Fairford open 22/08/20

[nick197]

Fairford open 05:00 to 19:30 local
U3834/20 NOTAMN
Q) EGTT/QAZCA/IV/NBO/AE/000/033/5141N00147W005
A) EGVA B) 2008220400 C) 2008221830
E) FAIRFORD MIL ATZ ACTIVE, AD, RWY 27/09 OPEN.

[tomw]

Tour 51 x2, Tour 53 x2 and Tour 55 x2 heading through Daventry corridor for Fairford by the sounds of it

[plumberbeno]

4no B52s just gone over Lincoln heading towards Fairford ..

Regards David

[Saltheart]

B52 x 2 heading down the Daventry corridor at 06.10 followed by a second pair at 06.15. Not a bad wake up call!

[Saltheart]

Followed by a third pair at 06.19. Great sight.

[sebcoe]

6 visual OTT Northamptonshire, 3 pairs.

[Spitfire88]

First pair Landed at Fairford

[StuBie]

That was quite a wake up call going over just now :-)

[rogersmith44]

2 over Witney 06:42

[StuBie]

Luckily TORE54 showed up on ADS-B so plenty of notice this time

[Raptor22]

Crap I was a sleep wellingborough heard real loud aircraft engines thought to myself that's meaty looked on freedar nothing just got up had tea looked on it again to see 10032 appear b52s in uk

[StuBie]

Crap I was a sleep wellingborough heard real loud aircraft engines thought to myself that's meaty looked on freedar nothing just got up had tea looked on it again to see 10032 appear b52s in uk

To be fair TORE54 was the only one that showed up for me on ADS-B exchange and that was once it had already entered the circuit. I was in bed too but that distinct sound went over and I went straight to the window, luckily I had clothes on!

Stu

[Raptor22]

Stubie clothes or no clothes catching a b52 is worth it even if you flash the neighbor's

[f14stumpy]

It would seem they caught everyone by surprise this morning. A very nice surprise at that.

[richpittman]

No tanker support noted and no Prior build up of ground crew/ equipment?

[Cranberry]

You mean 6 large aircraft made it halfway across the world without a rumour, heads up, or radio log on FC?

[zero_gravity]

Inbound sqwk codes were 2744 and 3744.
These could he used in future to track via PP's VPRN as once here the B52s very often fly sorties Mode A/C only.
2744 was the transit code , 3744 a standard Brize SSR

[Razzor01]

Nice surprise indeed.

Anyone down there with a live update, serials, units, have they shut down, are they staying, gas and go, support to arrive later?????????????????

Any help greatly appreciated.

s

[StuBie]

Judging by the NOTAM at the top of the thread unless there is a U2 sortie today the airfield will be open for movements until this evening.

[paulk]

B-52Hs

60-0005/MT '5 BW'
60-0007/MT
60-0029/MT
60-0044/MT
60-0056/MT
61-0034/MT

All 23 BS

U-2S 68-10337 was also outside