Met these bad boys today

[Dalek]

Took Pistachio for a run this morning and look who we met!

 

[Keet]

Cracking pictures!

 

[ktnez99]

WOW! How did this happen? I want to go and see, too!

 

[andyglym]

Great pics

 

[mwpe]

Good pictures Paul, 2 very different eras. Amazing that the Americans still get use from the B52 but we have no bombers left.

 

[Dalek]

WOW! How did this happen? I want to go and see, too!

I was lucky to be invited to the 75th Anniversary Day at RAF Fairford which is close to where I live.
I see these fly low over our town on a fairly regular basis.

 

[andyglym]

Good pictures Paul, 2 very different eras. Amazing that the Americans still get use from the B52 but we have no bombers left.

Forecast to be 100 years old when it will be taken out of service. It'll be a bit of a 'Trigger's Broom' though.

 

[ktnez99]

I was lucky to be invited to the 75th Anniversary Day at RAF Fairford which is close to where I live.
I see these fly low over our town on a fairly regular basis.

What a cracker of an invitation! Great pics. Thanks for sharing.

 

[t-tony]

Forecast to be 100 years old when it will be taken out of service. It'll be a bit of a 'Trigger's Broom' though.

Still sweeping clean though, eh Andy?

Tony.

 

[DelGue]

Good pictures Paul, 2 very different eras. Amazing that the Americans still get use from the B52 but we have no bombers left.

In 1967, I was flying command and control ship in RVN, and was airborne with the 25th Inf battalion commander. We were on station several miles out to observe a carpet bombing by B52s. Absolutely frightening.

 

[Dalek]

In 1967, I was flying command and control ship in RVN, and was airborne with the 25th Inf battalion commander. We were on station several miles out to observe a carpet bombing by B52s. Absolutely frightening.

Wow! I bet that was impressive.

 

[DelGue]

Wow! I bet that was impressive.

It was pretty terrifying, to be honest. W could feel, I don't know what else to call it, the rumbling in your stomach, from the impact of hundreds of bombs (probably 500 pounders). It looked like a string of firecrackers going off. I can't imagine what it was like on the ground...

 

[t-tony]

A similar experience of sorts. We watched the 2nd last shuttle launch from Canaveral and the shock waves only hit us at 15 miles or so away after 15 or so seconds when there was nothing to see.

Tony.

ps. I certainly do not envy you're experiences in Vietnam Tom.

 

[Paul Rice]

Great Pictures "That's how the US are taking over the NHS?"

 

[Shelly]

What great photos
How lucky were you
Something not too be missed

 

[pgunter]

Love to see the Buffs.. still going strong over that B2. Still amazing planes but I often wonder where that design came from .. the Germans were experimenting with flying wings in the Second World War.

 

[t-tony]

and Atomic weapons . . . .

Tony.

 

[mwpe]

Love to see the Buffs.. still going strong over that B2. Still amazing planes but I often wonder where that design came from .. the Germans were experimenting with flying wings in the Second World War.

Not only the Germans, Armstrong Whitworth AW52:

 

[pgunter]

@mwpe

Horton 229

 

[DelGue]

A similar experience of sorts. We watched the 2nd last shuttle launch from Canaveral and the shock waves only hit us at 15 miles or so away after 15 or so seconds when there was nothing to see.

Tony.

ps. I certainly do not envy you're experiences in Vietnam Tom.

I would have loved to attended a Space Shuttle launch. My late brother lived in Florida, and saw several.