A well-timed visit to East Midlands Airport (EMA) resulted in Karl catching Airbus Industrie A350-941 F-WZNW flying through the overhead twice en route to and from an appearance at the Rolls-Royce factory in Derby.
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For many members of the GAR team, June proved to be a particularly busy month, and only now are we all starting to catch up with our processing from the recent Northrop B-2A Spirit and Boeing B-52H Stratofortress deployments to RAF Fairford, Gloucestershire. These are a few of our personal stories of bomber success or otherwise.
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Three United States Air Force Boeing B-52H Stratofortresses spent two weeks at RAF Fairford, Gloucestershire, from early June. Karl Drage joined the RAF Mildenhall-based 100th Air Refueling Wing to witness first-hand how some of USAFE’s assets have been integrated into the B-52s’ missions.
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A week after Karl’s trip to London-City Airport, the forecast was looking promising for two days of crystal clear skies and Runway 09 operations at London-Heathrow Airport.
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In addition to the extensive list of events planned to commemorate the 70th anniversary of D-Day in the UK, Lee Flying Assocation (www.eghf.co.uk) and partners have created a unique Daedalus D-Day 70th Airmen and Airborne Commemoration, as Karl Drage examines here.
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