Buffs @ Brize

Post by **rogersmith44** » Sat Dec 14, 2013 7:48 am

Thanks again for all your kind comments I seem to have struck a popular subject.I have been having a ferret in my photo albums & managed to find some more from 1981 so I will post them up as soon as I can find the negs.Watch this space!
Thanks again.
Roger

Post by **TeeJay** » Sat Dec 14, 2013 8:07 am

Hi Roger
Simply brilliant. Thanks for sharing, always interested in older shots like these

All the best
Trev

Post by **sherriff** » Mon Dec 16, 2013 7:59 pm

Thanks for the nostalgic memories. Was at Brize 80-83 and saw them all. What an era !

Post by **tim_raper** » Fri Dec 20, 2013 12:36 am

nice, who back then would have thought the species would still be flying 34 years later

Post by **rogersmith44** » Fri Dec 20, 2013 8:06 am

Hi jem60,I was about in the B47 days,they used to wake me up at night when they flew over my house at all hours of the day & night. I didn't get into aircraft until I was in my early 30s & the B52s were among the first aircraft I photographed at Brize(what a start!!)no wonder I was hooked!
All the best & a happy Christmas to you all.

Regards
Roger

neil t · Post by **neil t** » Tue Jan 07, 2014 6:34 pm

What a great selection, it's a pity i missed these great smokey, noisey beasts, but seeing these shots i can almost be there

Post by **wezgulf3** » Sat Jan 11, 2014 7:37 pm

I Had the pleasure of chatting to an Old VC-10 pilot back in the summer on the fence at Brize and he went into great detail about flying with the B-52 crews, one thing he said that made me laugh was the american crews saying that because how quick the VC-10's got up that being up front in a B-52 he would be seeing parts of Oxfordshire he had never seen before! Unfortunately these great Pictures are from the year i was Born so i had no chance of seeing them there myself so many many thanks for sharing a Golden age of Brize's History with us!

Wes...

Post by **Steven** » Sat Jan 11, 2014 7:59 pm

Lovely. Particularly love the amount of smoke in the photo with both of them airborne. Also: Spot the airborne VC-10 in one of the pictures!

Steven.

Post by **TS010** » Sun Jan 12, 2014 11:38 am

A question if anyone can help? I remember going on a family trip to Bourton-on-the-water, which would have been around 1980 and my dad calling me out of a shop to see a B-52 fly over with it's gear down, would their approach to Brize taken them this way? Later the same day we parked up for a picnic and a KC-135 came over, it was at the weekend by the way.

Post by **Skywatcher** » Sun Jan 12, 2014 12:26 pm

Hi
Amazing pics of one of my all time favorate bombers the mighty 52

(been lucky enough to go on a cockpit tour of a 52H version at ffd once as well ,icing on the cake that was

)
I must say I really like the one with the vc--10 in the same shot

great timing on that one

Thanks for sharing these ,and I can only agree with what everyone else is saying about them

They are stunning

Thanks again
All the very best as aways

Max

graham luxton · Post by **graham luxton** » Sun Jan 12, 2014 1:13 pm

TS010 wrote:A question if anyone can help? I remember going on a family trip to Bourton-on-the-water, which would have been around 1980 and my dad calling me out of a shop to see a B-52 fly over with it's gear down, would their approach to Brize taken them this way? Later the same day we parked up for a picnic and a KC-135 came over, it was at the weekend by the way.

It may have TS010. However, it could also have been inbound to Fairford - sometimes they used to appear from that direction as well.

cheers,
Graham

Post by **TS010** » Sun Jan 12, 2014 6:06 pm

Cheers Graham, Fairford was my initial thought but after seeing these photos and Brize being not too far away I thought maybe it was heading there.

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