Hi, I lost interest in aviation after the Tornado's were retired and have only ventured out a couple of times this year with the camera, to be fair I have really enjoyed the few days out I have had and I hope to contribute more again to this site in 2024. Here are a few of my shots from Chinooks at ...

Hi All, I called into Barton yesterday evening to see Lifter 1 and 2 arriving for fuel, luckily they arrived bang on sunset. https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1734/27952053997_a2d02e9054_o.png C78P4675 (1)-1600 by Mark Connolly , on Flickr https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1738/41920352685_38cf208bbf_o.pn...

Hi All, A few shots from Valley and the A5 pass from the last couple of weeks...... Strikemaster https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1734/42430445002_fed63bf21a_o.png Strikemaster by Mark Connolly , on Flickr https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1743/42500950471_4d8861875d_o.png Strike2 by Mark Connolly , on F...

Hi All, Barton has been fairly busy with military helicopters in recent months and on Thursday saw a visit from a Royal Navy Merlin to do circuits then rotors running refuel, light was tricky during the circuits but cheered up for its departure. Turning onto finals https://farm5.staticflickr.com/479...

Hi All, A few shots of the recent military helicopters that have visited Barton A pair of Wildcat Lynx's https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4393/36932192430_de2ee799f1_o.png Pair by Mark Connolly , on Flickr https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4435/36491750594_51c9b89a63_o.png Pair x 2 by Mark Connolly , on ...

Hi all, After having a great day at Coningsby on Monday I decided to end my week holiday at my local Warton. What a day it turned out to be! I was happy to see the Saudi Tornado out on the apron when I arrived so would have been happy with just that but Warton provided much more......... :clap: I ha...

Hi All, I decided on a trip to Coningsby on Monday in the hope of catching the German Air Force who are visiting and I wasn't to be disappointed :thumbs: The weather was a different ball game though, bright sunshine then extremely heavy downpours :@ The German Typhoons were 1st out https://farm5.sta...

Hi all, After a bad few weeks personally, I decided to take one last chance of catching pinky at Marham before RTP. Luckily she came out mid morning and Marham were using 06 so I also caught a hot pitting jet, I also got the chance of nipping to Lakenheath for the visiting SP F16s! A few pictures fr...

Hi All, A few pictures of 2 visiting Apaches to Barton yesterday https://c1.staticflickr.com/4/3940/33258133480_8e8d3679d6_b.jpg Apache 6 by Mark Connolly , on Flickr https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2842/33584162606_18452aa816_b.jpg Apache 4 by Mark Connolly , on Flickr https://c1.staticflickr.com/4/3...

Hi all, There have been some nice military visitors to Barton in the last couple of weeks, unfortunately I missed the Apache. Chinook http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/bb198/markcon_2007/Chinook%20jpeg.jpg [/url [URL=http://s211.photobucket.com/user/markcon_2007/media/c1%20jpeg.jpg.html] http://i21...

Thanks for the comments chaps.
The pictures were taken down the lane by the wrecked house.
Thanks
Mark

Hi all, I made the fairly long trek from Manchester down to Suffolk on Tuesday for my 1st outing this year, four seasons in one day summed up the day weather wise, but the sun shone when the 22s arrived :clap: 1. Early morning departures https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1537/26158541710_0dcc0f5696_o.j...

Thanks for the comments chaps!
The tornado had an issue yesterday it was out for around 10 minutes then did a flyby inspection,it went out over the sea burned fuel then came straight in,I guess it could an easy fixed.
Tarnishes in the fast jets, Vadar 2 was the Falcon mate.

Hi all, After hearing that Warton was open on Saturday I nipped over to bag the Saudi Tornado and got a bonus Typhoon also! Saturday movements.... 1. https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5811/21688673493_31336117f4_b.jpg 703 jpeg by Mark Connolly , on Flickr 2. https://farm1.staticflickr.com/680/223203000...

Hi all, Was going to spend the day at Coningsby but due to night flying decided to tag a morning at Lakenheath in as well, movements were good at both bases with Coningsby throwing up a big surprise.... 1. https://farm1.staticflickr.com/686/21064818323_9418de81f9_b.jpg VAS 010 by Mark Connolly , on ...

Hi mate,
Typhoon E-BB was ZK339 Apollo 1, Apollo 2 came through about 5-10 mins after I can get that for you later
Tornado was tail ode 097 ZD749 Marham 21

Hope this helps
Mark

Hi All, I finally managed to spend some time out with the camera this last week, starting off at BAE Warton on Tuesday, before moving on to RAF Valley on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. 1st up some shots from Warton some taken on the other side to Naze Lane. 1. https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5769/20...

Hi All, Had a trip to Shawbury for the Cosford airshow departures and arrivals..... 1. Red arriving https://c4.staticflickr.com/4/3717/18654350209_2ed1e49142_o.jpg Red by Mark Connolly , on Flickr 2. F16 FB136 taxiing for departure https://c4.staticflickr.com/4/3713/18812340676_cb09669b38_o.jpg F16 ...

Hi all, Me Cyril and Joe made the long trek from Manchester to RAF Marham on the hunt for the special tails. We were set up at the 06 end hoping that 9sq would taxi past in front of us only to be thwarted when Fang taxied out and turned left :Oops: So a quick flit to the 24 end resulted in us catchi...

Hi all, Decided on a plan of LN for the departures of the JZs then a hop over to Coningsby for the afternoon/evening entertainments! It was a fair trek from Manchester to Lakenheath and the JZ shots were nothing special but Coningsby did not disappoint :clap: JZs at LN 1. https://farm8.staticflickr....