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Saw some photos of inside the FAA museum at yeovilton-great place.
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The day after Yeovilton was Hendon, but I haven't edited them yet so here is some from the Sunday and Duxford: Flying Legends, and what a show it was! Highly reccomended.

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3. Never has green and yellow gone so well together...
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4. Favourite aircraft of the day.
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7. Another beast...
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Comments and crtiscm welcome,
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No criticism from me, they're all wonderful pictures.

The Skyraider is one of my all-time favourite aircraft, thanks for those shots in particular.
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Chris

I do love the skyraider shot....Lovely old bird..
Any KC135 pics? from mildenhall?
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Post by petebramley »

Macc

Any picture featuring XH558 is fine by me. She's such a beautiful bird and I'm so glad the guys at Bruntingthorpe managed to keep her flying.

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Post by kungfuman »

Some really lovely shots!

I would love to see a flying Vulcan again. It's great that it has returned to the skies.

Thanks :D
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Big thanks again for the comments, sorry for the fact I have been unable to post, I've been away at an adventure centre conquering my fear of heights with 75ft tree climbs and abseiling etc; 8)

Barry, you couldn't have chose a better time to post that because the day after Duxford was another day in Suffolk, this time a succesful trip to the Hall aswell as the Heath. Arriving there thinking the Galaxy would have arrived 10 minutes before we did I was surprised to see crew standing around it and then getting in. Just a shame nothing appeared in the beautiful light at about 7PM but you can't have it all.

A rather large spell of sunshine made for some lovely Eagle recovery shots...

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The office...

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Another close up...
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On the road to the Hall there is a lay-by where they bank onto finals and as one was already in the circuit we headed there for one...

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Some unusual light on the 2nd KC135 after a heavy rain shower...

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Galaxy...

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Look at that light/cloud...

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The 3rd arriving KC135 doing it's dose of touch and goes strikes on some lovely sun...

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More '135s the next day, some in Black and White.. *hint* :wink:

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By the way guys, if anyone wants a wallpaper of any of the images drop me a PM of your monitor size and what picture you want.

Many thanks, Chris.
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Chris


I do love the 5th from bottom, the one with the KC on finals.. Would LOVE that as a wallpaper for my PC...

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Thank mate, and superb pics again. U just keep getting better and better..

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Would you guys like a new MAIW forum dedicated solely to aviation photography? All the images would need to be linked to a third party site but other than that, those of you that like to spot and take pictures would be welcome to post your shots here for all to see.
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Post by Flyin Illini »

Sounds like a plan...could we make a topic like just for each other? Like MACC has his own photo thread, I have my own photo thread and so on.
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That would be fine.
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Post by MACC »

Fantastic idea Mike. Also like yours Flyin Illini.
Barry, Wallpapers in the post.
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Chris

Thanks for that....

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As promised, Black and White 135... :wink:
Well, after 3 superb succesful days we weren't going to complain, however I got news from the net that there were 2 RC-135's in and I had always wanted to catch one so seeing as I had done well with the Eagles in the past visits to Lakenheath we started our day at Mildenhall. Engines had already started on some locals and 3 KC-135's went from 100 ARW...

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While waiting for stuff to happen I fired off a couple of shots of the surrounding flora...

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One of the based KC-135s that had just came off came back to perform a few approaches
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A nice stateside surprise was this MacDill AFB KC-135
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We were going to leave at quarter to 10 but then this guy taxied out...
The tail band reads "First in flight"
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As it was holding I could see the RC135 slowly taxi on the runway from the other end but thought it might have been a tow wagon as it was going very slowly but no, it taxied down the runway and used the underrun aswell. :yahoo:

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We then rushed off to Lakenheath where we got the majority of the recoveries...

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Some C's and E's went up...
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and came back...

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and with that it was time to return to Mildenhall...

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and then back to Lakenheath for evening sorties, 12 E's came out, shame no C's but no complaints! Lush light! :rock:

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Like this one...

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Hell yeah! Next stop RIAT. :biggrin:

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Well I've finally reached my RIAT shots for editing, Wednesday was a good day. Arriving at the park and view as the B1 was rolling down the runway, I managed to get up to the barrier in time to get photos. The first few hours were very annoying, a B52, 2 C130, B757, 2 Tornados, 1 Typhoon and an E3D all turning off early. :(: Leaving me with a B1B, KC10 and 2 Swiss Hornets before deciding to move to the other end. Then the sun came out and what a pleasant day it was for the remainder. It was nice to see alot of old faces, Steve (Iskra750), Andy (Boff180), Ian and Al (Swingy) along with meeting a few new ones too Lee (LeeHathaway) and Paul (PaulK.)

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14. The Highlight.
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16. Lovely Scheme.
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Chris
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