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juddy
18th February 2010, 07:42 AM
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banjo
18th February 2010, 08:16 AM
Nice pictures.
101RRS
18th February 2010, 09:46 AM
Strange mix of Airforce and Navy aircraft. I thought the A6 Intruder were withdrawn from service years ago but they could be the electronic warfare versions (Prowler) that stayed on.

Garry
JDNSW
18th February 2010, 10:55 AM
The B52 first flew in 1952. It is still in service. It is planned to remain in service until 2040, giving it a service life as a front line military combat aircraft that is unprecedented. When it went into service, the first turbojet fighter aircraft had just replaced prop driven fighter aircraft, by the time it goes out of service there will have been half a dozen generations of fighter aircraft have come and gone.

When it first flew, Australia's front line fighters were P51s, and the Series 1 Landrover was beginning to take over the world's off road areas.

John
p38arover
18th February 2010, 11:25 AM
If you ever visit Darwin, take a trip to the aviation museum. There is a B-52 on display there.
Chucaro
18th February 2010, 11:30 AM
It intereting the amount of defensive escort that the B52 require
p38arover
18th February 2010, 11:37 AM
It intereting the amount of defensive escort that the B52 require

:D:D
Phoenix
18th February 2010, 11:59 AM
Yup, that's a Prowler, not an Intruder ;)

The 4 F-16's look like aircraft from the Agressor unit (Topgun basically). I wonder what the occasion was. great photos though.
juddy
18th February 2010, 12:39 PM
Yup, that's a Prowler, not an Intruder ;)

The 4 F-16's look like aircraft from the Agressor unit (Topgun basically). I wonder what the occasion was. great photos though.

U.S. Air Force B-52 Stratofortress aircraft from the 20th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron, Barksdale Air Force Base (AFB), La., leads a formation of two F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft from the 18th Aggressor Squadron, Eielson AFB, Alaska; two Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF) F-2 fighter aircraft from the 6th Tactical Fighter Squadron, Tsuiki Air Base, Japan; two U.S. Navy EA-6B Prowler aircraft from Electronic Attack Squadron (VAQ) 136, Carrier Air Wing 5, Naval Air Facility Atsugi, Japan; and a JASDF E-2C Hawkeye aircraft from the 601st Squadron, Misawa Air Base, Japan, over Guam during exercise Cope North Feb. 15, 2010.
Sleepy
18th February 2010, 07:10 PM
I saw a B52 do an overshoot at Avalon at the 1999 airshow. I was at the upwind end of the runway.

Amazing how the undercarriage rotates whilst retracting.
YouTube- B-52 H - Red Flag 09-5 Nellis AFB

Couldn't help but wonder what it would feel like to be an Iraqi in a desert trench in Desert Storm. It looked like a messenger from hell.:twisted:

Have a look on Google Earth at Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean - you can see them all parked ready to go.
Blknight.aus
18th February 2010, 07:41 PM
It intereting the amount of defensive escort that the B52 require

trust me, they dont require it.

they require exactly one aircraft as an escort, If they get that aircraft nothing electronic is going to get near it.

the yanks have quite a few of those aircraft and they make an AWACS aircraft look like an ENIAC with wings.

a couple of trips back to tindal I got to see a sample of what that particular aircraft can do. the words ATC choas is an understatement.