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Saw some photos of inside the FAA museum at yeovilton-great place.

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...


4. Favourite aircraft of the day.


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7. Another beast...


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Comments and crtiscm welcome,
Macc

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.

Chris

I do love the skyraider shot....Lovely old bird..
Any KC135 pics? from mildenhall?
barry

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.

Pete

Some really lovely shots!

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

Thanks

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;

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...









The office...













Another close up...





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...





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



Galaxy...







Look at that light/cloud...



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















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

Macc

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.

Chris


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

1440X900

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

Barry

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.

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.

That would be fine.

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

Chris

Thanks for that....

barry

As promised, Black and White 135...
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...





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



One of the based KC-135s that had just came off came back to perform a few approaches


A nice stateside surprise was this MacDill AFB KC-135


We were going to leave at quarter to 10 but then this guy taxied out...
The tail band reads "First in flight"


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:







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











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


and came back...







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













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













Like this one...



















Hell yeah! Next stop RIAT. :biggrin:

Chris

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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Chris