FAF Alpha's at Leeming apparently

[JPXN458]

Hi All
According to facebook two French Alpha's are at Leeming tonight one is E138 apparently...other not id'd yet....come on guys a bit more info needed on here and the Leeming yahoo group....no secrets between us please...never has been in the past no need now....
regards
Paul Greig

[mdobuk21]

Gary posted a French AF flight yesterday in the heads up section but he didn't know where it was heading, I saw the post on fb this evening too

Mark

[JPXN458]

Hi Mark
If Gary didn't know where they were heading no critisism of him waht so ever!
PG

[Razor01]

The alphas were sat on the pan at 0700 on Tuesday morning so must have arrived on Monday - apologies I was otherwise engaged today to be able to post.

P

[mdobuk21]

No Paul, was just saying a post was in the heads up section and put 2 and 2 together! surprised no one has mentioned the rumour of the Swedish gripes deployment for JW?

[Razor01]

Two alphas still sat on the pan this morning at 0700 - could make out much through the merk

[JPXN458]

One of them appeared to be wearing special marks on the tail consisting of some writing in white under what appeared to a white bird and there appeared to be some light brown/sandy camouflage on the lower part of the tail

[JPXN458]

Hi All
With my description of the decorated Alpha Jet this morning, and me having found a picture on the net of said described aircraft carrying the code 120-FO, Mr Ford made an educated guess/supposition that the aircraft will be E81...coded ???-FO, and this would tie up to the details in the notes in Aerodata, the ??? will either be 120- or 8- as the letters don't change on the FAF aircraft but the unit code is changing back to the base code(or the other way round)...

Anyone know if there are still at Leeming this afternoon?
PG

[teeonefixer]

One flew over Grasmere heading for Dunmail Raise behind a 100 Sqn Hawk about 11:30 on Monday.-EDIT I mean Tuesday !!!
I was on base today and parked near the flightline but tail-on so couldn't identify them. The one with the special tail marks flew a mission early afternoon, so hopefully the locals will have photographed or identified them........please !!!

[Yorkshire82]

8-FO is the special tail aircraft, it has SPA65 on the tail also. The other one is 8-RQ, couldn`t see other markings as the back end was hidden by a Hawk.

[Dreamliner787]

In my haste I though it read 8-FD and may have been 8-FO but had SPA57 on the top of the tail for sure

[dunmailbiffa17]

Through The Lakes yesterday along with XX332 "CD" The un-special one,

IMG_1400_filtered by IAN NICOL-HEAP, on Flickr

[Billyzinc]

What an excellent photograph.

[Razor01]

apparently one had a under carriage issue at the beginning of the week - with a fire truck greeting!

[dunmailbiffa17]

[teeonefixer]

Cracking shot Ian !
Was that you climbing up the side of Steel Fell around 10-ish ?

Shame no-one caught the other aeroplane

[dunmailbiffa17]

Thanks mate,i was up there around 930 ish i did hear there was some body else further along but did not see them at the time.I have been lucky with French Alpha's over the years but this was the first at 250ft,the Pirate leading him was as superb as always.