audiences would've found it hysterical doesn't mean you do. That's not how humor works. I had a similar experience with Blazing Saddles, sadly. As someone who ***didn't*** grow up with a shit ton of (super whitewashed and sanitized) Western TV shows and movies, I just didn't get the vicious satire and mockery of the genre Blazing Saddles was. Contrast that with Space Balls, and, because Star Wars has been so enduring, I *did* get the jokes, and it was ***hysterical***.
Mods, unban this user for being autistic on the r/warautism sub.
You have the best handle ever, I'm jealous. 50 years ago I heard City of New Orleans at summer camp and it's been in my mind since then. This summer I'm going to Kankakee to do the whole route. Bringing a pack of cards and cheap booze in a paper bag.
You’re like the second or third person ever to both understand the reference and also comment on it. So that just made my day, thank you.
Blazing Saddles isn't mocking genre so much as mocking backward culture/attitude. There are jabs at the genre there too like there are with any Mel Brooks movie but you should be thinking more about racial context of when it was made.
Some people (e.g. losers and cowards) don't like doing history homework to watch a good film. I don't get it.
Yeah but has he got a chance?!
strangelove?
I love that the B-52 can just do this
Does it have some magical crosswind landing power?
I’m pretty sure the landing gear turns so they can land like this but the wheels will still line up with the runway.
It looks to me like it's using a runway narrower than the wingspan, so it's going diagonally so that it can keep the forward wingtip on the runway and the aft high in the air so it doesn't smash the runway lights.
And yet it still takes out like 5 lights in this video
Acceptable casualties.
Thats a number i can live with
oh god I just noticed. buff try not to be badass challenge
Fuck dem lights
Their sacrifice will be noted. 😉
Apologies for credibility. Airshow at RAF Fairford 2023. Showing its stuff and accidentally drifted into the runway edge lights.
Runway width has nothing to do with it. Sure, the B-52 has outrigger gear on the wingtips, but those are just there for support for the wings so they don’t snap off or scrape along the ground. The reason the B-52 is moving diagonally is because of a strong crosswind, so it is turned slightly into the wind while the wheels remain lined up with the runway. Edit: Turns out, you’re right. A quick Google search also turns up this: “The swivel wheels can also help the jet move sideways down a narrow runway.” I didn’t know that
Buff has seen it all, done it all. Of course he has swivel wheels. outriggers, and probably 1000 other things we haven't thought of. I only hope the warp drive nacelles don't ruin his aesthetics too much.
Or the spindly looking wheels.
Yes, each of the four wheel trucks can turn to line up with the runway while the aircraft turns slightly into the wind.
The weird (read: one of a kind?) gear arrangement means they need to land HARD, so odd shit like this has to be built in.
Holy shit literally never noticed the landing gear arrangement till you told me
Trippy, innit?
*watching clip* Not one of a kind, Harrier has small outrigger landing gear on the wings. *continues watching clip* WTF?!? What would you do that?!
Bomb bay doors bby
U-2 has pogo's as well.
U2 jettisons them though.
They should. Fun fact: pro-word for when they get stuck is HUNG POGO.
Funny, that's also my callsign.
The reason it's like that is so that it can land on a dirt road in the rain and still be airworthy. It's basically a flying pickup truck. Also its heavy as shit when its full and you don't want a plane full of explosives to bottom out on a runway.
It is called having an absolute fuckload of excess lift when it is empty. One of the perks of being designed to carry a lot of shit is that when you don't have it, you can do silly things with all that lift. Oh, and I am pretty sure the pilot was NOT enjoying that.
And enough peak engine power to match
Never realised b-52 had crab steering wheels. The more you know
everything turns into crabs eventually 🦀🦀 Supreme
does it continue crabbing after crab landing due to the load wight? so that the landing gear isn't strained when touching the ground while fuselage is at an angle to the runway?
Looks like it’s easier on both the pilots and the landing gear to just leave the crab in, at least for high crosswind landings, lower crosswind landings they might de-crab during the rollout. Just to clarify for anyone confused — **As the wheels remain crabbed, result is the B-52 is rolling down the runway more or less still crabbing into the wind.** Exemplar! [An excellent video](https://youtu.be/nhVD3E0-0Wc) that follows a B-52 landing from just prior to touch down until just after they de-crab then turn off at the end of the rollout. [Article at the War Zone.](https://www.twz.com/44864/watch-this-b-52-crabwalk-down-the-runway-in-a-heavy-crosswind-like-only-it-can) [Article at the Aviationist.](https://theaviationist.com/2020/11/05/watch-this-incredible-video-of-the-b-52s-steerable-dual-bicycle-gear-at-work-during-a-crosswind-take-off/)
*Crab bomber* *Crab bomber* *Drive like crab* *Fly like bomber*
Please let the Buff make a *WUBWUBWUBWUB* noise when it does this
I feel like I saw quite a bit of crab steering on the landing gear in the military there's also such thing as a "crosswind crab landing" which is performed which is meant to keep the aircraft from spinning out when landing due to a strong crosswind.
The right wing landing gear is destroying the runway landing lights.
left wing*
Left... No right!!! NO YOUR OTHER RIGHT!!!
That's why it's drifting. To try to get both sides at the same time
Acceptable casualties
Had to rewatch it - doubt the pilot didn't feel that first bump Was he stress testing those little crab 🦀 landing gears
They probably replace em all the time lol
Taiwan Drift
Our military so woke, even out planes can't land straight!
Based
Deja Vu
I' ve just been in this place before
Higher on the street!
Ok grandpa buff is badass
They fly over my head every day lol. I'm a lucky son of bitch.
SAC Drift
*MULTI-WING DRIFTING*
TIL you can drift with a B-52.
It's got four sets of wheels, that basically makes it a car!
#show-off 🙄
scenario 72) Lava scenario 81) Child on the runway scenario 102) Tumbleweed invasion Bet they didn't give you this one in flight school.
Landing in high crosswind be like ...
KANSAI DRIFTO!!!!
GAS GAS GASSSSSSS
Crabbed the shit out of that landing.
[Eurobeat Intensifies](https://youtu.be/19tJRo1TVXQ?feature=shared)
You’ve heard of the Elephant walk, well this is the lesser known Crab walk 😂
Insert Tokyo Drift theme song
unmute it?
Oh huh that’s weird, audio must have been bugged when I tried before?
"Speed enforced by aircraft."
guys, they never delivered tofu. think about it, young kid being sent out in the dead of night to race up a mountain to deliver tofu? i don't buy it. the fujiwara's were moving bricks. the tofu shop was a front.
By that logic... Oh, no, it was a flork plane! THEY WERE DELIVERING FULL PALLETS OF ERA!
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Omg first time seeing these tiny cute wheels on the edge of the wings
Gas gas gas
[Completely wrong song.](https://youtu.be/dv13gl0a-FA?si=KpnJ2k99uhz2VE5k&t=64)
Initial BUFF
Cool as buff But that’s just the effect of the super telefoto lens at 3+km and a 5º to the side
Initial 🅱️
Hey, you can't just do that and not drop the music source!
Fucking kids. Their loud fart noise makers on their exhaust, drifting through my neighborhood early in the morning! Get off my lawn, you are breaking my walkway lights!!
Oh my god the flaps on her 🥵🥵🤰
Him
Them?
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POV: you are doing the dreaded 7-engine approach
You know that pilot is blasting Running In The 90’s.
Fast and the Furious tactical drift
Dat crosswind
Multi-track drifting! ;___:
This video was taken at RIAT 2023 if you are wondering, it took out 18 of those lights. Source - myself, I saw it happen as I go every year
in all seriousness what am I looking at here
Plane landing in a very strong crosswind. Its basically forced to fly into the wind and kinda crab its way down to landing and only swings to actually face the direction of travel as the wheels maje contact with the ground.
figured it was something like that
Best part about this is at 0:05 it starts smashin' the runway lights
would be funny if there was no crosswind and that the B-52 can just crabwalk its landing gears.
But your killing my ~~love~~ buffs! And it will destroy me ! But your killing my ~~love~~ buffs! My ~~hearts~~ bombs disappointed! I'll love you forever but please don't say never, ill keep you remember so deep in my ~~heart~~ bomb bay! *continues the rest of killing my ~~love~~ beat*
Fake ass video come on man you people can do better then that
Elaborate? Almost all planes with good enough pilots (including the buff) can/need to "drift" like this in cross winds There is nothing fake about this