Jumbo at Lakenheath

[baldy1926]

I came past Lakenheath today there was a jumbo parked up in the distance.
The colour scheme looked more red and white than the blue i was expecting.
Does any one know who's it is and what its doing there,
Thanks

[baldy1926]

Any one or any idea where i can find out

[steveo3002]

id guess its a cargo plane

[motomk]

I cheated because the bino's don't reach that far...but a Kalitta Jumbo?

[Eric Mc]

The US military uses civilian chartered aircraft quite a lot. Indeed, they always have.

[StephenP]

motomk said:

I cheated because the bino's don't reach that far...but a Kalitta Jumbo?

That's what I was thinking too....

[baldy1926]

That looks similar with my crappy binos and eyesight i could not see much of it. It was parked over the far side of the airfield and fairly front on.
Cheers

[StephenP]

They are currently contracted to the US military for international airlift services.

[Trevatanus]

Possibly related to this?

[Sylvaforever]

Probably the unique dround power units for the F35, F135 engines 270 volt batteries and hundreds of software engineers

[baldy1926]

I think the dutch had tonnes of equipment delivered with their 2.
My mate works at Marham and apparently when we get ours they will have to stay in air conditioned/sealed hangers!

[Boatbuoy]

Sounds ideal for a ship deploy-able A/C

[Trevatanus]

Trevatanus said:

Possibly related to this?

Currently delayed 24 hours (air tanker gone U/S?)

[Europa1]

I can remember driving past the end of the Lakenheath runway as a jumbo came into land. It was plain white, and given that it was a few years back the words "extraordinary rendition" did pop into my suspicious mind.

[Tim-D]

Europa1 said:

I can remember driving past the end of the Lakenheath runway as a jumbo came into land. It was plain white, and given that it was a few years back the words "extraordinary rendition" did pop into my suspicious mind.

Seem to recall the now defunct Evergreen International had some predominantly white Jumbo's and some very odd flight planning........