This would have been Dog 01 flight

F-35's Dog 01/02 were 20-5573 and 20-5571

F-15's Dog 03/04 were 91-0311 and 96-0204

Uzi was heard on the 25th February - possibly a 493rd callsign

The Reds arrived and departed Mildenhall today at the times stated above.

They performed a nice formation loop and vertical break on arrival

I know the 493rd FS had a toy monkey that would ride along with them back in the F-15C days. He was called Spank and the pilot flying with him used Spank as the callsign for the day. Apparently you had to fly with Spank if you had made a mistake like over G’ing a jet etc…

The Embraer KC-390 flying demo is Friday only this year I believe - so that’s a bonus if only going Friday

Reach 317 C-17 (95-0107) arrived early this morning from Seymour Johnson

01-2004 returned yesterday 29/9/23 as Maul 11

AlexanderClover wrote: ↑

Fri Jun 16, 2023 8:41 am

They will be flying more, likely the sorties will go all the way through the night. I think the last time they did this they didn’t land until 3-4am.

Yes, I remember when they did it a few years ago they had about 12 F-15's launch at 2am!!

492nd and 495th were flying morning sorties from 0800 onwards. 492nd were hot pitting I think. After lunch, 492nd, 494th and 495th were going up. 494th flying until around 1930

I was in the viewing area yesterday morning and spoke to a couple of guys from the 555th fighter squadron visiting from Aviano. They were selling patches, coins etc.
Just make sure you have cash with you.

The Austrian QRA demo stood out from everything else for me.
Best display team was easily The Black Eagles.

We can expect the static B-52 to be one of the first arrivals I'd have thought.

Netherlands Air Force 27 C-130H G781 appears to be inbound

Nice updates! Interesting additions to the list...Seen that Columbia has Super Tucanos in their AF, so they could be good! They also have IAI Kfirs so they'd be good to see too :thumb: Before Covid, there was talk of Colombia wanting to send one of their KC-767 Jupiters if I remember correctly. Wou...

Taxiing now

pg1610 wrote: ↑

Thu May 20, 2021 10:11 pm

Anybody have an onsite as to when these two KC46s are due to deploy back home,I have a chance to get down to see then Saturday but could do with knowing they will be on the grd still about mid morning
Thanks for any help
Phil

I believe they are here until May 28th

Does anyone know or think that the 492nd will be out East until November to do a full 6 months, or could they come home earlier?

They have been flying evening sorties for a while. They normally launch just after sunset, so from 1600 local onwards.

Several F-15E's were up this morning aswell as at least 12 this afternoon.

F-35B (ZM146) arrived at Lakenheath around noon for the media event I guess.