Wasn’t one of the reasons for Mildenhall to close that it needed lots of investments to be updated to modern standards? As construction works have been going on at Ramstein for getting the tankers there, I can still see that happen. As for Trump... who knows what will happen if he is not elected aga...

Where did you take that last shot?

If any stragglers are still there by that time, it is doubtful if they will be visible (don’t know the port of La Rochelle). But the US Army put walls of containers around the docks they were using in Bremerhaven, Zeebrugge and Rotterdam. So don’t put your hopes too high unfortunately.

Probably less then that, it seems part of the helo’s will be unloaded in La Rochelle, and another part of them will be delivered to Volos, Greece.

During the airshow at Kuopio in 2016 we saw an Opel (Vauxhall for you) Omega, painted in old camouflage and adorned with big blue Swastika, the old Finnish air force symbols. It did not attract much attention by the many people walking by. Apparently they know their history and symbols, and did not ...

The USAF is investing in Molesworth, Fairford, Lakenheath, Croughton, Spangdahlem and Ramstein. But still no investments or announcements made for Mildenhall (I know it was slated to close). Isn’t that a sign that closing is still not off the table?

It is just nice words. He is not the one deciding what happens to the future of Mildenhall. I would not expect too much of investment or future announcements in the current situation. With the covid 19 financial effects to the USA, I expect that somewhere money will have to be saved in the future. A...

Is it based at the airport, or do they have their base somewhere else?

On the other hand, if the F-16’s from Spangdahlem move to Poland, it makes plenty of space available for moving the 352nd to Spangdahlem. Since Mildenhall is a very outdated airbase, and Spangdahlem already seen a lot of modernising going on, that might be an option.

It all depends on what happens in Trumps mind. Today he wants to pull out 9.500 troops out of Germany. Maybe next week he wants to add 20.000? With that guy you can never know. And if he is still in power after november, no one knows. So don’t jump to any conclusions yet.

And not to forget about the recent Su-35 order

IIRC the Egyptian military shopping spree is partially financially supported by Saudi Arabia. Whether they will still do that during the current crisis (oil revenues have dropped) remains to be seen

What an arrogant idiot. Hope he gets a very nice bill for his actions. Could they take his flying license for what he did?

Wasn’t Blue Flag held every 2 years? 2013/15/17/19 so far. Or did they change it to an annual exercise?

Today one of the Snowbirds crashed on take off from Kamloops Airport. 2 pilots ejected at low altitude, their status unknown at the moment. The plane crashed in a residential area

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“Lets not start shaming people, let’s just be sensible and stay safe. If the latter for you means staying at home, then fair enough, but we shouldn’t try to force our own decisions onto others.”

I could not have said it any better than this

Saw them from the Netherlands, for a few seconds. After that they disappeared behind the clouds. A quite interesting sight

The German secretary of Defence has confirmed to the USA Germany is going ahead with the buy of 45 Super Hornets, of which 15 will be Growlers. News article in German, but Google translate will do the trick: https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/bundeswehr-annegret-kramp-karrenbauer-sagt-washin...

For just a reminder see the link below:- https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-outbreak-faqs-what-you-can-and-cant-do/coronavirus-outbreak-faqs-what-you-can-and-cant-do Thanks for that "The government is not saying only people doing “essential” work can go to work. Anyone who canno...

And... if they were really interesting aircraft, which you might be able to see only “once in a lifetime” I could understand.... but they were BA747’s. Go to Heathrow on a normal day and you couldn’t even bother