The aircraft took off on Wednesday at 15.00z LT
and routed down towards Lands End and down towards an area off Portugal before
running south down past the Canaries. They were refuelled by SPUR 61 flight
south of the Azores taking them down towards the Cape Verde Islands. A second
wave of tankers, SPUR 51 flight then refuelled them on their return journey
before they arrived back at Fairford on Thursday 1200z.
While
landing at the end of the mission flown the morning ahead of the 20 hr sortie,
one of the B-2, AV-4 – 82-1069 “Spirit of Indiana” suffered a bird strike, as
the images taken by photographer Matthew Morris show (before and after the
hit): fortunately, the “close encounter” did not cause any serious problem to
the B-2, but it proved stealth bombers are invisible to radars…and birds.
http://theaviationist.com/2014/06/13/birdstrike-b-2-aar-over-uk/
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