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We arrived in John's field on Monday morning and the weather was gorgeous. There weren't any visitors on the deck apart from an RC-135 that was being temporarily operations there. There were about 21 F-15s sitting on the deck. But as I found out only about 14 of those (2 Cs, 1 D and 11 Es) were on the active flightline. Soon enough they started going up and we got a launch of about 12 aircraft but the light was pretty much down the tail unfortunately.
1. Spotted by the pilot.. :rock:
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2. Then we got this KC-135 from Fairchild AFB
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3. Not long after, Hawg 95, the RC-135 took off for a sortie..
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Then it was a few hours wait before the next wave of Eagles launched, this time it was about 8 aircraft.
5. Once again, the pilot had seen us..
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6. And gave us a nice low wing waggle
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9. Then a lovely C-17 came in..
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Then a frustrating situation arose. The F-15s needed the cable rigged. And the RC-135 who wanted to perform touch 'n' go circuits needed it de-rigged. And the Eagles were taking ages to come in so the RC-135 just decided to do one touch 'n' go circuit and then land.
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11. RC-135 going into the stormy cloudscape..
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12. Whoops..
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13. The one touch and go we did get was lovely though!
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14. Threshold markings all over the aircraft!
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15. Cheeky chipmunk cheeks!
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And now onto Tuesday, the weather wasn't great. Unfortunately before we'd arrived there had been a Maxwell C-130H and an Illinois KC-135 with a lovely new tailband.
17. Last chance checks..
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18. The sun did briefly pop out!
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19. This based MC-130 landed, took off, did a couple of touch 'n' goes and then landed again.
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20. Then a lovely Tennessee KC-135 arrived!
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21. Then the C-17 from the day before departed just after they changed runways!
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23. One of few 100ARW KC-135s I saw!
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24. Eagles everywhere! The ones on the left are on the maintenance line. The ones in the middle are at last chance checks and the ones on the right are on the flightline.
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25. Got a five ship launch
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26. This guy went out as a Quid to help refuel something in the north.
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27. The last Eagle we saw before heading off Fairford bound!
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Hope you enjoy,
Chris
