I was in Darwin when the Buffs as they are nicknamed regularly flew in, very impressive. They could not take off with full fuel and always had tankers fly in with them. 3 B1B's also flew in once, and I actually saw one of them do a barrel roll, no crap!! Being a military airfield the non civvies used to get up to all sorts of tricks especially when an exercise was on.
When the B52's were in Darwin, they regularly did low level sorties through the territory and created havoc with the light aircraft operations. wake turbulence broadcasts were very common when they were in the vicinity of any other aircraft.
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