The supersonic bombers have returned to Europe.
Flying as SPICY21 and SPICY22, two B-1B Lancer bombers, belonging to the seventh Bomb Wing, from Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, landed at RAF Fairford, in Gloucestershire, England, UK, to kick off the primary Bomber Job Pressure deployment for the British airbase of 2023 (BTF 23-3). Two extra B-1s are deliberate to deploy to RAF Fairford on Could 25, 2023, bringing the supersonic bomber pressure supporting the present BTF.
The primary help for the deployment arrived within the type of C-5 Galaxy 11 days in the past, adopted by a Kalitta 747 and Nationwide Airbus A330 a couple of days later.
Curiously, the 2 “BONEs” (because the B-1s are nicknamed throughout the pilot neighborhood) assigned to the ninth Expeditionary Bomb Squadron, entered the European theatre by first integrating with Allies and Companions conducting NATO’s Air Policing and Air Shielding missions all through the Baltic Sea area after which landed at RAF Fairford at finish of a 12-hour mission. “The Baltic Sea serves as a crucial financial hall, and constant coalition surveillance of the worldwide air and maritime area preserves secure and safe passage for all,” says the U.S. Air Forces in Europe and Air Forces Africa Public Affairs in a public assertion.
As traditional, our pal Ben Ramsay at UK Aviation Movies was at RAF Fairford to take the next superb video of the coming BONEs. Remarkably, the bombers recovered straight after the day by day U-2 mission cleared the runway: in actual fact you may nonetheless hear the U-2 taxying because the Bones run into the overhead for the break.
David Cenciotti is a journalist based mostly in Rome, Italy. He’s the Founder and Editor of “The Aviationist”, one of many world’s most well-known and skim army aviation blogs. Since 1996, he has written for main worldwide magazines, together with Air Forces Month-to-month, Fight Plane, and lots of others, masking aviation, protection, battle, trade, intelligence, crime and cyberwar. He has reported from the U.S., Europe, Australia and Syria, and flown a number of fight planes with totally different air forces. He’s a former 2nd Lt. of the Italian Air Pressure, a non-public pilot and a graduate in Pc Engineering. He has written 5 books and contributed to many extra ones.
