USAF HEAVY KC-135 STRATOTANKER MACH LOOP WALES LOW LEVEL

[@climbtherainbow]

"Any Station, Any Station"....absolutely brilliant. They knew you'd be listening so thought they'd give you a wee message. Fantastic.

[@philchadwick8942]

A first for me too. I have never seen a KC 135 that low over Carmarthenshire before. They never come out this way!!! There I was, out in the back garden, and there she was, almost right overhead!!!! Fabulous sight!!!

[@ElwynR]

Yes she covered quite a bit of Wales 👌

[@aeroplanespotterstv6868]

Ive seen one depart Fairford was good and loud kzbin.info/www/bejne/h4fdg6Bqgap9o80si=aRP9H5IAMfCb9mgq

[@davedevonlad7402]

Unbelievable cool, I am a big fan of aviation in general and you lot who did see this are a bunch of lucky b****rds.

[@stejer211]

You make it sound like a love story.

[@steverichardson7417]

Fighters are remarkable. But the Statotanker flies as though it is the definition of grace. Appearing to soar with so little effort, you'd swear it was invited aloft by the wind itself.

[@bernardanderson3758]

Elwyn you have definitely got my support in staying on track with your amazing work and dedication of taking photos and I’m looking forward for more

[@ElwynR]

Much appreciated thanks 😊

[@trob0914]

AWESOME VIDEO! It’s on my bucket list to come back(TDY in USAF in the 80s)over there and join you folks for some wonderful aircraft doing low passes! Thx for the video!!👍🏽🇺🇸

[@charliemccarthy4213]

That was nearly the best pass ever. 20 seconds in, the pilot was aiming straight at you. Pity he climbed and kept turning. Still, epic stuff. Thanks for sharing mate!

[@matjhurst]

Appeared over Gloucestershire, seemingly out of nowhere low level, fantastic sight given the rarity in these parts. Great video, thanks for posting 👍

[@melvyncox3361]

Very nice.Lovely aircraft.Just bought a 1/200 model of a Mildenhall version.Sounded lovely.Nice to hear a big jet at speed!

[@fredharrowven1040]

Hi Elywn, Thanks for the short video great ⭐️👍👍

[@ElwynR]

Thank you too ☺️ 👌

[@toadelevator]

Being near MacDill AFB in Florida which is a main re-fueler base, these fly over just a bit higher than that level quite often. I never get tired of the unofficial "airshow" around here 😊. Nice catch Elwyn!

[@ElwynR]

Cool 👌

[@wokeupandsmellthecoffee214]

Fabulous Elwyn. I'm lucky to live within 30mins of Midlenhall and Lakenheath and see the 135's every day, they never disappoint. Glad to see you guys got to see one.

[@ElwynR]

Cool 👌 😎

[@issimondias]

That is absolutely bonkers! Brilliant.

[@SwedgeFace]

So grateful you were still up there!

[@dr.OgataSerizawa]

Boeing first flew the 707 in 1957. My brother worked on these and the B-52 at Blytheville AFB, AR in the early 60s. It was the 97th Bomb Wing HQ. Was hot in October, 62.

[@simonhodson1049]

The KC-135 first flew in 1956, a year before the 707

[@jacksonphreak]

Fantastic Elwyn!! Hopefully, not the last pass through the Cads!

[@ElwynR]

I hope not! 🙏

[@mickb474]

First time i’ve seen a KC 135 in the loop. Nice video 👍🏻

[@ElwynR]

Thanks! 👌

[@bobingram6912]

Blimey, some unexpected elegance to the proceedings, that's a bit unexpected??? Thanks Elwyn, loving it🙂👍👍

[@ElwynR]

Yes it was a nice surprise 👌 thanks ☺️

[@DFitz-bk7dj]

One of the Best aircraft Ever built!! NKAWTG!!!!

[@npr1300A8]

Thank you Elywn! Amazing!

[@ElwynR]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@stevenclark1973]

I wanted him to overbank around Corris! Great video as always.

[@ElwynR]

You and me both! 😊

[@32tfs]

An extraordinary catch thanks for this post Elwyn 👍🤙

[@ElwynR]

Glad you enjoyed it 👌

[@ARGONUAT]

I’ll bet that is a Square D! When will we see the mighty BUFFasaurus make a three ship run through the Mach Loop?!?

[@ElwynR]

That would be cool 😎

[@Ian-hv1dc]

Good seeing a home bird from our base. Good video.

[@ElwynR]

Thanks 👍

[@Alphipapi]

Hello Elwyn. Thanks for your great videos. I follow you a long time ago and it’s great to be on your video at Cad East today ( with the blue cap ). Thanks for all again. Pascal

[@ElwynR]

☺️ thanks for the follow 👌 and yes you were in the right place today 😀

[@anthonymorris1360]

I love the slow lumbering entrance! All the best to you. x

[@ElwynR]

Thank you! You too!

[@Toms3110]

loved to have been a fly on the wall when this idea was first proposed....."you want to fly your KC 135 where? I'm sure you said the Mach Loop"

[@randyhayes4359]

I must be spoiled by the reckless low pass videos (which are awesome) at first I was super disappointed then put in perspective and appreciated it a little more. Still enjoyed. Thanks for the video. And I know it’s a much better goose pimples experience in person. ~R

[@ElwynR]

Glad you like them!

[@dombaum1903]

Fabulous !

[@chrislloyd4795]

Bloody hell ! Fantastic 👏👏🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[@ElwynR]

Cheers 👌

[@vitaliyvyntu4566]

Thank You

[@ElwynR]

You're welcome 😊

[@DarrenEdwardsAviation]

Very nice Elwyn, thought I could see you from the other side of the valley.

[@ElwynR]

Thanks 👌 were you up West?

[@DarrenEdwardsAviation]

Yeah, I was in the top field all day.

[@ronmac1832]

Very cool! They are a lot quieter now than they were in the 60s and 70s.

[@ElwynR]

I'm sure 👍 they are going pretty slow here so only 25%

[@alanholck7995]

They were re-engined in the early 1990s. Flew on them several times when I was stationed at Kadena. They have a lot of power, the jet in the video is throttled back, probably a compromise with leadership to allow a Mach Loop pass. When they would scramble out of Kadena they would really be hauling tail.

[@Aviation_planes.]

This beast came through the loop for 2 loops today

[@ElwynR]

I was there 👌 I should have a video up tonight

[@raptor1672]

Nice to see Her Majesty show the young 'uns some class! 😉

[@musoseven8218]

Fairford was the mainstay for KC135s back in the day - I understand why - but I'd say he really wasn't trying hard enough 😉😲😀😀 In other words I've seen em lower, but never in Wales, good cop mate✌️👍😊😊

[@billwatkins276]

Pilot always wanted to try out something like the Kai Tak approach: "aim at the mountain with the checkerboard and turn hard right".

[@needacupatea5932]

That's called dedication,

[@Pesmog]

Now that was something I would not have expected.

[@Garythefireman66]

Wow, that is a sight 👍🏻

[@andrewhotston983]

I think I saw this plane flying north over my home in Herefordshire, very low for such a big plane.

[@charlielynes]

Makes sense they would get some terrain training in, given the current situation, and the possible theatre.

[@captainbligh3894]

Well done that Squadron !!! BZ

[@AlongtheRiverLife]

Beautiful video!

[@ElwynR]

Thank you very much! 👌

[@ripple8726]

Thank you for the great footage. By the way, check out :49 and pause. I thought the sun was supposed to be a circle ! :)

[@GeoffHarrison-qf7mi]

This came over our campsite in Betswy Coed at about tea time, looked like it was heading in the genral direction of Valley., It was low enough to see markings etc.

[@solipsist3949]

I'm confused. Mach? Loop? Pretty cool, though. True story: in the late 00s I was preparing to fly an RC helicopter at a favorite spot, a spacious, hilltop cemetery near my home near Spruce Knob, WV. It sits in a pretty valley betwixt parallel ridges and cliffs of the Wills Mountain anticline, sitting roughly below the crest of an ancestral ridge which, a state geologist told me, crested at between 15,000 and 18,000 feet in elevation. There wasn't a soul in view, just grazing sheep and cattle, and it was dead silent until I heard the jet engines. Low over the eastern ridge came an enormous cargo plane, I guess a C-17 or even a C-5. They cleared the ridge and pushed the nose down, turning to the north to hug the valley floor and passing almost overhead. Several miles down the valley (the river flows to the north), they did a similar exit back to the east and disappeared. No camera, and I never talked to anyone else that saw it that day!

[@stevehageman6785]

What a crazy place! :-)

[@ClearforDeparture]

Wowzers!

[@Rhys.aviation.photography]

Awesome Video Elwyn!

[@ElwynR]

Cheers Rhys 👌

[@KC-RallyPlanes]

Seen lots of videos from here but never a KC-135, cool

[@ElwynR]

Yes a first I believe 👌

[@planestrainswildlife]

Cracking Elwyn, I saw this on adsb as it was about to land back at Mildenhall and hoped that someone caught it 👍👌🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇺🇲✈️ shame it didn't have the boom out and an F35A sucking up fuel as it went by. . . . ATB Andy

[@ElwynR]

Ha yes next time 😂

[@jameshardie9914]

Super rare indeed to one of these in the mach loop! Nice catch by the way

[@ElwynR]

Thanks!

[@jameshardie9914]

@@ElwynR no problem mate!

[@savarok]

I saw this on Radar and I wondered if it made it through the loop.

[@InitialP_Photography]

Was that today 9.5.24? I thought I'd seen something odd about a 135 on ADSB...

[@ElwynR]

Yes todayv👍

[@danapeck5382]

Very cool! Rivet Juint next?

[@ElwynR]

Yes hopefully 👌

[@НикитаБалашов-ы2ж]

TOP

[@Machlooper]

Wow what a capture . Did they go out at Tywyn and back up the Dovey Valley ?

[@ElwynR]

Yes I believe they did, and all the way round to welshpool Road

[@MikesTropicalTech]

I hope to be visiting Wales in June, is there a schedule posted somewhere so I know which days would be the best to visit? Thanks!

[@ElwynR]

No there isn't, but no flying on bank holls and weekends

[@MikesTropicalTech]

@@ElwynR Thanks!

[@paulmc2925]

I seen this on flight radar earlier today knocking around that area , 64 years old

[@ElwynR]

Is it blimey 😳

[@NeilMicklethwaite1812]

Saw him on ADSB as he went past me through Lichfield R/C - missed him by 5 minutes 😢

[@BasementBerean]

When even tankers can be badass.

[@tonyf9076]

Why in a month of Sundays would a KC135 be down low in the loop ? Awesome capture mate 😎

[@ElwynR]

I have no idea 😂👌

[@tonyf9076]

Ex F15 driver reliving his glory days ? 😂

[@samuelgarrod8327]

Wow.😮

[@puirYorick]

Any station. Any station: GET OUT OF THE WAY. Big fella moving through hot and low one time.

[@ElwynR]

😂

[@MilitaryAircraftVideos]

Wow, very nice! heard this is going to be part of their training regime so should be others fingers crossed. Now for a Buff😏

[@ElwynR]

Yes that would be cool ☺️

[@la_old_salt2241]

Oh, a BUFF would be awesome!

[@lw216316]

Wait, the folks on the mountain top had to aim up to get pics.... I thought you had to aim down into the valley?

[@THEREALLYFATPONY]

Turn at the lake would be interesting :)

[@ChevyBM]

Cool video but sad that the KC135 did not have the old engines, they made such a better sound!

[@willi19671]

Great,...... what speed was that ?

[@ElwynR]

I'd say 200 ish

[@MaverickEchoJuliet]

Best when the afterburners are lit during the overfly

[@bernardanderson3758]

Have fun

[@CarlosSpicyWeener]

More like flying just above the mach loop??

[@mickyday2008]

Great vid. Wish you’d put the actual date on

[@ElwynR]

9th May 6.30 ish pm 👍

[@mickyday2008]

@@ElwynR Cheers. We were there the day before. Hawks were great.

[@muffs55mercury61]

Military variant of the 707. This one doesn't seem to smoke like I remember the 707 passenger jets did.

[@edruic4493]

They have a common lineage but they’re actually completely different aircraft. I worked on both. 707 is larger and the systems are not the same. Regardless, I really liked the video. Thanks for posting!

[@K1W1fly]

I'm not sure this was anything more than a fun trip for the crew, as it would be very unlikely a tanker would ever need to operate down low under normal circumstances. definitely worth seeing though!

[@ryanlotgd]

got to be an interesting story behind this, wonder if the bones will ever loop when deplyed now 😅

[@andy.robinson]

They'll be sending Star Destroyers round the loop at this rate!

[@muddydave01]

KC-135 and C-130 pilot in a bar. KC-135: We're bigger and faster. C-130: We're lower

[@karlw4647]

What a sight, could of maybe been lower, dont want much do we 😂

[@ElwynR]

Yes agreed ☺️

[@ToyotaPete]

👍

[@StereoSpace]

He's been chasing that F-15 that scratched his paint for years now.

[@ElwynR]

😂😂

[@paulfreeman5756]

Brucey bonus saw it on fr24 thought bit different

[@ChrisM101]

I was hoping he would take it on down in there. But still impressive.

[@ElwynR]

Me too

[@Matt-yq4zr]

I saw the tracking on Adsb and thought to myself no way did that Kc135 go through the Machloop.

[@ElwynR]

😇

[@wessexspotter4034]

Yes, but why?? I know the pilot washed out of fast jets, but was this strictly necessary?

[@UKAviationMovies]

Ha haaaa. Awesome! 😎

[@claysmoker1]

Lower!.......Lower!

[@dtrain1634]

Haha 😜 now the c-5m needs a go :)

[@AREA_51_King_Boss]

Я так понял это самолёт заправщик для истребителей?

[@ElwynR]

Yes

[@Swaggerlot]

Presumably his retirement flight... No operational requirement to do it otherwise.

[@dmoder1019]

The ONLY time when you DON’T want the USAF to fly lower through LFA7! 😂

[@keithchapman8380]

KC 135...Mach loop 2000 feet... .54 mach... NEXT!!

[@dorsetdumpling5387]

“On” rather than “In” i think?

[@NikCan66]

That's a rarity

[@ElwynR]

Yes a first I believe! Although slightly high I'll take it ☺️

[@gerrycooper56]

What next, a B52?

[@ryanlotgd]

they are deploying here shortly ..... but dobt they would loop but saying that i never thought id see a kc135 in the loop if any of the bombers would try it would have to be the bone for sure

[@ElonMuckX]

Let’s see it Mach Loop while refueling a fighter jet 😝

[@JSFGuy]

That's an RT.

[@ralphkassing6821]

The 135 was ho hum

[@nynphose]

think of that the next time your dollar don't make nobody holla no mo

[@FallenPhoenix86]

Someone's Fini flight before retirement?

[@ElwynR]

Don't think so 🤔

[@Mikeabq1]

Quiet she is not.