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FRIAT RAFAT by Gaz Ewart, on Flickr

Fairford before the deluge on Monday 11th Sept..waiting for that U2s
Spotters 3 FFD 11 9 17 copy by Paul Tursner-Upcott, on Flickr

How times have changed!

I remember a photo in a monthly magazine of some spotters at a German Navy event back in the 80s or early 90s , could have been at Schleswig- jagel or was it Eggebeck?

It was basically a long line of spotters with various types of telescopes - some brass (Broadhurst) , some heutal reuz ??( can't remember spelling) or that ubiquitous thin black pole - that also I can't remember the name of.

Slogen, I believe the thin black pole to which you refer may well have been the Hilkinson Pancratic. I still have one somewhere.

Ah! Yes that's it.

I used a hertel & reuss 25-60 X 60 - still got it somewhere

my buddy pictured me, back at cottesmore, memoriesss
in action[/url] by VirtualTwenthe

some photographers at Izmir back in 2011, what an event was that!!
[/url]spotters! by VirtualTwenthe, on Flickr

Waiting for beaky
IMG_8205 by eagle driver, on Flickr

When you have the perfect partner , to share the shows with. Then there are the hard liners, that slip through the gates at Mildenhall, with a press pass

DSC05398555 by John Bilcliffe, on Flickr

DSC05368555 by John Bilcliffe, on Flickr

From a few years ago at Fairford
B1B FFD 4 3 9 16 by Paul Tursner-Upcott, on Flickr

From Air Fete 1986 - does anybody know this chap?

F-4E Phantom - 74-1638 / SP 52nd TFW, Spangdahlem AB, Germany by Darren Currie, on Flickr

Cheers

Darren

Another from Air Fete 1986 - Recognise anybody?

F-111F - 72-1448 / LN - 48th TFW, RAF Lakenheath - Recognise Anybody? by Darren Currie, on Flickr

All three of the guys walking through the picture, but not the two standing by the Ali camera case.

eagle driver wrote:All three of the guys walking through the picture, but not the two standing by the Ali camera case.

Not going to 'name and shame' then Eagle Driver?

Another one from 1986 - same show in front of the US Navy P-3

P-3C 161404 / LC - VP 8 US Navy by Darren Currie, on Flickr

And another - same show
SR-71 - 17980 Det 4, 9th SRW RAF Mildenhall by Darren Currie, on Flickr

Spot yourself! NATO C17, LN, 07.04.18

Spot the spotters! by James Cutting, on Flickr

Johns Trailer RAF Mildenhall 1st Sept 2018


lee blake, on Flickr

Stunning shot Lee, I knew it was low but not THAT low!!

That is a fantastic shot, I bet everyone on the trailer was thinking "I wish I had a smaller lens"
Dave.