Travelled down to the Loop with TomTwin and Rob for the first time since last August, and had a great day. All started at 8:45 when we were in position at Corris Corner, and full of trepidation for the day ahead. 2 hours later, nothing had happened, and fears of a blank day started to creep in! However, that was quickly kicked into touch when the area went bat crazy for around 2 minutes, with a 100 Sqn Hawk T1A, a Typhoon that exited the Bwlch rather sharpish and scurried off elsewhere without visiting Cad or even CC, and a first for us, a King Air! Comments and criticism welcome on all of the photos.
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A slow morning was livened up by the arrival of a Tornado GR4 at around 1155, such a sight and sound! The next 2 hours were spent waiting for the next movements, which were a trio of Hawks, quickly followed up by an Typhoon T3, another first for us! A final first was the arrival of the Qinetiq Tucano, at 1630, which looks rather splendid in it’s colour scheme!
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Personal highlights included the primer Typhoon, yet another first, which arrived at 1540 with another Typhoon and of course the superb Tornado pass at around 12 o'clock!
Almost got carparked by the late Herc, would have been a sorry ending! Didn't manage to get any of Lakenheath's finest today but I was not going to be greedy, had far more than I was expecting through I have to say, so all in all, a great day at Corris. 13.
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Great to meet up with Rob again, always a pleasure, definitely doing the Bwlch next time my friend! Comments and criticism are welcome as always, I can't seem to get my photos looking quite as I'd like them but oh well, kind of got used to the limitations of my set up. Time to save up for some new equipment methinks!
Also had to use a Picasa 3 watermark as when I exported from Lightroom the photos were incredibly pixelated, so I will need to figure out how to avoid this problem in the future.Cheers for looking guys!
Jack.
