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Notam's up for todays BUFFs.

U3023/12 - AD AND RWY 09/27 OPEN. AVBL FOR SCHEDULED MOVEMENTS ONLY. 13 SEP 11:00 2012 UNTIL 13 SEP 13:00 2012. CREATED: 13 SEP 10:04 2012

Just seen in binos heading north of the Lambourn Downs at 1318hrs at quite high level (passed to my west so over Swindon). However a second one at low level heading north at 1320hrs has just passed over so there are either two inbound Fairford or first was mis-ident.

B-52H 60-0024/LA 2 BW,20 BS, c/s Raider23 Noseart...''2nd Operations Support Squadron, POSSE''
B-52H 60-0058/LA 2 BW,20 BS, c/s Raider22 Noseart....'War Hog''

Before these landed Scalp99 flew over at FL230.

HTH
Paul

Are we expecting movements this weekend?

nick197 wrote:Are we expecting movements this weekend?

Looks as if they're in for airshows, so yup, I'd say so!

Marvellous, Thanks for the reply Mike

Ones going to Jersey Airshow then up to Leuchars for a fly-by there too (where I'm working at the mo)

I've heard there's a b52 in leucars if so does anybody know the serial?

nathturner11 wrote:I've heard there's a b52 in leucars if so does anybody know the serial?

Scalp 99 61-0031 BD, nose art "Judgement Day".

Thanks,will 031 come back through ffd?

Hi guys does anybody know which days the b52s are going to fly and will they leave in morning and return again in afternoon as I would love to get a shot of them returning I have a long drive so any info would be very much appreciated yours raptor22

As the leuchars air show is on Saturday and the 52 is flying up there via jersey then I'd say it's departing sometime Saturday morning

I've just been for these and both were sat outside at 16:00.

Hope it's of use if anyone is undecided as to whether to go or not. I made one of them too

Hi phil thank you for your help mate I shall try and get down to ff around 10am so I hope to catch it I may hang around in the hope of getting a shot of her returning a cross the road thanks again for your help

Why do people think a B52 is going to Jersey/Gurnsey this Saturday? The Airshow in the channel Isles was on (last) Thursday.

AIUI, the B52 is doing flypasts at Sanicole, Berlin and Leuchars tomorrow.

I'm also not convinced either of the two in Fairford will be going to Ostrava next weekend. The Ostrava pair are supposed to be AFRC (Air Force Reserve) machines - 507BW - BD Tail codes. The Fairford pair are regular SAC (or whatever it's called this week) machines - 2BW - LA tailcodes.Yes both units are based at Barksdale, but they're different units. Personally, I the Leuchars one, plus 60-0035/BD will be the Ostrava pair.

Cheers
Malcolm

What's "AIUI" mean Malcolm - is it "as I understand it" maybe ?

Anybody got any guesses as to when the Buff could take off?, Just wandering if i've got time to clean my car . I assume theres no NOTAMs up yet?.

nick197 wrote:Anybody got any guesses as to when the Buff could take off?, Just wandering if i've got time to clean my car . I assume theres no NOTAMs up yet?.

Nope, nothing yet! Just trying to find out when it's due over Leuchars, that's probably our best bet!

Yes, I just had a look at the Berlin ILA site and although the B52 is listed as displaying on the aircraft list it's not down on any of the weeks time tables.
The flying display starts at 10:30 and finishes at 17:19 today for Berlin, I suppose we have to take an hour off those times or are Berlin on the same time?

Yup, Berlin are one hour ahead of us. I've heard 16:00 Berlin local for the flypast there, so we'll see!

I just hope it gets back in before 16:30 because of the sun position... (after 17:30 would do aswell!)