Originally Posted by
airsound
salad-dodger, Kris Kebab
Actually, I think there is a story. How often do you find one, and sometimes two, B52s in a roughly 13nm orbit, at 10,000ft-ish over rural Gloucestershire - for about 1 hour and 20 minutes? Don't you think it would be interesting to hear what they were doing - particularly perhaps for the people they were overflying?
As far as the 7700 squawk goes, BirdmanBerry, you're correct - they were only squawking that for not long before landing, according to flightradar24.
airsound
However this isn't the first time they've done this orbit. As I say a few weeks back they did the same, one then broke off to head to Fairford and the other circled a little longer and then went too, assuming to give the first one time to land.