Originally Posted by
pax britanica
On USAF navigation some few years back a B52 due to display at Farnborough ended up doing its flyby at Blackbushe( a few miles tot he north west and on the other side of the M4 motorway the main visual clue for the area) no doubt to the shock of the airfield users. I believe there were some mitigating circumstances but it certainly didnt look very clever at the time
The pilot saw the correct airfield, it was just that all 8 engines on full power increased his radius of turn so it looked to the spectators as though he was going for Blackbushe by mistake. I was standing behind the radar controller at the time and heard him continually updating the pilot to try to correct him.
A few days later when I vectored it, I made sure the same thing didn't happen again!