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B-52's at Minot

Posted: 01 May 2009, 15:09
by maddog65
http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html ... d=playlist

Fox news story about the 5th Bomb Wing doing the old cold war drills of close separation take-offs. you need to fast forward till about 33 seconds left in the segment.

Les

Posted: 25 Aug 2009, 18:45
by GZR_Sactargets
Minimum Interval Take-Off (MITO). This used to be a regular event when there were many SAC bases. Desired interval is 15 seconds. I went through many of them. #3 was always fun because of roll from the preceeding aircraft turbulence. You had little control until you got out of it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJ7niLYSVFo