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About 30 min ago, a B52 passed overhead Downham Market, inbound to Fairford maybe. Unusually, it was closely escorted by 2 F-35s.
treadigraph
22nd Mar 2022, 16:27
Was it a 3-Star in the Buff?
NutLoose
22nd Mar 2022, 16:44
photo shoot?
chevvron
22nd Mar 2022, 17:56
Yeah oldest (B52) and newest aircraft in the inventory.
BFSGrad
22nd Mar 2022, 19:01
Enjoy the shriek while you still can. Won't be long before a B-52 sounds like nothing more than a flock of angry Gulfstreams.
tartare
23rd Mar 2022, 00:17
Enjoy the shriek while you still can. Won't be long before a B-52 sounds like nothing more than a flock of angry Gulfstreams.
You made me larf - very good!
Enjoy the shriek while you still can. Won't be long before a B-52 sounds like nothing more than a flock of angry Gulfstreams. :D
And the 3-Star one, lol PPrune at its best
chopper2004
23rd Mar 2022, 07:53
About 30 min ago, a B52 passed overhead Downham Market, inbound to Fairford maybe. Unusually, it was closely escorted by 2 F-35s.
shhhh it was a Secret Seven Mission lol
Apparently it Twas an engine failure after playing ufo over the North Sea with fighters.
I missed it by 5 minutes as I arrived at the ‘Hall….the pair of F-35 landed back at the ‘Heath.
cheers
Timelord
23rd Mar 2022, 09:05
shhhh it was a Secret Seven Mission lol
Apparently it Twas an engine failure after playing ufo over the North Sea with
cheers
Oh no, the dreaded seven engine approach!
treadigraph
23rd Mar 2022, 09:11
Beat me to it Timelord! :)
bobward
24th Mar 2022, 08:33
To get back on thread, Fighter Control reports the combine did a flypast at RAF Lakenheath.
Here's the link, with due acknowledgement to Fighter Control.
Lakenheath 22 March 2022 - B-52H Flypast - FighterControl (https://www.fightercontrol.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=217584)
tdracer
24th Mar 2022, 18:23
Oh no, the dreaded seven engine approach!
Way back when (college days), I heard a story from one of the several USAF pilot types that were in the same Aero Engineering classes (the Air Force was paying them to get their Masters).
Two pilots that had gone through flight training together were flying as part of an exercise - one in an F-4, the other in a B-52. The F-4 pilot was bragging about how great his aircraft was, and it could do anything a B-52 could do only better. The B-52 pilot said "OK, let's see you do this". The F-4 pilot was confused and asked what the Buff pilot had just done? The response was "I just shut down two engines". :D