BUFF landing at Duxford

[zenrat]

I got up close and personal with a BUFF at the Avalon air show a year or two ago.  It was smaller than I expected.

I think it's a bit deceptive as the fuselage is not as wide as we are used to seeing with modern widebody airliners, guess bombs are smaller than (most !  ) passengers! but it does have a 185 foot, 4,000 square foot wing, and a MTOW approaching 500,000 lbs....   

At the time I formed my opinion I was standing underneath it with my head in the bomb bay.  But, yeah I was comparing it to a wide body.

[NARSES2]

There is always that planned ice-berg carrier thingy