Arriving at Fairford in atrocious conditions on the eve of RIAT 2012. From the 13th Bomb Squadron "Grim Reapers", part of the 509th Bomb Wing at Whiteman AFB, Missouri.

Main gear of the Spirit of Kansas just touched down on Rwy 09.

USAF 90-0040 was taken on charge Jan-1996. It is seen here flying over once only at Sun-'n-Fun 2000

I bet the two Norwegian F-16 pilots were just as impressed as the guys in Park n'View as 'Spirit of New York' lined up on rw27 for departure home after taking part in the static display at a super RIAT 2012.

Operated by 509 Bomb Wing from Whiteman AFB, Missouri.

Delivered to USAF as a C-123B and later converted to a C-123K. To MASDC for storage in July 1982. To the museum for display in October 1990

This Provider was taken on charge in 1957 as a C-123B and served in Vietnam from 1961 to 1972, first as a UC-123B and later as a UC-123K when the auxiliary J85 jets were added, flying low-level defoliant and insecticide spray missions and cargo deliveries into strips as short as 2,000ft. Stored at Davis-Monthan from 1976 but reactivated for the Peruvian police on drug interdiction work under US Department of State registration N97033 from 1987 (nicknamed "El Burro"), prior to preservation at Dover in 1990. Serial presentation "AF40-658" is of course nonsense and should have read "AF54-658".

The airmen and bobbies guarding the stealth bomber were surely the most photographed people at RIAT this year.