B52 Formation pics

[juddy]

[banjo]

Nice pictures.

[101RRS]

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 I thought the A6 Intruder were withdrawn from service years ago but they could be the electronic warfare versions (Prowler) that stayed on.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]

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]

If you ever visit Darwin, take a trip to the aviation museum. There is a B-52 on display there.

[Chucaro]

It intereting the amount of defensive escort that the B52 require

[p38arover]

It intereting the amount of defensive escort that the B52 require

[Phoenix]

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]

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 (AF, 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]

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.
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aGF4E0SLyg"]YouTube- B-52 H - Red Flag 09-5 Nellis AFB[/ame]

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.

Have a look on Google Earth at Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean - you can see them all parked ready to go.