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B1B 86-O105 calling RAMA 32 arrived at Mildenhall this morning and is parked in front of the tower.

They only seem to divert in when no-one's monitoring HF. Quick, everyone stop monitoring HF!

I watched this fly over my house this morning at 0645 making it's final left hand turn to line up with 29. It was the noise that woke me!!..it's the first B1 i've seen in my neck of the woods. Is it here for the RIAT display??

There's no B-1 due for RIAT, so I assume it's a divert due to no available tankers or tankers going tech.

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Its tanker had problems so it had to pop into the hall, what a shame

Hopefully it will go out on 29 as it will come straight over my house

viper3111 wrote:Its tanker had problems so it had to pop into the hall, what a shame

Hopefully it will go out on 29 as it will come straight over my house

I think the AR was successful but it must have developed problems afterward.It landed here a full 3-4 hrs after the Quids rtb'd so it could well be something else.

Reach90016 wrote:

BOLLO wrote:

viper3111 wrote:Its tanker had problems so it had to pop into the hall, what a shame

Hopefully it will go out on 29 as it will come straight over my house

I think the AR was successful but it must have developed problems afterward.It landed here a full 3-4 hrs after the Quids rtb'd so it could well be something else.

I think wot Viper means is, the next Tanker in the Med,( Fueler ) had probs, so an advanced warning and one decided to come to the Hall.. PS. Viper..Like your Avtar.. " Lemmy hear Motorhead"

Yeah what he said

No matter what, we have a B-1B on the ground at the hall

Its by the tower

Rama 32 calling for engine start calling engine start at 11.42.

Departure I assume Paul?
Stig.

I hope so,just getting his clearance now so should not be too long.You know the pantomime with one of these when they go

Ive just got home, are they still on 29?

Just off the deck at 12.15 and he was low.

I just saw him, it must still be quite hours as he turned of earlier

They must stay clear of Ely on a Sunday I think.

Normaly its until about 1400ish dependant on type on a sunday I think, and if they can get a quite hours waver

viper3111 wrote:Normaly its until about 1400ish dependant on type on a sunday I think, and if they can get a quite hours waver

Quite hours are 6pm/9am at weekends so might not need a waiver between those hours.Thought he might have needed on Saturday morning to get in tho.

I knew it was 0900-1800 saturday-sunday or somthing like that, just sometimes they are allowed to just go straight in . But going out they usualy turn off before they get to ely
Shame realy

Didnt turn early Shaun - my Dad saw him loud and FAST over our house (although quite high).

Me and Phill had left for DX about 10 minutes earlier.

When I say turned of early I meant it turned before it got to my house they usualy go straight over, I could see it whent straight over your way. But as I live nearer the centre of ely it avoided my house.

I must learn to wright what I mean