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B-52 Deployment info
B-52 Deployment info
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To try and keep the info all in the same place, i've created a shiny new section for you.
Tracking logs
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Photographs
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Posh are going to Wembley (albeit for a tin cup)
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This is deployment becoming a dream come true with 5 different B-52s at Fairford today.
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Are the B-52`s here at FFD for any length of time please? thanks...
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I have a very narrow window of opportunity to catch the B-52s. I was planning to visit pre-dawn tomorrow (Saturday) morning. Are all 5 floodlit and parked at the Marston Meysey end?
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I can not say for tomorrow but when I went to work this morning they were in the usual place at the MM end and flood lit.
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These ones are here until the end of January but there will be bombers deployed at fairford pretty much permanently all year.Geoff wrote:Are the B-52`s here at FFD for any length of time please? thanks...
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Andy, all five are parked Marston Meysey end and should be easily seen from the crash gates at Marston and Rhymes.AndyH69 wrote:I have a very narrow window of opportunity to catch the B-52s. I was planning to visit pre-dawn tomorrow (Saturday) morning. Are all 5 floodlit and parked at the Marston Meysey end?
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Thanks Spitfire, much appreciated
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Has the LA one escaped?
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There is no evidence to confirm that this is a 2nd Bomb Wing a/c Dave. The belief is that its assigned to the 23BS Minot. Its fitted with the same engine covers as the other 4 a/c - these are marked "5TH ACFT MX SQ" so if the engine covers fly with the a/c on deployment/redeployment, as I suspect they do, its a clincher that it belongs to Minot. Minot incidentally, is Notam'd closed until Tues 16th. Of the 5 H's present, 61-0018 is the only one which has been modified to be non-nuclear. In addition to nose art on the port side, it carries mission symbols and a tiny K inside a triangle, indicating that it has been attached to the 379th Air Expeditionary Wing at Al Udeid.Dave Smith wrote:Has the LA one escaped?
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Just got home after a quick visit to Fairford this morning, all five are clearly visible from the Marston Meysey end but only two are fully photographable, these two being both the "0005s". The other three are partly or almost totally obscured by buildings or grass mounds.
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Much better view from the other side by Rymes although further away
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61-0018 was at FFD June 20015 fully marked up in MT tail code and did a mission as ICER 11 on the 17th.I have shots of him in the pattern and recovering after said mission.graham luxton wrote:There is no evidence to confirm that this is a 2nd Bomb Wing a/c Dave. The belief is that its assigned to the 23BS Minot. Its fitted with the same engine covers as the other 4 a/c - these are marked "5TH ACFT MX SQ" so if the engine covers fly with the a/c on deployment/redeployment, as I suspect they do, its a clincher that it belongs to Minot. Minot incidentally, is Notam'd closed until Tues 16th. Of the 5 H's present, 61-0018 is the only one which has been modified to be non-nuclear. In addition to nose art on the port side, it carries mission symbols and a tiny K inside a triangle, indicating that it has been attached to the 379th Air Expeditionary Wing at Al Udeid.Dave Smith wrote:Has the LA one escaped?
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What do cry when we see The Man With the Stick???
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Sorry Paul but that was 60-0018. I was also there on the 17th as well as many other days. Took hours of video footage including close up stuff of crews getting on/off the a/c including 018 - no doubt it was a 1960- airframe.BOLLO wrote:61-0018 was at FFD June 20015 fully marked up in MT tail code and did a mission as ICER 11 on the 17th.I have shots of him in the pattern and recovering after said mission.graham luxton wrote:There is no evidence to confirm that this is a 2nd Bomb Wing a/c Dave. The belief is that its assigned to the 23BS Minot. Its fitted with the same engine covers as the other 4 a/c - these are marked "5TH ACFT MX SQ" so if the engine covers fly with the a/c on deployment/redeployment, as I suspect they do, its a clincher that it belongs to Minot. Minot incidentally, is Notam'd closed until Tues 16th. Of the 5 H's present, 61-0018 is the only one which has been modified to be non-nuclear. In addition to nose art on the port side, it carries mission symbols and a tiny K inside a triangle, indicating that it has been attached to the 379th Air Expeditionary Wing at Al Udeid.Dave Smith wrote:Has the LA one escaped?
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Cheers .
http://www.airfighters.com/photosearch.php?phgid=SHED" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; LOADES
http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.s ... _entry=140+" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; at last
What do cry when we see The Man With the Stick???
http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.s ... _entry=140+" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; at last
What do cry when we see The Man With the Stick???
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I forgot it's a holiday date, could anyone say weather they fly on holiday dates
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Can’t say for definite, but seen quite a few posts on Facebook saying no flying today
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No NOTAM for today as at 8:55
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