Aside from the exercise traffic, it looks like the Guardia Civil Be350 DT.05.01(10224)/09-601 arrived at Gando recently. Didn't appear to ping on trackers. Parked to the far left of the most Northerly mil ramp, next to a C212 and close to a CN235MPA which ADSB thinks was D4.06 Didnt see the beech t...

You can't beat the opening scene of TOP GUN ! Tomcats being ready launched on the carrier and Kenny Loggins singing danger zone . Fantastic. Haven't seen the sequel yet but everyone tells me its awesome but i guess a few of those people who saw it didn't even realise there was a different aircraft ...

Having seen someone shooting through the fence at LN on my previous visit, as the weather wasnt brill, l gave it a go on my last visit..... Nikon 200-500 at 5.6 coped perfectly, focus locked on and all good.... but with 70-200 f4, unexpectedly even at f4 you could see the wires.....no idea how to ex...

One of the tdy 135s departed a few minutes ago as quid 31....didnt read serial, was heading for cover from the rain!

lifter40612 wrote: ↑

Wed May 26, 2021 8:49 am

TR1 083 Sitting outside the hangar

Hasnt been a TR1 since redesignated as a U2R 20 odd years ago or more ! It's now a U2S

Rob666 wrote: ↑

Wed Sep 11, 2019 5:41 pm

So any clue to time down.

Before 8.45 local....

Just seen one over cheltenham.....and saw two earlier too....a good day haha!

Notam or not, one doesn't 'normally' expect info' about a shitload of civvies making the news on Fighter Control really? Surely a separate Topic of "Fairford 75th", unless we're sinking to UKAR standards of reporting every spam-can with a roundel on it? :roll: May as well list the spam cans to make...

Yeah but it doesn’t help those that may need to travel several hundred miles to see them and need to plan ahead. All very aware that military a/c have their own agenda and things can and do change at short notice, but idle speculation doesn’t help us enthusiasts, exactly what’s been happening over ...

I thought it was mentioned last Friday that they were here for possibly up to two months, seems very strange that 5 days on some have them going home??? What was actually said the press conference? Take it as it comes, on their first flying day folks were saying one was going home....it went to kef...

Luketurfrey1 wrote: ↑

Wed Sep 04, 2019 8:54 am

Any activity around any of them yet?

Been activity around them since i got there just after 7, no notam still though

Well if one has just departed, there is another circling Tewkesbury for most if the last hour, 60002, marked 2BW with green stripe....

Undertaker wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 27, 2019 1:39 pm

which U-2 was it today, the local Fairford blog has 80-1080 but also 80-1070 as still here ?

070

thevulcan wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 27, 2019 12:45 pm

Any idea how long these circuits will be going on for?

Last lot was an hour, this could well be same and end 30 mins before the extended notan expires

On the other hand, the PCB group were taking orders for t shirts and patches for the buffs to bring over in September, Ample Strike normally has buffs based at Ffd, and both Jersey and Sanicole have B52 flypasts listed, so everything points to B52s arriving....just not imminently with the lack of an...

Shouldnt some support have arrived by now if the buffs were to arrive on 28th? From all the other Ffd posts, all support flights so far ahave been from Whiteman.... or have l missed something?

No probs.Nighthawke I think that after shooting Slides & Prints for 40yrs its hard to realise what you can do with digital thesedays as you were pretty limited to 50/100ASA in those days even though I did try a 200ASA once but that came out a bit grainy some delights I have - polished metal - Light...

ZH887 was the RAF herc, with the famous 100yrs sticker applied

And as the regular forces decrease in numbers ever further, where is all the training capacity a d funding for hundreds of conscripts who do not want to be there in the first place come from? Far better to keep our regulars as a fighting force, not trying to better today's undisciplined "yoof". Seem...

Not seen anything re the AAC 212's fate/future, does this mean that we are getting rid of all the 212's?