On Forces TV,ch 264 tonight,,9pm....featuring those that give us the fantastic shots from the Mach Loop etc.....both photographers and aircrew......enjoy!

Italian Falcon 900 arrived 1400

Doubt if they are wx diverts...although they all seemed to route in from a northerly direction,there are plenty of other RAF stations/airports between,that they could have gone into.....presume it's a planned visit/exercise etc

Saw a reporter on BBC News 24 earlier,saying that at least 6 USMC AV8s had been destroyed/badly damaged.....seems like the insurgents had explosives strapped to them and detonated themselves by the a/c involved......reporter also said that some of the insurgents were wearing fake US army uniforms!.....

This must have bought dignitaries etc in for a ceremony at Polish war Memorial,as it now has several wreaths laid against it in Polish colours/flag etc.....Poss Battle of Britain Memorial service,..........Departed pm today

Hi...believe the Etendards used "Kimono11" flight as thier callsign

Nht 12 just arriving home....doing a few circuits here as well

First scramble was for a Thompson/Thomas Cook? aircraft that took ages to switch from Brest control to London control,so effectively went out of comms......one Typhoon was scrambled from Northolt,but then QRA was called off as it got airborne

Wouldn't have expected anything less!....spent many a happy time flying on VC10s and cannot recall experiencing a bad landing......will be a very sad day when she no longer graces our skies!

Nice capture!....was there a crosswind/gusts there at the time?,as r/h landing gear seems firmly planted,whilst l/h is sill in air!

AN30 just routed ott London poss into Brize....poss civil due c/s...no other details

British Aerospace at Weybridge had a windshield testing facility when i worked there in 70s.....used to fire chickens of various weights and multiples,(could fire up to six small sized birds,if memory serves me well),at a whole range of speeds. Remember Jaguar windshields being tested there and i'm ...

How about a new campaign to get Dilligaf's avatar put onto the fin of a Voyager......underneath could be written "Brize Norton...home of the RAF's heavy twins".......i'm sure that would turn heads wherever it went!!!

Love the shot of the RAF Regiment?,trumpeters...the little guy in the middle reminds me of the sketch done by Ronnie Corbett,Ronnie Barker and John Cleese......"I look up to all of these...i know my place"

Nice to see the SP is still going...spent many an hour working on that a few years ago!

Saw ZZ330 route ott London earlier as RR2635....visible also on FR24....seems to have come in over Germany/Netherlands

only "Razor 14" done a go-around.....looked good sideways on over top of my house!

Raised the fate of ZD949 in Jan 2011 on FC and was told that withdrawing it wouldn't happen re the money spent on the upgrade!....reality then arrived at MOD so no point in spending vast sums on modern avionic upgrades,whilst the rest of the fleet is 30 years old,and seems to "fall apart" on a regul...

Does anyone know if the new Yellow post type fence that has sprung up at the 25 end in the past week or so, is a going to be a permanent feature?,or is it still a "work in progress",to be filled in,(ala Heathrow) at a later date?. Certainly gives a great view over the airfield and stops the old cras...

On the Defence News website,it says that there is an All Party Parliamentary Group"welcome home " reception for personel who were deployed on Operation Ellamy in Libya.....Probably something to do with this,so i would assume it would involve either Tornado/Typhoon or both......weather looks crap for...