Spadeadam Wed 27 Feb - Tranquility day
Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2013 6:14 pm
It was bound to happen after Monday's excitement - sun, heat, no cloud, excellent visibility . . . what more could we want?
Well mid morning arrived on site together with a USAF MC-130H Combat Talon II of 352SOG/7SOS Mildenhall, unfortunately flying mainly to the north end of the range. A photo will be uploaded later.
Then a Aerospatiale AS355F1 G-BPRJ took over the range for the rest of the early afternoon flying test trials to the extremities north and east of the range. This seemed to put a halt to any other use of the range, yawn!
So time for a quick exit, with the proviso for anyone hoping to go tomorrow - the Aerospatiale is we think overnighting at Carlisle airport and is booked into range tomorrow, and as a result this may impact on range use by military low level traffic. Mildenhall may give info re Combat Talons coming or not to Spade, but this was a wasted day when the light was as perfect as could be hoped for at all height levels!
So back to getting Monday's photos uploaded.
Well mid morning arrived on site together with a USAF MC-130H Combat Talon II of 352SOG/7SOS Mildenhall, unfortunately flying mainly to the north end of the range. A photo will be uploaded later.
Then a Aerospatiale AS355F1 G-BPRJ took over the range for the rest of the early afternoon flying test trials to the extremities north and east of the range. This seemed to put a halt to any other use of the range, yawn!
So time for a quick exit, with the proviso for anyone hoping to go tomorrow - the Aerospatiale is we think overnighting at Carlisle airport and is booked into range tomorrow, and as a result this may impact on range use by military low level traffic. Mildenhall may give info re Combat Talons coming or not to Spade, but this was a wasted day when the light was as perfect as could be hoped for at all height levels!
So back to getting Monday's photos uploaded.