March

[BOLLO]

There have been 6 times when the Embassy flight for Fairford has gone to Ramstein first. On 5 of those occasions its called in on its way back home so if 00215 does show up It'll be on its 3rd visit to the base.

cheers,
Graham

[MRTT]

Previous visits by an Embassy flight have not been been cause for a tweet such as this. And quite how a single aircraft constitutes a 'busy week', I have no idea.

[Pune]

We'll have to wait and see then eh??

[ChrisCwmbran]

Previous visits by an Embassy flight have not been been cause for a tweet such as this. And quite how a single aircraft constitutes a 'busy week', I have no idea.

Perhaps it's going to do 10,000 missed approaches popping to Brize Norton to refuel once in a while?

[HarbingerXH558]

Local businesses have received notification of an upcoming exercise starting next week at Fairford. Deployment numbers in terms of personal will be higher than previous exercises.

[Stroudy]

I live in town. They normally post on the local town FB page at same time as alerting local businesses. Nothing yet though...

[Spitfire88]

I'm sure the USAF stated last year no prior notice would be given of exercise's anymore, I work for a local business and we have been told nothing but I'm also aware of the fact the exercise is taking place but that's only because of family who work on base. Although I should probably point out that the extra USAF personal in town is also a give away.

[sabrejet]

...and just as the glorious weather turns to shizzle. Typical.

[Scudpilot]

Previous visits by an Embassy flight have not been been cause for a tweet such as this. And quite how a single aircraft constitutes a 'busy week', I have no idea.

If there was no flight the previous week, there would be a 100% increase

[MRTT]

Fair comment.

Not turned out to be a very busy week, it seems..

[bizfreeq]

It'll have to be a busy day tomorrow instead if anything is going to happen this week!
Lots of sh*t floating around about this, until something actually happens I don't believe a word of it!

[Spitfire88]

The info I have is 500 personal and 6-8 buffs, but as stated the deployment is march, I have been told buffs arrivals just before next weekend.

[Ian1963]

A little bird as said between 6 and8 buffs at fairford.

[thevulcan]

If true could be one of the biggest deployments of a single bomber type these past 5 years.

[herc15]

If true could be one of the biggest deployments of a single bomber type these past 5 years.

remember nothing is certain until its wheels touch the tarmac...
all the same it would be great

[sabrejet]

Between six and eight BUFFs? Call me a doubting Thomas but I'd be amazed if there are three.

[ChrisCwmbran]

Isn't between 6 and 8 more commonly known as 7 anyway?

[Pune]

I have heard the same, 6-8 B52's and 500 personnel, only time will tell Mr D Thomas

[ChrisCwmbran]

Did the fact the same website tweeted a B-2 video as well imply B-2s in the deployment too?

[Pune]

Did the fact the same website tweeted a B-2 video as well imply B-2s in the deployment too?

You have NO IDEA of my sources..