Salute!
Thanks for all the great pics and video, Bubba!
I kinda figured the tankers were ready to help, and twenty years ago +/- , I watched the Birds practice for the USAFA flyby at graduation. No tanker. But on the day when the blowhard General or whoever spoke, there was a KC-10 out to the west over my cabin so the birds could top off if the dignitary rambled.
I have also noted the single plane on many videos and my guess is it is a photo bird for history and not a spare.
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Hope we don't interfere with the all the Brit banter that dominates this forum, but some of the older, coarse colonials flew with and for the RAF and King back about when I was born. Hell, my flight commander in Deuce school was an RAF Lightning jock. Lottsa ties between the two countries separated by a common language!
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Gums sends...