The first three Canadian Hornets for CW23-2 arrived at Prestwick around 1845L Monday 28th August as CANFORCE0851 Flight. The aircraft positioned to Prestwick and night stopped prior to hopping across to Waddington today (Wednesday 30th) prior to their participation in Cobra Warrior 23-2. The Hornets...

The Hornets are 188757, 774 (both 425 Sqn markings) & 735 (3 Wing 2021 Demo markings).

Thanks all, always nice to catch one of these beasties whatever the weather.

Cheers, Tom

Typically grey day for an interesting visitor. US Army RC-12X 93-0698 arriving at Aberdeen (EGPD) yesterday before continuing the journey to Wiesbaden (ETOU) https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53126954825_4b0ae6c85a_h.jpg 93-00698 RC-12X Guardrail US Army by Tom Gibbons , on Flickr Departing a few ...

Thanks for the comments folks, most appreciated.

Cheers, Tom

The final pair of an order for eight aircraft for the Tunisian Air Force arrived from Keflavik, Iceland on delivery to 13 Squadron at Sfax Air Base. Both aircraft were in full markings and carried their Raytheon/Beechcraft delivery registrations. Both night stopped before heading off the following m...

Excellent stuff DD, that's a long old trek in an airliner never mind a RC-12!

Aye that CC-150 is a looker. Would be nice if '336 was painted in a retro VC-10 style scheme rather than the 'paint swatch' it currently wears.

And having interviewed an Air Marshall of the RAF you can do better? Can you?? Unless something has drastically changed I wasn't aware that reading an article prevents you from crisitising it?!? And as you hve absolutely no idea of my background, knowledge or proffesion it's all really a lot of hot...

I go by the callsign as being transmitted by the aircraft ZK372 was calling ‘Tyrant 41’ on arrival at Lossiemouth and arrived ahead of ‘42’ and ‘43’. If you’re going by ‘as being transmitted by the aircraft’ then yes, that was how it was showing on tracking sites however that suggests an incorrect ...

It arrived to Lossie on 22/6 as Tyrant 41. Was waiting to see which Sqn it's been assigned to, before updating the based list in the Lossie section. Odd that it's awaiting assignment to a Lossiemouth squadron given that it arrived along with two other 12 Sqn aircraft (ZK366 'Tyrant 42' & ZK366 'Tyr...

Thanks for comments folks, most appreciated.

luke28 wrote: ↑

Sat Jun 24, 2023 2:34 pm

Nice to see the majority of the typhoons in squadron markings.

Thanks Luke however I wish that was indeed the case. Unfortunately aside from those operated by IX(B) Sqn the majority are unmarked, I've chosen to show those that were carrying markings.

Spent most of yesterday in the sunshine at a refreshingly busy Lossiemouth. Based Typhoons were very active whilst only two of the P-8s were to be seen moving, ZP804 out as Stingray01 and ZP807 returning from Norway in the early afternoon as RAFAIR7040. C-17 ZZ174 departed to St Johns, NFD in the ea...

Are there any plans for a farewell tour ? Yes, Commander Air Wing Brize Norton on the Threshold shoot mentioned it - they are aiming for a 6 and half hour tour of the UK covering the important and sentimental locations of the Herc with three of them carrying out the tour - it was mentioned at the t...

Super set of shots, great to see and thank you.

ohdot50131 wrote: ↑

Sat May 27, 2023 6:07 pm

Emerged from the hangar on Friday about 14.30.
Doors shut behind and towed away to ramp.

Sounds like its been in and out of the hangar since arriving as it was seen outside late on Thursday evening, looked to be locked up and was still outside at 11pm.

Superb stuff mate, you certainly made the most of the opportunity!

Cheers, Tom

Super set, thanks for posting these and well done!

Hi all, we were overjoyed to welcome back the Netherlands Air Force to our region after a few years away. I have around 2000 images to process from week 1, so just a few for now showing some of the action so far. Including some Apache shots I've been after for many years! There will be many more to...