Flyover for Saturday's Game:

[Lott's Bandana]

...will be teh AWESOME!!


There will be a B-52 flyover during Saturday's Texas-Oklahoma football game in Dallas, in a tribute to the Barksdale Air Force Base crew killed this past summer in a B-52 crash off the coast of Guam.

Two members of the crew that died had graduated from the universities.

Aircraft commander Maj. Christopher Cooper was a 1997 Air Force ROTC graduate of Texas. Radar navigator Maj. Brent Williams was a 1994 Air Force officer training corps graduate of Oklahoma.

The flyover by a B-52 from Barksdale will be done right after the national anthem that precedes the game at the Cotton Bowl.

Five airmen from Barksdale and an Air Force doctor stationed in Guam were killed when the Barksdale B-52 crashed into the Pacific Ocean during a flyover in Guam. The cause of the crash is under investigation

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[OU_Sooners75]

That is going to be freaking loud!

2000 4th of July in Ponca had 2 B-1 bombers flyover, and it felt like the plane was just overhead, about 10 ft. Freaking loud! I can only imagine what a B-52 will sound like.

[sooneron]

http://www.80smusiclyrics.com/artists/images/b52.jpg

:D


I kid, I kid. I wish I could be there for that!




and the game, of course.

[Lott's Bandana]

http://www.80smusiclyrics.com/artists/images/b52.jpg

:D


I kid, I kid. I wish I could be there for that!




and the game, of course.

Hey, another Athens, GA blackout!

B52's...awesome, I'm going to iTunes.

[CincySooner]

That is going to be freaking loud!

2000 4th of July in Ponca had 2 B-1 bombers flyover, and it felt like the plane was just overhead, about 10 ft. Freaking loud! I can only imagine what a B-52 will sound like.

Don't get your hopes up. The B52 will probably not be as loud as the B1s considering they probably hit the afterburners on the B1 when they were overhead. The B52 doesn't have any A/B capability.

EDIT: That being said, it'll still be pretty sweet.

[Lott's Bandana]

Don't get your hopes up. The B52 will probably not be as loud as the B1s considering they probably hit the afterburners on the B1 when they were overhead. The B52 doesn't have any A/B capability.

EDIT: That being said, it'll still be pretty sweet.

...but if it drops a Tomahawk?

Listen here:
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[1890MilesToNorman]

It it drops anything it will be a single load Mad Cow/Steer Bomb.

The GF's uncle flew BUFFs for over 20 years, a truly great American but sadly he lives in Texas.

[beer4me]

Don't get your hopes up. The B52 will probably not be as loud as the B1s considering they probably hit the afterburners on the B1 when they were overhead. The B52 doesn't have any A/B capability.

EDIT: That being said, it'll still be pretty sweet.

No won't be near as loud the B1 has F101-GE-100 engines with augmentor. Those things are LOUD almost like the old J79's in the phantoms.

But the ole BUFF has a track record the B1 or B2 will never touch.


BOOMER SOONER

[OUMonster]

If we ever have a flyover louder than the one at the 2004 Orange Bowl half the stadium will be permanently deaf.

[Payton]

I'm going to beat you all with a shovel

[mikee likee]

They are not that loud. I work around Barksdale in the flight path. They have more of a loud scream than anything. When they come over at 100 feet it is pretty awesome.

[swardboy]

My dad was machining parts for the B-52 in Wichita when it was still a secret program....early 50's. 50 years of service is just unbelievable. They keep refurbishing the thing and it keeps performing. I'm glad to see it get a prominent stage to perform....and poignant memory of those who serve to keep us free.

[Tulsa_Fireman]

I remember watching 52s flying patterns over Tinker as a kid. We'd go park in the old neighborhood (before the Air Force bought it all up and fenced it off) across I-40 in line with the north runway where they'd touch down in the summer.

To this day, I can picture it in my head, lying back in the bed of my old man's pickup, feeling it rumble underneath me from the noise, and reaching up almost as if you could touch its belly.

Glad to see that big bastard is still flying.