Specialist Competition : March 2012 - Gate Guardians

[iaint]

Afghan MiG-21 sat outside Kandahar Airfield. Taken in 2009 with a Pentax point and shoot (I wasn't going to take my DSLR with me!)


Kandahar Gate Guard by iainthomson84, on Flickr


Iain

[pedrovski]

JP gate guardian at RAF Cranwell. Taken on a trip to Barkston Heath/Cranwell/Waddo and Coningsby at the end of Feb '12

[^^Gord^^]

Sea Harrier FA2 outside the Naval Strike Wing hangar at RAF Cottesmore in 2007...

[balders]

RAF Coltishall 5th June 2006

[ZZ330]

Here is something a bit unusual I hope:



It was taken in Sarajevo Airport while I avoided being shot at and a few more are in the Nostalgic section...

ZZ

[JTM]

Hunter F58 J-4100 @ Sion

[JP17]

Mil-24D 156 marked as 007 at Inowroclaw Barracks, Poland, April 2009.

[JONLITE06]

RAF Binbrook.

[owensy]

CFB Trenton 1989 CAF Sabre - scanned from a 35mm photograph

scan0006 by paulowen248, on Flickr

[lynothehammer]

RAF Odiham 2012

[urkles]

Outside Takhli AB in Thailand is this Sabre;


F-86F Sabre Kh17-38/04 4342/5079 Takhli AB by urkyurky, on Flickr

[reheat module]

29(R) Sqn Guard

[MikeH]

Eggebeck - Starfighter+Seahawk combo:

[TonyO]

Payerne AB, Switzerland...

[SCARECROW]

Binbrook's other gate guard from a print taken in 1983

[BMrider]

C47 Dakota Gate Guardian at the Melville Battery Museum, Normandy, France.





Douglas Dakota C47 by BMrider2012, on Flickr

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[sunshine band]

The mighty XM607 at Waddington.



SB

[Savage21]

This is my contribution...the lesser seen Marham Gate Guard

[b0nd08]

tomcat gate guard by b0nd088, on Flickr

[BostonSwing]

One of Coningsbys four. Taken 11th June 2010.


Gate Guard (2) by boston swing, on Flickr