Watch a B-1 Lancer bomber buzz photographers on take off from Al Udeid airbase

March 21, 2015 Military Aviation, Troubled Areas, War on ISIS

David Cenciotti

Head-on take off by a “Bone” deployed to Qatar to fight ISIS

B-1’s take off at Al Udeid, west of Doha, in Qatar, where the U.S. Air Force has based its heavy bombers to fight ISIS in Iraq and Syria can become really breathtaking if you observe the head-on departure of a Lancer coming low over you: this is what you can (almost) experience by simply watching the following video.

Noise abatement and safety procedures stateside usually prevent such maneuvers to be performed at Dyess or Ellsworth Air Force Base.

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.

WpnsLoader175 says:

March 22, 2015 at 1:57 AM

All well and good, until someone wants a gun run…
jo says:

March 22, 2015 at 12:47 PM

Can you repeat this vid 10x more?
Furor Teutonicus says:

March 22, 2015 at 1:28 PM

“Buzzed??????????????”

It was a normal take off. The wankers with the cameras just happened to be standing underneath the flight path.