You Can’t Make These Things Up.

Via An Englishman’s Castle:

24 hours ago, at 16:03 precisely, having flown for 8 hours non-stop from Offutt Air Force Base Nebraska, a USAF B-52 bomber made a precision, high speed, low altitude pass down the centre line of the main runway of
Blackbushe airport. He was on time to the second.
This achievement would have been somewhat more impressive if he hadn’t been supposed to be performing a precision, high speed, low altitude pass down the centre line of the main runway of Farnborough airport.

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