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Ok I saw a list on Scramble saying the were alot of visiting aircraft from Alaska Hawaii and Ausralia in Nellis AFB but on checking they seem to be only flying night mission first week and thought they may fly during the day on the secound week if they stayed as there was no info on how long the exercise would last and did not even know what it was call and.... As it was in Las Vegas I would gamble and go and see what i could shootI arrived at Nellis 30th I made for the Quarry the road up to the viewing point is open again from North Hollywood Blvd the wind was favouring the Cheyenne end of the runways It got to 12 noon and no movement from the exercise aircraft just based flying and C-17s and C-130 in and out so went down to Cheyenne and was surprise to find the bums had moved back in mass and lots of spurious character were walking about with dumps cars and van a people living out of old RV as I seem to be the only photographer and not a spotter anywehere to be seen i limited my time there...... Anyway on with what I shot over the two days

Aussie EF-18G 6Sqn and F-35A 75Sqn and 77Sqn by Bob Fernandes, on Flickr

SW F-16C 20FW 79FS by Bob Fernandes, on Flickr

HL F-34A 388FW 34FS 421FS and 466FS by Bob Fernandes, on Flickr

AK F-22A 3Wg 90FS by Bob Fernandes, on Flickr

AK F-35A 354FW 355FS 356FS by Bob Fernandes, on Flickr

2 AK F-35A 354FW 356FS with HH F-22A 154Wg 199FS HI ANG by Bob Fernandes, on Flickr

LF F-35A 56FW 63FS by Bob Fernandes, on Flickr

TX F-16C 301FW 457FS by Bob Fernandes, on Flickr

A39-004 KC-30A RAAF 33Sqn Unknowm USMC MV-22B by Bob Fernandes, on Flickr

22-5686 F-35A HL 388FW by Bob Fernandes, on Flickr

19-5948 HC-130J MY 23Wg 71RQS by Bob Fernandes, on Flickr

(168272)503 EF-18G USN NAWDC by Bob Fernandes, on Flickr

93-0600 C-17A USAF 164AW 155AS TN ANG by Bob Fernandes, on Flickr

89-2092 F-16C WA 57Wg 16WPS by Bob Fernandes, on Flickr

17-5246 F-35A WA 57Wg 6WPS by Bob Fernandes, on Flickr

N90 CL605 FAA by Bob Fernandes, on Flickr

90-0260 F-15E WA USAF 57Wg 17WPS with 90-0744 F-16C WA USAF 57Wg 16WPS by Bob Fernandes, on Flickr

86-0219 F-16C TX USAF 301FW 457FS with 88-0174 F-16D WA USAF 57Wg 16WPS by Bob Fernandes, on Flickr

A30-004 E-7A RAAF 2Sqn by Bob Fernandes, on Flickr

A30-001, A30-003, A30-004 RAAF E-7A by Bob Fernandes, on Flickr

168290 YR10 MV-22B USMC VMM-161 by Bob Fernandes, on Flickr

76-1605 E-3B USAF OK 552ACW 960AACS by Bob Fernandes, on Flickr

05-5144 C-17A with lots of stuff in the back ground by Bob Fernandes, on Flickr

05-5144 C-17A USAF AFRC 452AMW 729AS by Bob Fernandes, on Flickr

13-5784,08-5705 C-130J USAF 19AW 41AS by Bob Fernandes, on Flickr

90-0252 F-15E ET USAF 96TW 40FLTS by Bob Fernandes, on Flickr

20-0002 F-15EX OT USAF 53Wg 85TES by Bob Fernandes, on Flickr

A35-054 F-35A RAAF 77Sqn by Bob Fernandes, on Flickr

A35-060 F-35A RAAF 75Sqn by Bob Fernandes, on Flickr

Wow, some serious hardware there, thanks for sharing

Thanks for sharing these, extremely helpful as I've been trying to track down the serials of those visiting jets for a good few weeks now!

Quality numbers

I could have done with seeing those AK - so much easier than going to Alaska!

I really must pay more attention to scramble as overseas coverage on FC is unfortunately quite sparse to put it mildly.

Thanks for sharing these, an impressive selection of shots, plenty of variety too.

Excellent set of shots from the best base in the world.

Top quality post. As said before, some serious hardware is to be seen. Excellent.

The Spad 16s are presumably now 706thAGRS, a further two arrived today I believe.

A serious amount of expensive hardware there

Thanks for posting

You can get a jet blue flight there from Gatwick for £683 departing this Tuesday returning Saturday - so tempting

But it is a big gamble as they have been there since 20/10 according to scramble so this is the end of the 2nd week

Edit : Looking at the coronets section it looks like the AK went back north on Friday

I would say the exercises over the RAAF E-7 have dept two to Hawaii and one to Tyndall and at least 6 of the AK F-35 have gone home from a post from Sir Listen alot on X so not sure what is left

Depressed

Any F-15EX present?

Suspect this may have been a Black Flag, the US and RAAF did one last year.

There were 2 ET F-15E and the OT F-15EX which were not part of the exercise and flew each day with a based F-15E

Boxhill Bob wrote: ↑

Sat Nov 04, 2023 8:13 am

I would say the exercises over the RAAF E-7 have dept two to Hawaii and one to Tyndall and at least 6 of the AK F-35
have gone home from a post from Sir Listen alot on X so not sure what is left

The AK F-35s returned to Eielson AFB as CUBE 11-16 and CUBE 21-26, November 2nd.
The HH F-22s returned to Honolulu as DIRCA 81-86, November 1st.

René.
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Fighterfoto wrote: ↑

Fri Nov 03, 2023 11:38 pm

The Spad 16s are presumably now 706thAGRS, a further two arrived today I believe.

Personally I think the TX F-16's were actually here for a Green Flag that was been hosted at the same time. Although the might end up staying here ofcourse.

Regards.

Nice set and always good to see some interesting ground shots (even with the heat haze)!

20-0002/OT is an F-15EX Mike.

slogen51 wrote: ↑

Sat Nov 04, 2023 8:55 am

Depressed

Any F-15EX present?

Oh yes I missed that

What a beast

Very nice set like the TX F-16 86-0219 used to be 527th AS at RAF Bentwaters