Video: Landing a B-52 at Barksdale Air Force Base

October 1, 2012 Military Aviation

David Cenciotti

This video will put you aboard a Buff as the strategic bomber intercepts and follows the localizer on an ILS approach for runway 33 and, after landing, taxies to the parking spot among many other B-52s at Barksdale Air Force Base.

Watch the control yoke continuously moving as the pilots direct the huge plane into the approach procedure.

Barksdale’s 307th Bomb Wing/93rd Bomb Squadron recently deployed to Europe, using a radio callsign reminiscent of the WWII and (most probably) of the Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the Benghazi consulate.

B-52 bombers deployed to Europe (for an exercise) using a special radio callsign: the name of a Libyan city (theaviationist.com)

About David Cenciotti

David Cenciotti is a journalist based in Rome, Italy. He is the Founder and Editor of “The Aviationist”, one of the world’s most famous and read military aviation blogs. Since 1996, he has written for major worldwide magazines, including Air Forces Monthly, Combat Aircraft, and many others, covering aviation, defense, war, industry, intelligence, crime and cyberwar. He has reported from the U.S., Europe, Australia and Syria, and flown several combat planes with different air forces. He is a former 2nd Lt. of the Italian Air Force, a private pilot and a graduate in Computer Engineering. He has written five books and contributed to many more ones.