'And I dreamed I saw the bombersRiding shotgun in the sky'
Well not plural, just singular, walking in a country lane towards Swinbrook Church, heard the roar of a jet, and there just above the horizon heading towards Oxford (could even say Woodstock) was a black B52. In and out of the low cloud and was gone, only to reappear a minute or two later a little further to the north but only fleetingly.
It had been displaying at the Air Tattoo at Fairford some 10(ish) miles to the south, so it was not surprising that it was around.
Why were we at Swinbrook,? to visit the graves of the Mitford sisters at St Mary's Church, with Diana, Unity and Nancy's gavestones set next to each other. Unity was a good friend of Hitlers, so a bomber in the sky had a degree of appropriateness about it.
Good find. A B-52H from Barksdale AFB, Louisiana. I think this one is 61-0021, and if I'm right, you can see a whole slew of shots of her here: http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.search?regsearch=61-0021&distinct_entry=true
ReplyDeleteEarly in this one's career, she was modified to carry the Lockheed D-21 drone, making her mildly historic.
Stumbled across this due to the Joni Mitchell reference. Cheers, Ran