Nice work mate. Good to see you've been out.

SOF Week 2024 by Duane Hewitt, on Flickr

08 May 2024 160th SOAR MH-6M, Tampa, FL

Tampa's SOF Week Capabilities Demo has always been one of my favourite displays of RW flying. After attending in 2018 I took another trip out for this year's conference. A slightly newer routine didn't disappoint. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53746346792_94b2dbb23a_o.jpg SOF Week 2024 by Duan...

I cannot see how the Cumbria Council can close the road as this gives access to a number of farms, the nearest to the range being Wiley Syke Farm occupied by Hunter Smith,then we have the families that live at White Lees and Churnsyke lodge. The RAF and other military services require access to the...

Towards the end of January and beginning of February I managed to get out a few times to Spadeadam to catch the exercising AH. Mostly gloomy, grey days meant there wasn't much light to work with, but the last day on Spadeadam ended with an awesome golden period. Sadly the sun was too low to light th...

LightningForce-1-35 1080 by Duane Hewitt, on Flickr

Feb 4th 2020, AAC Apache, Spadeadam.

AAC Apache on Spadeadam 29th January.

Lightning Force 20 by Duane Hewitt, on Flickr

Good effort Danny

Great light on the last one.

Pairs cougars are class mate.

Some really quality shots there. Look great catching them banking.

Great to see the Royal Netherlands Air Force back in town for 2 weeks. Their presence and awesome low level flying has been missed in the region during their recent absence. I managed to get out every day (less the first two days) during the deployment. Here is a collection of images from throughout...

Some crackers of the Chinooks mate. Just disappointed you never got me in the shot of him coming over the bank

Good coverage of the airport stuff. I've spent most of my time this time around at Spadeadam, so missed a lot of this. Cheers for showing.

Love the 9 markings on the Typhoons.

Cheers for all the comments guys. Below is a link from the City of Tampa's Youtube with a full video of the demo for anyone that's interested.

Thanks again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5YP0d3Z-kg

The 2018 Special Operations Forces Industry Conference (SOFIC) took place in its usual location of Tampa, Florida between May 21 and 24th this year. Every other year elements from the US Army's 160th SOAR (A) deploy to the area to provide an airborne infiltration asset for the capabilities demo that...

Wildcat...I'll never be heard to say a good word about it . Lynx wannabe. And I prefer Blackhawks.

160th SOAR (A) MH-60M.

SOFIC 2018 by Duane Hewitt, on Flickr

Great bunch. Angle of the second one is awesome.