B-52 Take-Off by junge1

Photography • Aviation • posted on Dec 13, 2008

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This B-52 is taking of with water-injection at Anderson AFB, Guam, Mariana Islands, Micronesia. Certain older model B-52s used water-injection for take-off when maximum thrust was required. On a KC-135A tanker, which used J-57 engines, similar to some models of the B-52, for the initial 2 minute take-off run 650 gallons of fuel, plus 650 gallons of distilled water were used. This provided 1) more thrust, 2) more noise, and 3) much more smoke. Engines with water injections are no longer being used. This picture was taken in April 1988 and later scanned. Thank you for viewing and commenting on my most recent upload. I appreciate the comments. I was in the Air Force, and I think we were much better off than guys in the Army or Marine Corps in Vietnam. I did not suffer any adverse after effects from my deployment, but then I really did not experience that much. As my much younger buddies fondly tease me with a quote I had made, 'I was blessfully unaware of what was going on over there', referring to the big picture, Sig....

Comments (51)

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emmecielle

5:18AM | Sun, 14 December 2008

Great capture! :)

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erlandpil

5:26AM | Sun, 14 December 2008

Great capture erland

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bmac62

8:13AM | Sun, 14 December 2008

Great shot Sig. As a guy who likes to go to air shows and post the results, this is my kind of photo :-) I've done a little nosing around...your rabid airplane guys (like me) will more readily see a shot like this in the Aviation genre. Got any more? Best to you my friend, Bill

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timtripp

9:02AM | Sun, 14 December 2008

excellent photograph!

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durleybeachbum

9:03AM | Sun, 14 December 2008

A superb photo!

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Kaartijer

9:53AM | Sun, 14 December 2008

Excellent capture, thanks for the info!

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junge1

11:28AM | Sun, 14 December 2008

@bmac62. Thanks for the information Bill and I appreciate your comments. It is nice to know that there are others out there that are aircraft enthusiasts. I will post future aircraft uploads under the Aviation genre. Generally speaking, the faster the aircraft and the noisier, the better I like it. I have many more aircraft pictures, some need to be scanned, others need to be found, but I lost about 2,000 slides in 1980 when I moved to Georgia to attend the U of G, all of them from my time I spent in SEA including the crashed B-52 D and damage from the rocket attack. Pictures lost also included C-133, C-124, WB-47, Air America black painted C-123, Pilatus, Caribou, F-105, a Vigilante that came in to Da Nang, F-100, B-57, E-3A (Navy), the AC-47 (Puff)and one I took on the sly, a Cambodian badged T-28 (in Thailand). But my buddy and I have gone to many airshows, including the Reno Air Races, and I will post aircraft occasionally, Sig....

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pixelmeister

1:45PM | Sun, 14 December 2008

Darn cool shot!

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Lunastar

7:28PM | Sun, 14 December 2008

Great capture.

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Richardphotos

8:28PM | Sun, 14 December 2008

outstanding information and I was unaware of the use of water. I know when they take off, it is unmistakable that they are present. another superb capture

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dbrv6

10:10PM | Sun, 14 December 2008

All that steel all that power! Great capture. I did not know about the water element and why the takes off looked like that at times. Thanks for sharing.

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