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A few from Brize in 1980,i hope these are of some interest to you,apologies for the quality.


B52D Brize 1980 by Roger ks45, on Flickr


B52D Brize 1980 by Roger ks45, on Flickr


B52D Brize 1980 by Roger ks45, on Flickr


B52D Brize 1980 by Roger ks45, on Flickr


B52D Brize 1980 by Roger ks45, on Flickr


B52D Brize 1980 by Roger ks45, on Flickr


B52D Brize1980 by Roger ks45, on Flickr


B52D Brize 1980 by Roger ks45, on Flickr


B52D Brize 1980 by Roger ks45, on Flickr


B52D Brize 1980 by Roger ks45, on Flickr


B52D Brize 1980 by Roger ks45, on Flickr


B52D Brize 1980 by Roger ks45, on Flickr


B52D Brize 1980 by Roger ks45, on Flickr


B52D (Mig kill) Brize 1980 by Roger ks45, on Flickr

Great photos

Stunning shots.

Lovely images, never tire of seeing all the things I missed out on!

Fantastic selection of what I should think are some incredibly rare images!

Oh my god
Fantastic
I need to lie down now

Cheers
Martyn

Great set, loving all these golden oldies that everyone's posting at the mo

Yes, some great reminders of how good it used to be.
I was there on those days as well - taking movies rather than stills. When compared to the `G` and `H` models a B-52D departure was definitely the most impressive because of the distinctive sound they made on take off - can best describe it as a roaring, howling screech.

Brize hosted 5 of these `Maritime` B-52D deployments in 1980/81 involving the 7, 22 and 96BW's. Each Wing deployed 3 a/c for periods which varied from 5 to 22 days.

Hi Roger

OMG, 'Bigfin' pics

IMHO, the best Buff pics I have seen on FC

Cheers

A drooling Paddyboy

Nice set . It looks like the VC-10 is waiting for the smoke to clear before lining up in the fifth photo.
Mike

Thank you for all your kind comments they have encouraged me to delve into my archive & dig out a few more.A story I was told at the time was that the red star just beneath the serial on the nose signifies that aircraft was credited with downing a Mig in the Vietnam conflict (you can see it on the last three photos),does anybody know if the story is true?
MIke did you also notice in photo 6 top left corner is a VC10 with a bird's-eye view?
Thanks again
Roger

Fantastic set of photo's ! I was lucky enough to have been there in air traffic but sadly remember very little of the flying. I do remember swapping bits of uniform with the Americans, there were loads of them. We even had females in our block, very unusual at the time !!

Managed to get a couple of shots with my trusty Kodak 110...remember them? Here's one of them.....not great



Some years later I was involved with B52G's at St Mawgan on Harpoon trials.....had a better camera by then

Seen this set of shots before,still a great set of shots to see.

They are amazing aircraft, cheers for posting them, very, very nice, that was a lovely colour scheme

Brilliant set. Managed to catch some tall fin D's ? in that same scheme over at Marham for 'Giant Strike' - think it was Spring 1976
Thanks for posting

MikeB wrote:Lovely images, never tire of seeing all the things I missed out on!

I second that, well done!

awesome shots , never seen anything other than a G or H model fly unfortunately!

rogersmith44 wrote:Thank you for all your kind comments they have encouraged me to delve into my archive & dig out a few more.A story I was told at the time was that the red star just beneath the serial on the nose signifies that aircraft was credited with downing a Mig in the Vietnam conflict (you can see it on the last three photos),does anybody know if the story is true?
MIke did you also notice in photo 6 top left corner is a VC10 with a bird's-eye view?
Thanks again
Roger

Yes Roger it is true - 2 B-52D's downed Migs in that conflict.

cheers,
Graham

Fantastic shots!
But it's a little painful for me to see these amazing D-models as I never saw them close in real life. I remember seeing four flying in formation over Holland more than 30 years ago, their enormous black tails clearly recognisable. When I was at Greenham Common in 1981I met my first B-52, but it was an H-model that was temp based at Marham. Years later I read that there were Ds at Brize at the same time. That still hurts.
Thanks for posting! Rob

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