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Re: Spotter spotting

Post by POL » Wed Apr 26, 2017 4:39 pm

Cosford 2016 - Saturday arrivals

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Cosford 2016 arrivals crowd by Chris Globe, on Flickr

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Re: Spotter spotting

Post by Daegu15 » Sat May 20, 2017 9:41 pm

Certainly some iffy types around that Blackbird !

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Re: Spotter spotting

Post by Knife 04 » Sat May 20, 2017 9:55 pm

1980s Daegu15 - says it all!! - strange hairstyles and clothes but all seemed good at the time (I know that!!)

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Re: Spotter spotting

Post by Daegu15 » Sun May 21, 2017 5:12 am

Without looking it must be 1985-1988 ??
I was all a bit Kevin Keegan then

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Re: Spotter spotting

Post by blakey » Sun May 21, 2017 9:16 am

Knife 04 wrote:1980s Daegu15 - says it all!! - strange hairstyles and clothes but all seemed good at the time (I know that!!)
Love the old woman below the SR's nose, looks like she was waiting for a bus to go shopping and ended up getting on the shuttle bus into the show :lol:
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Re: Spotter spotting

Post by adderman » Mon Jun 12, 2017 9:56 am

Love the old woman below the SR's nose, looks like she was waiting for a bus to go shopping and ended up getting on the shuttle bus into the show :lol:[/quote]

Perhaps she got on the wrong one at Shippey Hill.

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Re: Spotter spotting

Post by Ewart » Fri Jul 21, 2017 8:10 am

ImageFRIAT RAFAT by Gaz Ewart, on Flickr

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Re: Spotter spotting

Post by Pune » Sat Sep 16, 2017 3:38 pm

Fairford before the deluge on Monday 11th Sept..waiting for that U2s
ImageSpotters 3 FFD 11 9 17 copy by Paul Tursner-Upcott, on Flickr
If you can keep your head whilst all around are losing theirs, you have probably completely misread the situation!!

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Re: Spotter spotting

Post by slogen51 » Sat Sep 16, 2017 3:53 pm

How times have changed!

I remember a photo in a monthly magazine of some spotters at a German Navy event back in the 80s or early 90s , could have been at Schleswig- jagel or was it Eggebeck?

It was basically a long line of spotters with various types of telescopes - some brass (Broadhurst) , some heutal reuz ??( can't remember spelling) or that ubiquitous thin black pole - that also I can't remember the name of.

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Re: Spotter spotting

Post by Tangopapa » Sat Sep 16, 2017 9:37 pm

Slogen, I believe the thin black pole to which you refer may well have been the Hilkinson Pancratic. I still have one somewhere.

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Re: Spotter spotting

Post by slogen51 » Sun Sep 17, 2017 4:36 am

Ah! Yes that's it.

I used a hertel & reuss 25-60 X 60 - still got it somewhere

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Re: Spotter spotting

Post by geomar » Fri Oct 06, 2017 6:15 pm

my buddy pictured me, back at cottesmore, memoriesss
Image in action[/url] by VirtualTwenthe

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Re: Spotter spotting

Post by geomar » Fri Oct 06, 2017 6:26 pm

some photographers at Izmir back in 2011, what an event was that!!
Image[/url]spotters! by VirtualTwenthe, on Flickr

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Re: Spotter spotting

Post by eagle driver » Fri Dec 01, 2017 10:59 am

Waiting for beaky
ImageIMG_8205 by eagle driver, on Flickr

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Re: Spotter spotting

Post by jaybee » Thu Jan 18, 2018 8:42 pm

When you have the perfect partner , to share the shows with. Then there are the hard liners, that slip through the gates at Mildenhall, with a press pass :unsure: :thumbs:

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Re: Spotter spotting

Post by blakey » Wed Jan 24, 2018 10:34 pm

:thumb:
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Re: Spotter spotting

Post by Pune » Mon Feb 05, 2018 9:55 am

From a few years ago at Fairford
ImageB1B FFD 4 3 9 16 by Paul Tursner-Upcott, on Flickr
If you can keep your head whilst all around are losing theirs, you have probably completely misread the situation!!

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Re: Spotter spotting

Post by Knife 04 » Sun Feb 18, 2018 10:25 pm

From Air Fete 1986 - does anybody know this chap?

ImageF-4E Phantom - 74-1638 / SP 52nd TFW, Spangdahlem AB, Germany by Darren Currie, on Flickr

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Re: Spotter spotting

Post by Knife 04 » Thu Mar 22, 2018 11:09 pm

Another from Air Fete 1986 - Recognise anybody?

ImageF-111F - 72-1448 / LN - 48th TFW, RAF Lakenheath - Recognise Anybody? by Darren Currie, on Flickr

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Re: Spotter spotting

Post by eagle driver » Sat Mar 24, 2018 4:39 pm

All three of the guys walking through the picture, but not the two standing by the Ali camera case.

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