Anyone got a departure date/time for the 4 KC135's that arrived on Thursday?

TIA.

Hideous!

Nice set Dylan.

I'm an oldie as well and you piqued my interest.Saw my first one in 80/81 doing a touch and go at Wattisham when I was working out at the runway one evening. Haven't got a pic of it on digital but got it on slides as JL with 27 in 93 and FH with 12 in 99.

Caught this Tornado on the 9th April when I was there to get the Dutch heli's on Tac Blaze.

Spent Mon-Wed at the range this week. Monday was a washout as the first flights of the day went tech. Tue and Wed were great with some cracking low passes. 1 https://i.postimg.cc/85jhxtB3/TB2-01.jpg 2 https://i.postimg.cc/W4pmw2Ds/TB2-02.jpg 3 https://i.postimg.cc/HLSwSf5X/TB2-03.jpg 4 https://i.pos...

It's only carrying one acquisition round, so I doubt it's a QRA

The Dutch are back for their annual visit to Spadeadam. I went down on Tuesday and got there around 10 AM only to discover they are night flying and nothing happened till 5 PM when 2 Apaches came and worked the range, but they didn't come anywhere near me. Then 2 Chinooks turned up, working the same...

Hi Alan, nice to catch up with you and a few other folk during the day. A long day with a bit of a reward right at the end.

A few pics of some heli action from Otterburn so far this year. Despite being on my doorstep I've somehow managed to miss the 2 exercises this year and only caught the tail end of them. The Wildcats are from February and the Apaches left earlier this week. 1 https://i.postimg.cc/rsthNRJM/ott1.jpg 2 ...

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Tue Mar 25, 2025 10:05 pm

Would have been nice to see them at Sennybridge or Pembrey for a final time. Great memories of them at both locations . Farewell to the Puma. Thank you for your service .

Or Otterburn, they spent plenty of time there.

Whilst mainly interested in getting the Italians, there were of course the resident aircraft to photograph and a few visitors as well. I got 12 Typhoons in all but only 5 had Sqn markings and I won't bother with posting all the grey ones. This was my first chance to see the RAF's P8 up close as well...

Anyone know what are the two bumps/lumps either side of the spine just forward of the tail on the 41 Sqn jet and the one in the pic below it?

Thunder, oh well I didn't miss anything by not doing Thursday. The taxiway was out due to repairs. Cheers Al, catch up with you when the Dutch come hopefully. Malcy I did enjoy my trip back up there, so I hope there will be more stuff coming in the future to tempt me up. There's not much activity at...

With the Italian F35's at Lossie I decided to take a trip up after a 5 year gap since I was last there. I was there from Mon-Wed but they didn't fly on the Monday, wish I'd done Tue-Thurs instead. My first encounter with the F35 up close and the residents of Lossie dodged a bullet, when the plan to ...

Nice set Danny. I was watching on ADSB yesterday and was thinking of going down today but the weather put me off. Pity, as it looks like there was a Navy Wildcat working the range today as well.

Thanks Niall.

How long are the F35's here for and are they likely to be flying everyday? Haven't been up to Lossie for years and fancy a trip up.

TIA.

Over 8 years to get on an operational Sqn!

They also sped up the AAR refueling scenes.

Looks like a couple of Rhode Island ANG Hercs inbound.