One Herc dropped parachutists yesterday evening in groups of severn, it went up twice, each time with two groups. For the final drop, I saw at about 7 pm they were wearing night vision goggles and radio traffic suggested they were going again after dark. A second Herc was loaded up with a couple of ...

Yes your are right, I'm wrong, its the 27 threshold the eastern end of the runway the road is called Whelford road.

A notice in on the notice board by the square in Lechlade talks of "giant voice activations, simulated detonations, simulated firearms use, adhoc notifications, increased aircraft movements and tented accomodation on base some of which may be visible" The unit being exercised is 501st Combat Support...

A pair of F35 (sounded like a pair I only got to visually confirm the last one) just (9:15 ish) just left or did a touch and on runway 09.
Just the one pair and its been quiet since.

It does occur to me that Trump's rants are unlikely to do the F35 sales team any favours. With many European countries feeling unhappy about being over dependent on US weapons.

A 747 freighter left Fairford about 16:45 local

Its not just drones, years ago I was sat on Bluebell (a loop camera site just before the steep hill on the A470 west of Dinas Maddwy) and in the woods on the opposite side of the valley was a cycling event run by a popular brand of caffeinated drinks. The local hotel had some army medics helping out...

It was still parked up close to Marston Meysey on the south western side of the airfield around midday when I drove pass, but it could go anytime, if it passed it's engine checks and there's a tanker available.

From a relability point of view the old PSTN is much more reliable than mobile/IP systems. Firstly the PSTN exchange had reliablity constaints, the system (not individual connections) was supposed to have five nines reliablity (99.999%) this works out to less than six minutes down time a year, and t...

I'm not convinced that the F35 is a subsistute for the Sentinel. Firsly when it comes to Radar size matters, a bigger aerial gives a tighter beam and a narrower reception angle. This is why the radar on the E3 AWACS is so huge, a big aerial gives better range, but needs a bigger aircraft this also a...

The helmet bumps have infra red LED's so the Typhoons avionics can figure out which way the pilot is looking, this allows the pilot to identify possible targets without pointing the aircraft at them. see http://www.baesystems.com/enhancedarticle/BAES_157468/typhoon-helmet for a better explaination. ...

I'm afraid as far as I know there is no way of knowing, whats likely to turn up in the loop and when. Weather, operational commitments and the type of training currently being undertaken all influence what turns up. There are a few photographers who seem to get tips as to planned movements, but the ...

Surely the cost of the truck is irrelevent it's who or what were in the truck and what they were doing with it that matters. If the pickup had a soviet .50 cal or even a 23mm then any low level attack would have put the attacker at risk (small but real), a low level attack would also have risked war...

This is my first post so I'll see how it goes, I had the good fortune of capturing 182 I the loop.