Thanks all - much appreciated.

I am thinking of getting over to LN next week to see the F15/F35 'take team'. Can anyone help with the 200/201 buses from Brandon station - how close do they stop to the viewing area? From the timetable it looks like they must go pretty close but I don't know whether there is a stop. Any help apprec...

Cracking - especially #1 - a proper aircraft not those ugly F35s!!

Old skool hercs and a nice paint job too! Super pics!!

Thunder wrote:They all appear to have the same amount of mission marks applied, seems odd?

It's like an Airfix decal sheet - they had to paste one on each eagle!

FC is a site I couldn't live without - I'm not a hugely 'active' member - I can't get out to see much activity unfortunately working in London and being unable to drive but this forum has been a daily part of my life since around 2010 when I discovered it - so a big thank you from me to the guys who...

After looking at those silly F35's it's nice to see some proper dirty jets. Long live the Phantom!!

I hope that someone somewhere gets some paint cans out and jazzes them up a bit when the F35 goes into service - lets be honest they are far too expensive a toy to use in actual combat so the 'low visibility / stealth paint' (or whatever they are coated with is redundant anyway. The Japanese have so...

I'm with page_verify on this - I wrote something similar on another thread on this forum about this subject. How likely the above scenario is (a special forces 'take over' of one of the Baltic states) I don't know (certainly not unlikely) but it would be a sure fire way to undermine and expose the c...

Thanks for this as I was gutted to not see them come through London yesterday. Sad to see them go - a little legend!

Cracking!!

Thanks for the heads up - I'd have liked to have seen this but I'm not in London next Friday. Always liked the Naval Lynx - I remember making a few Airfix versions - tricky little oh fudge if I remember rightly! :-)

Nice video - notice how fast those chase cars are having to go - the landing speed looks fairly pacey!

In reply to Graham - yes I believe that was very much the plan for the 'Twin Bases' hence why all the A-10 squadrons had forward operating locations (FOL) in Germany which they would regularly deploy too. That would have allowed those bases and additionally places like Wethersfield and Sculthorpe to...

Phantoms and bonkers camo on the Eagles - waheeyyyy! Great post!

Thanks Tankbuster for the reply - that does ring a bell in terms of local pressure.

Slightly off topic - sorry - but continuing with a line of conversation in this thread. I did know that Bentwaters had a lot of money spent on it before it closed but I didnt realise it was specifically for F15 ops. Was the plan to close LN in that case and base the F15s at WR - what was the reason ...

I'd always guessed (though I stand to be corrected) that the Germans have an issue with the US military on their soil - I can see why many in Germany (and in German politics) might see it as a hangover from the Cold War and a rather imperialistic gesture from the US. These days nothing is set in sto...

Indeed - this was supposed to have been in the 'can' so to speak years ago - it's had a very protracted conception. As far as I am aware it is going to be based on Donald L Miller's fairly recent history (published around 10 years ago) called 'Eighth Air force' - it was mooted as being the biggest b...

Call me pessimistic but I think thats a very likely scenario and I agree with Page Verify and 22A - I really can't see there being a collective response - especially not in military terms. Putin could finish the idea of a NATO as we know it in just a few weeks by annexing one of the former eastern b...