B-52 fly-by of aircraft carrier. "look down"

March 10, 2020, 07:27 PM

corsair

quote:
Originally posted by pedropcola:
That looks photoshopped. Overcast day, throwing shadow directly beneath aircraft. Good story fake photo is my bet. Not to mention the whole “we don’t have you” nonsense. So a CBG can’t find a 70 year old buff inbound?

If a E-2 isn't up, a carrier with it's own sensors will likely to have a hard time picking up anything coming in low...that's why low-level is an effective tactic. The attached cruiser that handles anti-air likely picked it up as would the rest of the escorts, as it watches the BUFF do its approach; it's a fun story, don't spoil it.

March 10, 2020, 07:34 PM

Skins2881

quote:
Originally posted by Muddflap:
I was hoping they would show when it circled around and landed on the carrier.

Can they fit on a carrier and/or stop before going over the edge?

March 10, 2020, 08:28 PM

pedropcola

I’m not trying to spoil it but that picture looks fake as hell. Of course a B52 could and has do a low level next to a carrier. Does no one think that picture looks dodgy? Hell, the picture of the great white shark biting the helicopter under the Golden Gate Bridge looks more real than these. Whatever, it’s the internet so it must be real. Lol

Next let’s post the video of the plane flying with only one wing. How many times has that made the rounds? Or the drone hitting the airliner. Or, or, or.

March 10, 2020, 09:22 PM

LS1 GTO

quote:
Originally posted by navyshooter:
I was there when that happen and saw it live. It was one of the most impressive things I'd ever seen
I was on one of Rangers escorts so it was a slightly different veiw

You're going to refresh my memory on this one, I was in VF-2 at the time and don't recall this event and just to check my memory, the pic didn't make it into the Desert Storm cruise book nor the 89 cruise book.

Also, knowing first hand how HUGE a B-52 is (its tail ain't ever [intentionally] flying lower than the flightdeck, them photos are not quite the correct perspective.

With that, there are/were more than a few photos of other the aircraft that low along with a B-1B doing a simulated landing on the deck.

Navyshooter, you may have seen a B-52 skimming the surface between you and the Ranger, but that aircraft was not as close as the picture(s) make it seem nor did the peeps on deck see it as well as depicted in the pics.

There were two (2) Tornadoes who did come out of Iraq at wave top level to hide from radar, 10 - 15 degrees off our bow and then pop up about 500 yards away. They were using the ship's radar signature as cover.

Also, we had a FAG come out of country fast and low radio silent and with his IFF turned off. The ship thought it was an anti-ship missile and we went to GQ (for realz bro!!). The FAG was about 30 seconds away from a full counter defense before realizing his radio was off and no one could hear him - the recordings literally sounded like the guy was shitting himself as he was screaming "don't shoot, don't shoot, I'm a friendly and I hate the Dodgers." (Look up where the Ranger's home port was, it'll make sense.)

March 10, 2020, 11:58 PM

rkentm

I was assigned to the USS Jouett (CG-29) during Operation Desert Shield and we had two BUFFs who I believe were out of Diego Garcia, do a super low fly-by. We were part of the task force that included the USS Independence and that’s about the view we saw that day.

March 11, 2020, 03:41 AM

sns3guppy

I have encountered B52's in flight inside the grand canyon several times, below the rim.

March 11, 2020, 07:16 AM

navyshooter

quote:
Originally posted by LS1 GTO:
quote:
Originally posted by navyshooter:
I was there when that happen and saw it live. It was one of the most impressive things I'd ever seen
I was on one of Rangers escorts so it was a slightly different veiw

You're going to refresh my memory on this one, I was in VF-2 at the time and don't recall this event and just to check my memory, the pic didn't make it into the Desert Storm cruise book nor the 89 cruise book.

Also, knowing first hand how HUGE a B-52 is (its tail ain't ever [intentionally] flying lower than the flightdeck, them photos are not quite the correct perspective.

With that, there are/were more than a few photos of other the aircraft that low along with a B-1B doing a simulated landing on the deck.

Navyshooter, you may have seen a B-52 skimming the surface between you and the Ranger, but that aircraft was not as close as the picture(s) make it seem nor did the peeps on deck see it as well as depicted in the pics.

There were two (2) Tornadoes who did come out of Iraq at wave top level to hide from radar, 10 - 15 degrees off our bow and then pop up about 500 yards away. They were using the ship's radar signature as cover.

Also, we had a FAG come out of country fast and low radio silent and with his IFF turned off. The ship thought it was an anti-ship missile and we went to GQ (for realz bro!!). The FAG was about 30 seconds away from a full counter defense before realizing his radio was off and no one could hear him - the recordings literally sounded like the guy was shitting himself as he was screaming "don't shoot, don't shoot, I'm a friendly and I hate the Dodgers." (Look up where the Ranger's home port was, it'll make sense.)

What I remember is the 2 B-52's were very low to the water and closer to us the the CV. I do not remember this happening in the gulf but off the west coast between her home port and Pearl. I also don't remember them going by twice, but I was inside the skin of the ship until the 1MC announced that 2 B-52's were going to do a low altitude high speed fly by.

April 1988 to June 1991 was a busy time for me. I was underway on the USS Rodney M. Davis, USS Paul F. Foster, USS O'Brien, USS Princeton and the USS LaSalle. I only missed 2 or 3 months of flight deck pay during that time frame. After 30 years I find that they all kind of blur together

March 11, 2020, 09:14 AM

RHINOWSO

I don't care who you are, that is impressively low.

We'd get low in the F-14 but flybys would always be about level to the Boss in the Tower, or about 50-75' above the flight deck or about 150' altitude.

You'd get your ass in a sling doing a deck level flyby when I was in, but as long as people were looking 'up' at you, nobody seemed to care much.

March 11, 2020, 10:28 AM

LS1 GTO

quote:
Originally posted by RHINOWSO:
I don't care who you are, that is impressively low.

We'd get low in the F-14 but flybys would always be about level to the Boss in the Tower, or about 50-75' above the flight deck or about 150' altitude.

You'd get your ass in a sling doing a deck level flyby when I was in, but as long as people were looking 'up' at you, nobody seemed to care much.

That whole sucking in salt water doesn't do the engines any favors.

Also, the tail of a B-52 is 40' and the flight deck of a Forrestal Class carrier is 45' off the water (avg).

Either the photo is doctored or, at a minimum, the photo's perspective is very deceiving. This is not to say a B-52 didn't do a low-level flyby, but it wasn't as low as the pic shows.