Wiz Buckley
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219 appearances
3 recordings
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first heard Dec 2025
last heard 17 Jun
Wiz Buckley’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I'm going to age myself, but in my nearly four decades of aviation, I can't remember a mishap quite like this.
A fully loaded bomber taken off and immediately crashing.
We don't even know if it took off formally.
And, you know, looking at the wreckage, it's halfway down the runway, it looks like.
Edwards Air Force Base has test runways, and they can even land the space shuttle back in the day out there.
So they're a really long desert runway.
uh runways but um we're gonna have to wait a little bit more so don't know if it was an engine issue um maybe a massive hydraulic failure or you know losing uh flight control authority i i just i'm racking my brain as a military aviator i've been in involved in mishap investigations and i'm at a loss and and a lot of other folks in the military aviation community are as well
When the Air Force uses words like radar modernization program, RMP, that's going to be code words for we're not going to tell you what it was doing, right?
So that's what we expect out of these test pilot folks is for them to be doing some secret squirrel stuff in the desert where there's not a lot of eyeballs or prying eyes.
And the test community is a really –
under reported community and you know there's there's reasons for that obviously because they are obviously doing work uh to keep us on on top and ahead of our enemies but these and before any airplane weapon system or weapon gets to regular young men and women to fly these in combat they gotta they rip them apart and put them through their paces so the same thing if radar modernization program you know that's a lot of big words for they were doing some secret squirrel stuff
Our bomber fleet is aging, and it's kind of an embarrassment, to be honest with you.
I remember flying formation on some of these B-52s.
They look like emaciated dogs.
Like, you could see the ribs.
You see the ribs of the aircraft fuselage.
And I'm like, you know, I'm in a single seat F-18.
I'm talking on the back radio to my buddies like, look at that thing.
There's no way in hell I would get in that thing.
And, you know, going up and down and doing all this test work, it puts a lot of stress on the fuselage, right?
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