06/06/2016: Three B-52s from Minot Air Force Base land at RAF Fairford to take part in BALTOPS 2016. 2nd Bomb Wing Public Affairs:6/2/16 Fifteen NATO and two partner nations will participate in the 44th iteration of the multinational maritime exercise BALTOPS 2016 in the Baltic region. Events are scheduled to take…
08/14/2015: B-2 Spirits land June 8, 2015 at Royal Air Force Fairford, England. Both active duty and Air National Guard airmen from the 509th and 131st Bomb Wings participating in hot-pit refueling and an engine-running crew change. These skills tests validate the vital importance RAF Fairford plays in projecting the…
06/08/2015:B-2 Spirits land June 7, 2015 at Royal Air Force Fairford, England, with both active duty and Air National Guard Airmen from the 509th and 131st Bomb Wings participating in hot-pit refueling and an engine-running crew change. These skills tests validate the vital importance RAF Fairford plays in projecting the…
11/08/2013: The B-52 is truly one of the most amazing aircraft ever built. Besides being one of the meanest looking planes to look at, and to suffer under its percussion bombs whether in Iraq or Vietnam, the venerable plane has evolved with technology into a close support aircraft, or with…
