Outstanding! Looks like there were two VC-10s keeping the F3s and the GR9s in fuel for the trip across the pond. I'm guessing the L1011 was transporting the ground crews behind them.
I once asked an F3 pilot when they typically switched on the afterburners. "There's an off button?" was the response
We don't even have a military base any more...when I was a kid, it was an Air Force base as well as a SAC base, so I got to see all sorts of cool stuff flying around. A friend of my parents used to fly his T-33 over the house all the time, much to his CO's chagrin...as kids, we thought it was so special. Same friend sent us cassette tapes from his cockpit while he was flying missions over Viet Nam...seriously colorful language in those!!! Later it became a Naval Air Station...kind of boring, really...nothing but P-3s all the time...then during all the base shutdowns during the Clinton administration, NAS Bermuda was one of the first to go...may also have had something to do with an "expose" Sam Donaldson did on NAS Bermuda, and how high-flying officers were "wasting" US taxpayers money by coming here on official business and *gasp* playing golf!!! Thanks, Sam.
