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Unusual visitor today (with thanks to the heads up from 127.65 on the heads up section!)

130606 CC-130J 436 Squadron Lydd 16th December 2022 by Chris Wood, on Flickr

130606 CC-130J 436 Squadron Lydd 16th December 2022 by Chris Wood, on Flickr

130606 CC-130J 436 Squadron Lydd 16th December 2022 by Chris Wood, on Flickr

130606 CC-130J 436 Squadron Lydd 16th December 2022 by Chris Wood, on Flickr

130606 CC-130J 436 Squadron Lydd 16th December 2022 by Chris Wood, on Flickr

Thanks for sharing these, nice to see. It's not the first one to visit Lydd, hopefully it won't be the last.

Stunning shots Woody as always, the last two in particular.
A bit of low winter sun makes such a difference, making even a grey colour scheme stand out.

As always work gets in the way of this hobby so I couldn’t get down there, but glad the heads up helped.
Looks like it was delayed circa 90 minutes, but the light still looked good for the arrival.

127.65 wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 16, 2022 10:42 pm

Stunning shots Woody as always, the last two in particular.
A bit of low winter sun makes such a difference, making even a grey colour scheme stand out.

As always work gets in the way of this hobby so I couldn’t get down there, but glad the heads up helped.
Looks like it was delayed circa 90 minutes, but the light still looked good for the arrival.

Thank you.

The sun was almost down the tail when it landed (and it found some cloud to hide behind!), but would've been much worse if it had been earlier. I would also have missed it as I only looked on here at 1.15, saw your post and saw it had just got airborne from Prestwick - and I'm an hour away from Lydd!

It was parked in the shadow of one of the hangars so not good for ground shots. I hung around to try and catch it leaving, but the light went before it did.

Wow what an amazing shots, thanks for sharing

Stunning shots! They from the viewing area in the flying school?

Olief22raptor wrote: ↑

Sun Dec 18, 2022 9:37 pm

Stunning shots! They from the viewing area in the flying school?

Thanks. Yes.

I really must go down and check Lydd out. About 50 mins for me on the bike.

Great shot Chris. Did I see Lydd on Top Gear last night?