WB-57 at Mildenhall

The ‘mystery’ WB 57 caused quite a stir in the eastern part of Holland a couple of weeks ago after a short sortie overhead Twente Airfield at about 1500′. This generated more than 100 112 (999) calls to the local constabulary and column inches in the local daily paper with several eye witness reports of a UFO and several ‘spyplane’ references!

Ain’t aviation grand! I live on the wrong side of the town to the airfield and missed it. Shame.

Thanks Elmo-might chance a little trip this week

its been fairly busy recently,nothing like the standards of years gone by but the odd aircraft drops in now and then.You can safely photograph from the 29 end via the scrub ground or i think Johns old campsite is still on the go and piccy taking is usually ok.

al.

Is it worth popping down to the ‘Hall these days?-or are you ‘disuaded’ from pointing anything at their aircraft?

I heard NASA 926 both yesterday and this evening, on the radio. One day I might even see the beast!!!!!!!!!!

any pics;)

simply for the sake of correctness the WB57 thats here at Mildenhall is N926NA ex 63-13503,the other one N928NA ex 63-13298 was here last week but didnt hang about…the previous visit a few years or so back was by N928NA.

and it does a brilliant climbout when the sun is shining.

al.

I THOUGHT it was her I saw very high yesterday afternoon. Initially, I blamed my ageing eyesight as playing tricks!! Seen from Pershore on my Russian Kronos 20 x 60’s. Great to see (albeit greatly adapted) a design of the 40’s still in operational service. Thanks for pointing this out. J 🙂