Originally Posted by
airsound
. 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?
its just practice run for doing the same sort of display over Beijing, just a slightly longer transit to the hold.