Low altitude penetration

60s dramatic music

The eye patches were procedure during these penetration raids. In case of the sudden flash of an unexpected nuclear detonation (which can blind a man), at least one of their eyes would be protected at all times.

St Marie Montana formally Glasgow SAC base. See the christmas tree bottom right. That was were B52's sat warmed up and ready to go. The runways were warmed and ice free. In this pic the runway has a 3000 ft extention and is still in use by Boeing and Darpa.

No SAC bases left to return to. They would be targeted backup fields might survive but most likely you're landing on Roads. Eisenhauers interstates had strategically designed straight sections just with any obstacles and power lines well away from the sides.

Bad CGI or AI generated animation. I like Kubrick's better and that was done >60 years ago! And the music was better

Lol, this is from a 1960 SAC film

@teachmonkey2fly SAC shows a one-eyed pilot ?! More like a Hollywood crap.

@teachmonkey2fly

How is a guy with one eye a B52 pilot?

Watching this I’m hearing ‘When Jonny Comes Marching Home’ from Strangelove playing in my mind

Dr Strangelove if that’s correct? D.

That plane is so badass

How gloom... Let us pray no air force ever needs to plan for such egress routes

“Low altitude penetration” Is this something like Mile High Club?

That is a tall tail. That is when they discovered they needed the G an H had to be short tail for low level or suffer structural disaster.

Some of the pilots that flies these B- 52s are flying the exact same B-52 one of their family members flew

This was before the B-2 Spirit

You know things are gonna get ugly when the pilot uses an eye patch.

That was fun, OP. Thanks for posting. Not seen it before.

I'M GONNA GET THEM BOMB BAY DOORS OPEN EVEN IF IT HARE LIPS EVERYONE ON BEAR CREEK!

That’s what she said

Is a piglet with one eye for real?

They're not one eyed, they just wear a patch to protect one eye from the nuclear flash

Thank you. He looked kind of rouge. So I can safely fly on airplanes knowing I don’t have a one eyed pilot at the stick?

Why have the pilots got eyepatches on

The flight crew when they hit a thermal or rough patch of air

That's... a "little" far away from your 'Drop-zone', isn't it?!

صلح بدون جنگ ممکن نیست.

Il ne faut jamais oublier que les USA ont envoyé plus de Bombes sur le Nord Vietnam que pendant toute la 2eme guerre mondiale, après avoir décimé les Indiens. Tous des Criminels !!

Now they kill with rain.

Listen to this:

The eye patch was worn so that they could pretend they were pirates. 😉