A RAF anecdote you might find amusing? As well as the RAF, the German and Italian air forces also flew the Tornado and they were all at a NATO practice bombing range in Sicily. For reasons of interoperability they regularly swapped crews, so on one mission our narrator had a German navigator in the ...

A fantastic “blast from the past”. Thank you.

Fantastic YouTube documentary about h USAF and USN “ occupation” of Iceland with some lovely clips aircraft from the 50s and 60s and also the social impact on the Icelanders.
https://youtu.be/QC3oazu488Q?si=WGOVWruUMVeBqngO
Regards N.

Fantastic thread, thanks to all.

Makes us see why the A/C states in the event of an emergency you throw the Ravens out first so everyone else has a clear bailout…….

Superb, particularly 60136, thank you.

Fantastic, images and subject, thanks for sharing.

If your talking about Keesler afb Mississippi the I got some good views from a boat just off the end of the runway. Regards N.

I came back from Tucson at the en of October, I got a base pass for 2 weeks so I was privileged to drive about on base, I didn’t think they allowed overflights and there was a large signin the visitors centre that stated no tours round the boneyard. There is a public highway that bisects the boneyar...

It’s like a lotto, where the tyre stops, it’s number is a winner for the person who picked it.

Awful.

Especially clear images, thanks for posting.

thanks for the answers chaps.

Ok hopefully if I’ve done flicker correctly the 4 pictures are here…… https://www.flickr.com/photos/196683370@N05/?

Thanks for the answers, I have a picture but not sure of how to upload it, it is right beside a road that bisects the base,the xc99 seems likely.

I amin Tucson at the moment and got a 2 week pass today, as we were driving on DM I/we were sure we saw a large part of a B36 wing. Does anyone here know if it is part of a Peacemaker wing please?

Wonderful shot, now perhaps a Golden Auriole?

Roger, the “rev shed” as you call it is still there minus the twin exhausts.

Wonderful pictures! I think it’s the best picture of a Victor I have ever seen, thanks for posting.

They used the old Navy hangar when it first came to Mildenhall.
I was given a guidedtour of an SR and it was in the single Hangar facing West Row, near the SR “barns”