B-1B Lancer launching from RAF Fairford 4th & 7th September

[Leading Observer]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egTE4kJ3Q2M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeQHIyfCzuo

[kitnut617]

We used to get the B-1B's at YYC (Calgary International) quite often when the Lethbridge Airshow was running, they would stay Friday and Saturday nights as the Lethbridge runway wasn't long enough for them. That all ended though when the USAF had their major base re-shuffle a few years ago. We don't see very much of their hardware anymore unless I go up to Cold Lake or Abbottsford

[Captain Canada]

Vulcan, she is not ! lol

One came to Sarnia a few years back and did a high-speed pass into the vert....and wow.

[PR19_Kit]

Vulcan, she is not ! lol

But almost as loud in burner!

I may have seen that B-52 that came over with the Bones as there was something big with VERY long wings  tracking over the Severn well south of the Bridges the day before y'day. It was too far away to identify but the timing was pretty close.

[eatthis]

Vulcan, she is not ! lol

But almost as loud in burner!

I may have seen that B-52 that came over with the Bones as there was something big with VERY long wings  tracking over the Severn well south of the Bridges the day before y'day. It was too far away to identify but the timing was pretty close.

iv only seen the vulcan in the air at cosford (so about 1/2 a mile away?) and i was within 100 yards of a b1b idling once and the b1b was louder + the ground was still shaking AFTER it got airbourne!
never seen the vulcan takeoff though so might be an unfair comparison

[PR19_Kit]

never seen the vulcan takeoff though so might be an unfair comparison

Sadly you never will now, but it's about Force 6 on the Richter Scale.............

[Martin H]

I've seen the effects on the human body of a B-1B take off with full burners.

RIAT 2000. at Cottesmore.

Pair of bones in attendance. Come departcher day theres a crowd of people by the perimeter fence behind the piano keys. As it happens they are on a public right of way. even so the police advise them to mover a little to one side for their own safety. Needless to say said crowd ignores the advice.

Bone number one turns on to the runway. jet pipes facing the crowd. And lets rip with all four burners and off into the wild blue yonder she goes. The crowd behind her are blown 30-40 feet into the air, despite some hanging on to the fence for dear life. These idiots are picking them selves up as Bone number two swings on the runway and repeats the event caused by Bone number one.

Que long line of ambulances taking the remains of the crowd to Leicester Royal infirmary A&E (Accident & Emergency).

That was a busy day for the onsite crash crews. An hour later a Dutch F-16 accidently BBQ'd two cars and a moter bike parked in the FRIAT enclosure.

[NARSES2]

 

Beats the Luftwaffe F.104's are saw at Greenham demolishing the "Camp"