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Mildenhall & Fairford (Another One)

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Mildenhall & Fairford (Another One)

Post by Knife 04 » Sun Sep 26, 2021 2:30 pm

Afternoon Guys

Spent a great weekend up at Mildenhall a couple of weeks ago. Good to be back up there camping with the crew and meeting up with the others that weren't (Paddy). Good to catch up with Tony on the Friday as well. A big thanks as always to John for putting us up (and putting up with us) at The Nook!

A few from the weekend
ImageCV-22 - 'Knife 73' - 7th SOS, RAF Mildenhall by Darren Currie, on Flickr

ImageKC-135R - 62-3540 - 'Holy Terror' - 100 ARW, RAF Mildenhall by Darren Currie, on Flickr

ImageKC-135R - 59-1464 - 'Sly Fox' - 100 ARW, RAF Mildenhall by Darren Currie, on Flickr

ImageKC-135R - 59-1470 - 'Skipper III' - 100 ARW, RAF Mildenhall by Darren Currie, on Flickr

ImageKC-10 - 86-0029 - 'Gold 81' - 60th AMW, Travis AFB by Darren Currie, on Flickr

ImageRC-135W - ZZ665 'Goose 41' - 51 Squadron, RAF Waddington by Darren Currie, on Flickr

ImageCV-22 - 09-0042 'Knife 79', 7th SOS, RAF Mildenhall by Darren Currie, on Flickr

ImageCV-22 - 09-0042 'Knife 79', 7th SOS, RAF Mildenhall by Darren Currie, on Flickr

The following Wednesday I made a dash for Fairford for the 2 returning U-2s in the sunshine. Supposed to meet up with Will (24) but he was too busy taking photographs of Penguins at Cotswold Wildlife Park! :whistle: :lol:

'Black 01' - 80-085
ImageU-2S - 80-085 - 'Black 01' - 9th SW, Beale AFB by Darren Currie, on Flickr

ImageU-2S - 80-085 - 'Black 01' - 9th SW, Beale AFB by Darren Currie, on Flickr

'Black 02' - 80-080
ImageU-2S - 80-080 - 'Black 02' - 9th SW, Beale AFB by Darren Currie, on Flickr

ImageU-2S - 80-080 - 'Black 02' - 9th SW, Beale AFB by Darren Currie, on Flickr

ImageU-2S - 80-080 - 'Black 02' - 9th SW, Beale AFB by Darren Currie, on Flickr

Hope you found of interest

best

Darren

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Re: Mildenhall & Fairford (Another One)

Post by Thunderbolt II » Sun Sep 26, 2021 4:04 pm

Cracking U-2 shots there, nice work.

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Re: Mildenhall & Fairford (Another One)

Post by Seacat192 » Sun Sep 26, 2021 4:07 pm

Good set Darren.

Like the first one 👍🏻


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Re: Mildenhall & Fairford (Another One)

Post by Dave934 » Sun Sep 26, 2021 4:39 pm

I've got to be honest, the first shot is very impressive.
A really good set.
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Post by Seahawk 11 » Sun Sep 26, 2021 4:44 pm

Great set of images there, thanks for sharing them,

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Re: Mildenhall & Fairford (Another One)

Post by Pune » Sun Sep 26, 2021 6:00 pm

Cracking set Darren, perfect light, thanks for sharing 👍
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Re: Mildenhall & Fairford (Another One)

Post by galaxysi » Sun Sep 26, 2021 6:35 pm

Fantastic set.Great CV22 photo and like the U-2's as well.

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Post by Will24 » Sun Sep 26, 2021 6:46 pm

😂😂 sorry Daz, hopefully in a few weeks catch up!
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Post by paddyboy » Mon Sep 27, 2021 5:11 am

Hi Dazman :P

Cracking set there :thumbs:

Thanks for posting and well done you :thumb:

The bottle police will be on watch soon again, don’t worry ;)

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Post by Stratocruiser » Mon Sep 27, 2021 6:32 am

Excellent shots that make viewing highly pleasurable. Thanks for sharing them :thumbs:
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Re: Mildenhall & Fairford (Another One)

Post by H.A.Bucken » Mon Sep 27, 2021 10:35 am

I see 1080 has had a nose-change since the pictures taken on the 23rd.
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Re: Mildenhall & Fairford (Another One)

Post by James Cutting » Tue Sep 28, 2021 7:51 am

Hi Daz

Great weekend as always :D

Loving the Osprey shot, and very nice U-2 shots :thumbs:
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Post by johnwayne » Tue Sep 28, 2021 2:36 pm

Lovely stuff Dazza 👌

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Post by bvdbogaert » Tue Sep 28, 2021 4:07 pm

Nice selection of aircraft and some pretty good light too.

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Post by prefontaine72 » Tue Sep 28, 2021 10:38 pm

Cracking shots Darren mate but those Osprey shots are brilliant

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Re: Mildenhall & Fairford (Another One)

Post by XWP29 » Wed Sep 29, 2021 7:57 pm

Great set Daz 👍 and regret not coming up on the Thursday for that Osprey.
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Post by GhostFlight91 » Wed Sep 29, 2021 10:54 pm

Very nice mate.

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Re: Mildenhall & Fairford (Another One)

Post by rajom » Thu Sep 30, 2021 9:48 am

Great photos!

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Re: Mildenhall & Fairford (Another One)

Post by MedU2 » Thu Sep 30, 2021 3:49 pm

Great shots! Nice to get the chase car in the with the U2 to show the angle they come in at :thumb:

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Re: Mildenhall & Fairford (Another One)

Post by BomberJ » Thu Sep 30, 2021 4:13 pm

Cracking pictures of the U-2!

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