This gallery features photographs of Vulcan B2s at Goose Bay in Labrador and at Offutt AFB in Nebraska. Detachments by individual aircraft to Goose Bay for low-level training were called 'Goose Rangers' and detachments to Offutt AFB were called 'Western Rangers'. From Offutt, crews flew USAF low-level routes known as 'Oil Burners' or 'Olive Branches' that typically ended with a couple of runs on an RBSU/EW (radar bomb score unit/electronic warfare) range. Crews flew Goose Rangers more frequently that Western Rangers and the latter were often combined with a Goose Ranger resulting in a 'Combined Ranger' or 'Goose-Western Ranger'.

 

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