Another excuse to search my Flickr archive :-) Not too many, but a few worth sharing.. 71st FTW T-38 at Buckley ANGB, Jul 1992: https://live.staticflickr.com/4075/4938372637_4874645194_b.jpg 70-1587 by Alistair Henderson , on Flickr] 9th Wg T-38A at Beale AFB, Aug 92: https://live.staticflickr.com/4...

Mike wrote: ↑

Fri May 10, 2019 1:13 pm

Good Lord, what a fantastic set of shots - how did I miss this when it was first posted?

Thanks for bringing it back to the top of the list for the rest of us who missed them first time round!

Quality of those is fantastic! Wish my scanning of slides gave those results, always find it very challenging. Probably not helped by having used cheapy Jessops film...

Al.

Lovely - bet that woke up the chaps at VASS!

Al.

Thunder wrote: ↑

Fri May 10, 2019 8:30 am

Can never have enough pictures of the Sluf. Just for the record England AFB was in Louisiana.

So it was! Picture was taken at Pope AFB, NC. The 23rd Wg at Pope used to be based at England.

Al.

Some lovely A-7 posts on here recently. Prompted me to have a look on my Flickr account to see what I had to offer. Not much operational stuff, they'd mainly retired by the time I got out with a camera :-( Preserved at NAF El Centro, Jul 1992: https://live.staticflickr.com/4135/4929017246_4bfbd8191a...

Only just got round to these and the Jacksonville post. All lovely, types and colour. I went to Key West in 96 when I was with the wife, young son and the mother in law, and they were very accommodating as has been said. I asked that if I could somehow lose the family, would I be able to come back ...

Lovely!! What's that window under the nose of P-3 #30 for?

Al.

Nice pictures! Particularly like that last one!

Blackcat1 wrote: ↑

Thu Mar 14, 2019 2:48 pm

Nice OTT visitors!

Certainly beats the endless streams of Easyjets and Ryanairs!

Al.

Thanks to the really helpful posts on this forum, I was able to catch the two Buffs that did the Baltic mission this morning before heading to Fairford. The weather played ball for once, and even better, I needed both machines! Both seen over Northamptonshire. https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7907/473...

Wow - lovely pictures! She looks rammed to the gills with aircraft!

looks like you had similar weather to what we had.... got to Brize at 8:30 and it was lovely blue sky, it then clouded up for the flypast before finishing the day with some beautiful lighting, you just got to love the British weather :grr: always great to see pics of the old girl :clap: :clap: Yep,...

Was very pleased last week to find out Cranfield was on the list for day 2 of the farewell flypasts, since I work there. Duly headed out of the office and was amazed by the number of people that had turned out! It was bedlam on the main road past the end of the runway, thought there were going to be...

Think this was the Saturday morning? Never been so wet in all my life! https://farm7.staticflickr.com/6064/6033116869_fda50f7576_b.jpg 68-0444 by Alistair Henderson , on Flickr Lee-on-Solent was just as bad, if not worse! Main problem was steaming up of the camera! https://farm7.staticflickr.com/619...

As with many others, I now find myself woefully short of Tornado pictures, considering how many I've seen over the years :( Still, here's a few from days gone by, I've avoided common airshow ones cos others will have much better ones that me from such events.. First up, Australian International Airs...

Maybe a respray is in order to bring it in line with their newer toys:

IMG_8577 by Alistair Henderson, on Flickr

EF-111 wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 29, 2019 11:09 am

Well caught in nice light.

I notice they have removed the RAF roundel from the front, and also (most of ) the red, white, blue stripe from the tail!!

Steve

So they have! Bit more effort required on the tail, though. Guess that's it 'de-militarised' :-)

Al.

chrisward123 wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 29, 2019 9:43 am

Well Caught Alistair.
Is it getting a new livery?

Not sure. If they do, it won't be done at Cranfield. Trying to see if the registration is a temporary looking sticker, but its hard to tell from those pictures.

Al.

Hopefully this just scrapes into the 'Military' category. ETPS/Qinetiq RJ70 QQ102 arrived at Cranfield a few weeks ago for a spot of attention. Whilst here, its been re-registered as G-ETPK and yesterday morning was the first time I've seen it marked as such. Part of Qinetiq's drive to move to an al...