RAF Fairford

[ApOrbital]

Just been told a few u2s will be landing tuesday and not the irish band.

[Trevatanus]

indeed.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/332375753559900/?f...

[Crush]

Those things are bloody loud on takeoff, love them!

[ukaskew]

The noise, even over West Wiltshire where I live some 50 miles from the runway is immense (they normally fly directly over our house), hangs in the air for minutes.

[aeropilot]

I remember the days when there was a permanent resident U-2/TR-1 detachment at RAF Alconbury......

[NM62]

aeropilot said:

I remember the days when there was a permanent resident U-2/TR-1 detachment at RAF Alconbury......

Wasn't there 9 TR-1A's stationed at Alconbury at any one time( I know some went out to Germany and Italy ) , I logged something like 20 out of the 33 built over the course of the unit's time there.

I remember when the two seat U-2 turned up for ground instruction.

Also the U-2R's at Mildenhall with Det 4 9 SRW (saw 4 in total) and the truck that followed them down the runway to catch the wing tip's.

We used to 'rough' camp at the cabbage patch at the end of Mildenhall's runway, the U-2's made noise, but not as much the SR-71's and their entourage of KC-135Q's which always left about an hour before the SR.

[diametric123]

I'll let you know - I'm currently sitting in my house half a mile from the end of the Fairford runway...

Nothing yet!

[ApOrbital]

11 pm was the first lot 9 all landed late at night.

[NM62]

9- That's a fair old deployment!