B52 bombers depart Europe as U2 spy planes rotate 🇺🇸 🇬🇧
174,065
Published 2024-07-30
The B52 Stratofortress 'Junkyard Dog' arrived at RAF Fairford for the Royal International Tattoo (RIAT) on Wednesday, July 17th, under the callsign 'Skull 20'. It remained at the standby bomber airfield to conduct a flypast of the Farnborough International Air Show on Wednesday, July 24th.
Another B52 with the nickname 'Free Bird' also participated in a flypast at Farnborough on Friday, July 26th. That B52 arrived on Tuesday, July 23rd under the callsign 'Skull 21'. Both travelled from Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana, USA, before returning on Friday.
See a playlist of videos from Bomber Task Force (BTF) deployments to Europe here: • Bomber Task Force in Europe
A U2 Dragon Lady departed on the same day, presumably back to it's homebase at Beele Air Force Base in California. This U2 was already operating out of RAF Fairford before displaying at RIAT. Another U2 arrived to take it's place a few days later (also seen in this video).
For more videos from the Royal International Air Tattoo (#RIAT), check out our playlist: • Royal International Air Tattoo (RIAT)
Recorded: Friday, July 26th, 2024
---------------------------------------------------
Outroduction Music: Watch it Glow - Silent Partner • Watch it Glow – Silent Partner (No Co...
---------------------------------------------------
Ⓒ CobraEmergency
All Comments (16)
-
Cobra: as the USAF is now flying the BUFF-H valiant... dies that mean we can start calling em Buffy the Terrorists Slayer? 😂
-
wow amazing! I didn't think the U2 Spy Plane was still operational!?
-
Two iconic warplanes from the height of the Cold War. 4:05
-
It was lovely to have both the U2 and B52 aircraft visits. Long may they have unlimited visits to the UK and Europe. Vladimir Putin needs to understand that NATO and all individual countries will support Ukraine and Europe and, if necessary, we American, British, and Canadian (ABC) can deploy to protect these countries borders. Cold War defence can be quickly reinstalled.
-
The take off/climb on that thing is quite surprising to me. I figured itd need a little more speed but with them gian wings or whatever yoi call em it gets a lot of lift really fast
-
Why do the Brits use the lead and chase vehicles after take off's and landings?? Are they afraid the pilots will get lost on the tarmac?
-
The lead and chase vehicles are crewed by USAF personnel as Fairford is a USAF base,
-
would love to see some paris olympics security videos
-
The first plane is a U2
-
C'est vraiment impressionnant à regarder 😍
-
whats the purpose of the white car at the start of the video following the plane landing?
-
Nice bit of co2
-
Surely these planes are not still in service?
-
WWW z. 😂
-
Nice bit of co2
