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31/08/10

This is the first trip out following by little accident and still not as mobile as I should be, a lot of these images are a bit 'belly special' but variety is the spice of life after all and it proves different angles can work.

GRISSOM INVASION

The 434th Air Refueling Wing at Grissom Air Reserve Base, has approximately 16 KC-135R tankers on strength and it was quite surprising that a 1/4 of that strength was to be seen at Mildenhall during the day.

The four aircraft I photographed all sported nose art.

The four aircraft photographed today were:

REACH102 KC-135R 60-0322 departure 1028l

REACH525 KC-135R 57-1472 arrival 1120l

REACH601 KC-135R 60-0359 arrival 1205l

REACH100 KC-135R 62-3521 departure 1357l

60-0322 KC-135R	57-1472 KC-135R	57-1472 KC-135R
60-0359 KC-135R	60-0359 KC-135R	62-3521 KC-135R
	62-3521 KC-135R

VALOR51 C-21A 84-0109 appeared in the curcuit and did several touch & goes before landing and parking up in front of the VIP terminal out of sight from John's field.

As always with the C-21 it was very high by the time it reached 11 threshold.

84-0109 C-21A

Not one but two E-3A Sentry's did some circuit bashing during the day, NATO08 E-3A LX-N90442 and NATO09 E-3A LX-N90452 where in the curcuit from 1250 to 1550 !!

NATO09 E-3A LX-N90452 kindly did a reverse curcuit in some nice light into 11 as well, before returning onto 29.

I have included some nice closeup detail shots of the E-3 again for something different.