US Air Force Will Send Bombers to the UK in June

[pilotman6012]

The US Air Force is sending bombers to England to train amid tensions with russia,they have not said exactly what type of Bombers and are being sent in middle of June to coincide with large airshow.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/air-f ... le/2623335

[Thunder]

B-52H Stratofortresses from Barksdale Air Force Base deployed to RAF Fairford on June 1.
http://bit.ly/2s3tMKa

[dinovandoorn]

60-0002, 60-0021 and 61-0020 are the winning numbers for the B-52H's at Fairford.

[falcon]

and are being sent in middle of June to coincide with large airshow

could this mean that more bombers will show up middle june and stay for middle july as riat plays then??

[andel]

Who said it will be coincide with RIAT !?.
More airshows are being held in spring !.
It is still six seven weeks till RIAT so long time for an deployment.
Okay useually bombers go kaput so fingers crossed for RIAT .

[Eagle driver]

B-1s from Ellsworth are also expected possible as early as next Monday .
Currently inbound to Fairford is C-5M 86-0017 RCH929 coming in from Ellsworth.

[falcon]

Andel,

Who said it will be coincide with RIAT !?.

the quote is from the official message, concerning Fairford....lets hope more bombers are in and tdy will last till mid july...

[falcon]

Andel,

Who said it will be coincide with RIAT !?.

the quote is from the official message, concerning Fairford....lets hope more bombers are in and tdy will last till mid july...

[raameagle]

Why speculate?! When they turn up we will know, because they aren't going to put out a press release in advance...

Regards

[Alpha Kilo One]

I was hoping for a flyby at Florennes.......

[nellis6]

From official sources I can confirm that the B-52s at Fairford are there until the 16th June. So I presume that they will then return to CONUS at that point in time.

[andel]

I was hoping for a flyby at Florennes.......

Where there is hope .

[pilotman6012]

They will do a flyby at Cosford Airshow on Sunday June 11,2017,both B-52 and B-1B,now on the official list for Raf Cosford Airshow.

[Bennie]

Noticed callsigns Bone and Buff making a local 8 hour mission today (source: FPL).

[pjotrtje]

MYTEE13 (a third B-1B for the deployment) on its way to FFD as well... Arriving in approx an hour