Some pics from a recent E3 TDY on the UKMIL VA routes.
Some very nice trade at Lajes
Leaving the stopover behind
Rather rough arrival at Bermuda
Cleaning up after the departure.
Leaving a very windy Pensacola NAS after a quick fuel stop.
Grand Canyon 1
Grand Canyon 2
Arrival at Nellis
There's always someone who's gotta outdo you...
Hmmmn - so that's where they've gone?
Spies in the skies, on the ground.
Finally parked up.
Now THAT is a neat ramp!
Heavy Metal!
Leaving Las Vegas.
Some nice free USA scenery courtesy of Blue Sky Scenery
and a bit more.
Leaving Ellsworth AFB, Bone-tastic!
Heading for OTIS.
DownWIND leg...
Yes, I kid you knot.... 76 of them! It was rocking on the ground!!
Quick nose job.
A frozen landing at St. John's
Using most of the runway at Narsarsuaq, Greenland.
Leaving Narsarsuaq.
Leaving UKMIL Iceland - getting bored of the cold stuff now.
Arrival back into Orkney - greeted by rain and a sunset!
Airborne out of Orkney
Beginning the descent over Teesside
Home sweet home... but not for long...
Theatre duties call so climbing out over the North Sea.
Heading over the Alps. Hannibal would have been proud.
Using EVERY last bit of available tarmac at a fogbound Gioia Del Colle.
Over the sea to S(k)yprus...
Preparing to leave the RAF and Saudi contingent at Akrotiri.
Spies in the skies again... They get everywhere!
Long way around into Kandahar to allow a long low approach.
Dirty sunset.
Safely down and parked...
...just before the mist arrives.
And here it ends for the moment. A stopover at Kandahar before a return home soon.