June and July activity

[rh226]

What Paul appears to be saying is that he would not go along with the idea of B-2s appearing over the Bank Holiday weekend.

My own thought is that the positioning of the relevant sentence/paragraph - following all the remarks about the exercise - seems to be just a bit of information about other airfield operations with a quiet hours waiver. It therefore suggests to me that the Bank Holiday activity has nothing to do with the exercise. That is, of course, assuming that the base PR boys are not pulling a fast one, and phrasing things in a deliberately misleading way.

[09andrew]

£10 on 5 B1's !!!

[stealth1234]

£10 on 5 B1's !!!

You will be owing a lot of members £10

[09andrew]

With William Hill of course!!

[GhostFlight91]

Wait and see.. simple

[stealth1234]

Wait and see.. simple

Simple indeed but nothing wrong with speculation

[StormsInAfrica]

Feel free to close the thread down with your indisputable inside knowledge by all means!

Unsubscribe if the constant "ding" of an email is an issue for you? The majority quite enjoy speculation. Indeed, you might find that over the last three years we have more or less distilled the facts in this way.

It's a cold day when someone posts "2x B2's in at 1500GMT" (although there is a time and place for that!). Enjoy the banter; it's what we are here for.

[city42]

Is there any news yet on arrival dates
thanks

[richpittman]

I only have times for the 6 F117 that are due through the loop

[Blackcat1]

Lol ;-)

[backtrack26]

Kalitta sending over a B744 from Minot AB to Fairford, CKS405 N402KZ, wednesday morning arrival,

see: viewtopic.php?f=342&t=131693

[MRTT]

Kalitta sending over a B744 from Minot AB to Fairford, CKS405 N402KZ, wednesday morning arrival,

see: viewtopic.php?f=342&t=131693

Would suggest B-52s then!

[DC7C59]

Kalitta sending over a B744 from Minot AB to Fairford, CKS405 N402KZ, wednesday morning arrival,

see: viewtopic.php?f=342&t=131693

Thanks for that backtrack26-first useful post for a while on this thread.B52s must be only approx 4(?) days away?Anyone recall when the first civil cargo plane came in last year?

[StormsInAfrica]

First one rocked up on 02/06 with the BUFFs touching down on 05/06. Spirits 3 days later on the 8th. Bit of an early start this year.

By that logic, BUFFs on the 28th, and whatever else over the weekend? Official start date for the EX is the 27th. We'll know if it fits this pattern if something else "transporty" turns up tomorrow.

[exatco]

CKS405 west of outer Hebrides. ETA 1005 local time.

[DC7C59]

The civvie on 2/6/15 was a 737,presumably passengers(ground crew for B52s?).Was there no 747cargo plane(Atlas/Kallitta?)earlier?

[StormsInAfrica]

Not that i'm aware of if memory serves. I've checked the logs from last year and it's not captured.

[backtrack26]

looking through the movements of 2014, on 02/06/14 it seemed there was an Atlas B747.

In june last year, cargo support came in the shape of C5's on the 2nd & 3rd of june. No big difference to uplift support equipment on a civil freighter instead of a military airlifter?
The equipment is probably not that kind of outsize dimensions, it won't fit in B747 (initially conceived as a military lifter on the drawing boards after all...).
Decision of the Air Force to subcharter a civil operator this time?

[DC7C59]

With this being a military forum many think that civil movements shouldn't/needn't be mentioned.The Kalitta cargo 747 for the recent F22s deployment to Lakenheath was not mentioned anywhere;I only know it was involved because I saw it(I'm as guilty as others in not mentioning it but I can't post when I'm out and it was at the end of the deployment so thought it might not be interesting).So perhaps it's possible that a large cargo aircraft was involved last year?Today's 747 possibly only brought in equipment,as personnel usually travel in passenger aircraft,such as the Omni Air 767 used at Lakenheath recently.

[tim_raper]

the key is that it's on a military charter, so yes it's interesting from a build up point of view