FighterControl

Having worked my way through a few of the pictures from last week, I'm sharing below a few that capture the mood of the trip. If there's interest I'll upload a few more in a week, so comment below if you want to see some others.

We were given almost free reign to go where we wanted, which resulted in a wide variety of shots encompassing all areas of their ops: from pre-flight right through to shut down.

The Fitters were kept in HAS's overnight. The first activity of each day involved dragging the days' flyers out and moving them to the apron.
Morning prep by Paul Darlow, on Flickr

After a lot of work from a big team of ground crew, the pilots would then arrive at their jets. In this case, wearing immersion suits.
Immersion suits by Paul Darlow, on Flickr

Soon followed by take-offs
Take off by Paul Darlow, on Flickr

Landings
Coming in to land by Paul Darlow, on Flickr

Chute deployed by Paul Darlow, on Flickr

Taxi with chute by Paul Darlow, on Flickr

And then the same again for night missions
Prep for night launch by Paul Darlow, on Flickr

As I say, I'll share more if there's interest, so do let me know.

Stunning shots, more please. Thanks for sharing. Phil

Some cracking shots there, thanks for sharing them. Soon to be no more.

Lovely mate

Absolutely stunning, really enjoyed viewing these, so thanks for sharing these. Anymore shots are welcome.

Great set of images. Nice special scheme too.

Cracking shots of a very charismatic aircraft. I doubt I'll ever see one fly again so yes please to some more!

Cracking shots Paul, especially love them popping their chutes. Concensus seems to be we would love some more.

More please, would love to see these

Lovely shots, always remember seeing them on deployment at Coltishall many years ago

Oh yesssss!!!!!!

Yup, very nice indeed

These are "fitting" pictures for this forum ;-) Well done!

Amazing shots.

Very, very nice indeed.

The "Taxi with 'chute" is georgeous.

Thanks for sharing

Kev