Nowt wrong with that, canny lad! Watched him trundling his way north on ADS-B.....

I seem to remember when I was working at Eastern/London Radar at West Drayton in the early to mid 90's that the Cobham/FRADU Falcon 20s operating out of Teesside used to deploy chaff over the North Sea during the "Thursday Wars" - big splodges of radar returns which took an age to clear.... Note to ...

Question is, where's "Home"? Be nice to know as a reference point.

Keep 'em coming!

Mark wrote: ↑

Wed Feb 26, 2020 9:59 am

F111's low level..... I can now die a happy man!!

You and me both. Just stunning.

What a set!

Freeman Lowell wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 25, 2020 8:35 pm

Nice, very nice. Any story to go with the shots?
Freeman

Holy Cow!

Agree with Freeman, don't leave us hanging! There's got to be a back story to how/why/where/when.....

Is it me, or is it a bit chilly?

Cold just looking at them!

Excellent set.

First shot. Belter!

Cracking set.

A set so good, I can "hear" them!

That might just be my tinnitus, but I can live with having F-16's in my head.

Cheers!

Very nice indeed!

I do like those NH90's...

Gibbons!

That boy gets everywhere!

Good luck with the new ventures!

Cracking set, canny lad!

Love Shot 4.

Has it really been 30 years? Seems like yesterday they were making their first appearances at TTTE Cottesmore during my first tour 85-88.

*creak*

Very nice.

Think a crop shot of 715 was used on the BBC website a couple of days ago.....

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-50492169

Having said that, it looks like the BBC "Reuters" photo was taken a few seconds later.....

Andy

Oh Shadies, Erics ,Queen Vic, Castaways and a few names are too rude for here ! Ah, happy days! There was new Station Commander not long after I left in Feb 99, and she closed all the bars down except the Naafi. I'd had a run-in with her at a previous posting, so it didn't entirely surprise me she ...

Luckily lardyboy999 my 2 hours Sea King flight was very nice around the Islands and my day at sea on Dumbarton Castle was calm in fact the Navy even gave us crabs free beer !! Free beer? Off the Matelots? Now I've heard everything! :lol: Were you down there when all the squadron bars were still ope...

Only did the one Sea King trip on a gin clear blue sky day to New Island and back.

Mind you, to compensate for the picket boat trip, I did get the ramp ride on the Chinook. Now THAT was fun.

Luckily lardyboy999 my 2 hours Sea King flight was very nice around the Islands and my day at sea on Dumbarton Castle was calm in fact the Navy even gave us crabs free beer !! Free beer? Off the Matelots? Now I've heard everything! :lol: Were you down there when all the squadron bars were still ope...

I think that might have been the mission that I was thinking of lardyboy, with reference to the pic I saw. I should have said also that, when I said hovering alongside the ship to refuel, the ship was underway at the time. One of my colleagues on the other shift from me went out on one of the train...

Having done a stint on 78 Sqn as one of the squadron ops clerks at MPA late 98 early 99, I can confirm the Sea King crews regularly trained with the resident picket boat. In fact it became essential training, as whilst I was down there one of the Sea Kings carried out one of the longest SAR missions...

Some nice asymmetric shots there.

:-)

Speedbird01 wrote: ↑

Mon Sep 09, 2019 8:57 pm

Very nice! Can I ask how many mm you used for those eagles taking off?

The blue sky shots were all around 400mm, the grey skies around 500mm (using a Sigma 150-600mm)

Andy.