Aircraft enthusiasts: an amazing picture.

[very-near]

It's big, noisy, American and being a bloody nuisance in the Welsh mountains.

But not that the pilot knows that. He probably thinks he's flying over Germany.

(And before you all get on your high horses about being anti american, just remember the B1 that was supposed to open the Farnborough Airshow a few years back, but flew instead the length of Blackbushe airfield. Their best air display pilots, flying America's most sophisticated aeroplane were 5 miles out!)

I had a chat with the British soldier running the ground to air missile unit at the Fairford show in 2000, and he said he managed to track the big stealth bomber as it landed - apparently caused a lot of red faces in the pentagon

That Stealth bomber is huge up close BTW, it made the B52s they had a short distance away look relatively normal in size by comparison (B52s are close to the ground though on their landing gear though)

 

[Panter]

Stunning picture

 

[albal]

These ???? Nato Ex in Bulgaria

 

[just jim]

I pay a visit to airplane-pictures now and again - especially if I see something I think is unusual flying in overhead as I seem to be underneath part of the main flightpath.
I'm increasingly happier to look at these more benign modes of flight than the examples of sophisticated death-bringery that is this thread subject.

 

[Campfire]

Wow! Thanks for that link.

 

[terry huckle]

Nice video (not so sure about the soundtrack) of the Mach Loop


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcbHKafEaUs

 

[zacklaws]

There's many a photo like that posted on the Fighter control website