B52's just Nuking about

Busy evening for the RAF Fairford based USAF B52's. Anyone would have thought that a dozen had taken off, maybe on their way to Iran or China but it was actually just a pair going around and around, right over our garden.
The photos are a little zoomed but otherwise not altered, cropped or any enhancements at all.
Turned out that one of them had a technical problem, the other one must have been checking on him as he burned off fuel. A well informed friend told me that it was a pressurisation problem due to a faulty hatch, same sort of thing that affected the primary aircraft, Vulcan XM598, on the  Black Buck 1 operation.

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