Where's the Oil Spill Response 727,previously at Doncaster Robin Hood/Finningley,when it could be needed?

Anyone seen any working on the remaining bombers today,as if leaving for CONUS tomorrow?Usually there's a day or so between pairs departing but occasionally it's been the next day.

Anybody know how a deployment can take place when Fairford has a current Notam running until early Jan 2025 about critical and reduced firefighting and rescue capabilities for all the aircraft which could be involved?

That's the one-looked a lot more precarious from the side!There were other shots with heads out the windows.

For completeness sake and as a future deployment end guide, on Mon 17 Jun there was a mass photoshoot,in two sessions,for what was possibly all personnel on this deployment.They were standing on the wings,and several with heads sticking out of the cockpit,of jet 0018,the nearest to the Marston Meyse...

See the Ted Coningsby channel on YouTube for today's arrival.

Sounds like overhead south of Peterborough

Just heard B-1 like sound above the fog south of Peterborough

There's a Notam up for base closure tomorrow.Assume no B-1s flying?

Yes,2 on Tue 23May and 2 on Th 25May.See Aldunn's excellent daily posts,and also RAF Fairford Movements website.

Does anyone know whether tomorrow is a Press Day,as during the B-1's previous visit in Oct 2021 it was held on the Wed of the second week of operations,and no flying took place.I,and I'm sure many others,would be grateful for any information to save a fruitless long and difficult journey.Many thanks...

Lovely shots.Kept expecting to see Jennifer Connelly come out from behind the bushes even though these are only Hornets!

Parking management at the WAVE this year has been a shambles.In all the many years I've been going there,from before it was called the WAVE(eg ACMI exercises), I've had no problems.

The same management shower that a couple of years ago introduced a last post time of 9:30 in THE MORNING in my village!

Thanks for the enlightenment Supra.What I also liked about this jet was how,in other shots,the colour of the markings was echoed in the colour of the afterburner.

Any Range Rover Evoques in the Wave today,or maybe even Jaguar E-Paces,as the latter would seem to fit the current criterion for SUV entry of being made abroad(Austria)?

Excellent shots.Particular like the one where the pilot of the tiger jet throws his hands in the air(mock horror?)as if he knows what's happening beneath him.

Went to Waddington today for the first time this exercise.On entering The Wave in my Evoque,the smallest Range Rover,just after the gates were opened at 7:30 I was told that "Range Rovers and Freelanders are not allowed"(no mention of Discoveries or Defenders)although I noticed there were similar si...

BLACK01 landed at approx 20:12hrs and BLACK02 at 21:22hrs,both on R09

Nice but how much more appropriate it would have been for B17 "Sally B"and some P51 Mustangs to have been present.