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Picture overlap

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Just noticed that the pictures on the lower half of the page are covering some of the text, I'd fix it, but I don't know how. FrozenPurpleCube 18:42, 10 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

"RAF .." ?

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Forgive me if this is painfully obvious or explained already, but why are USAF bases identified as "RAF Somewhere"? Given the amount of time some of them have been occupied there must be a better/more official reason than simply that the sites are owned by the British government, which in any case does not explain why they would assign the name of a third organisation...? 89.243.3.185 02:24, 3 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

All USAF bases in the United Kingdom are leased and are all officially RAF Stations, each has a Royal Air Force station commander even big bases like Mildenhall. I believe it goes back to the original wartime basing agreement where the US forces are considered to be Visiting Forces and not permanent. MilborneOne (talk) 19:58, 14 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

No more C-141 Starlifters

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The C-141 Starlifter is no longer in service with any Air Force, Air National Guard, or Air Force Reserve units. Those transport planes have been replaced by new C-17 Globemaster III transports, and all of the C-141s have either been sent to the "boneyard" in southern Arizona, scrapped, or sent to air museums. The same has happened with most or all of the C-5A Galaxy transports, but the newer C-5B Galaxy transports remain in active service.
Large USAF/Air National Guard/Reserve transport planes are generally C-130s, C-5s, and C-17s, but there is a selection of others: KC-10 & KC-135 tankers can carry considerable amounts of cargo on their upper decks, as will the newer KC-46 Pegasus; the C-9 Nightingale is a dedicated medevac plane; and there are some military versions of the Boeing 737 and Boeing 767 flown by the USAF, Air Force Reserve, Navy, and Marine Corps with designations like C-22 and C-40. These even extend to the Coast Guard, whose long-range search & rescue plane is the HC-130 Hercules, where the initial "H" designates this role, just like it does in rescue helicopters. 24.156.77.8 (talk) 16:33, 11 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

RAF Mendlesham

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This base should be added to the list, operational for USAAF from March 1944. Crawiki (talk) 17:01, 22 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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