Nice selection. Was there about 6 years ago and looks like they have tidied it up a bit!

At Leuchars just now , us ones getting ready nosing of the other 2

E -2 , hawks and rafales on flight line when we arrived. All since hangared and deliberating if worth waiting on

Alastair. (End of a wet and windy Leuchars runway)

Hungarian Gripen, Radom August 2009

Details up now :

http://www.luftwaffe.de/portal/a/luftwa ... jpcfBtezfQ!!/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

According to Scotavnet UC-35 166714 inbound now. "passed galashiels 1400"

Apologies for delay but packing things to move and found BARG 1994. So without further delay and thanks to the aforementioned publication : USS Guam - 4-5/6/94 CH-46E : 157673/01, 156473/02, 154856/03, 153983/04,154854/05,154849/06,153395/07,157651/10,153333/12,157675/14,156456/16 AH-1W : 160810/20,...

In addition two Hawks plus Concorde flew over after the Herks. Southampton ATC : " 3 unknown aircarft out there ...looks like Concorde and two others ...We're not expecting anything?" Reply "We are and yes you are too!" If you need the shipboard stuff I can get it from my logs (courtesy of BARG) but...

1994 they tried for 40 C-130s, boosting the line up with Lyneham examples. Due to the Rwanda operations, the RAF machines were constantly changing, recall one guy asking where XV*** was (per checklist) as it was the last one he needed to photograph, only to be told it had gone out that morning early...

Found mine has been having auto focus problems, since Fairford. (Blamed the damp but its continued) Thought it was low contrast subjects but Reds at Leuchars played silly b too

Sooty, did cleaning camera contacts help ?

Alastair

Great set, gutted my hols all used up!

Leuchars 15/9/12
Alastair


Meteor by Alnewhaven, on Flickr

Leuchars flypast was LA code?

MM7296 & 7297 are the euro fighters. 2 Norwegian F16s one special scheme as well

The Typhoon was a single seater, so probably EV (not sure where I got "C" from but it was late on, the original image is a bit dark on camera and my eyes are past it!!)

Thought there was a flypast on Monday, certainly something noisier than the usual Easyjets over Restalrig at 2100

Alastair

Hauled myself up Calton Hill for Saturddays flypast, hoping to ctach them over the castle. Instead they came in right over the top ... http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7276/7473280866_05fbaacf95_z.jpg Typhoons over Edinburgh by Alnewhaven , on Flickr http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8010/7473291374_8ed128...

Wonderful!! Saw her from the shore but no closer. I do recall an SH-3 clattering past our kitchen window inbound Turnhouse I guess and wonder if that was the one you said was carrying Heath

Ive got some from December 93 ( I think) with them assembled. Were these just after theyd been delivered?

IIRC they joined the Hawarden collection of Soviet metal, after that I dont know

seven wrote:Where the hell did that come from! The previous regime never operated C-130's! Well caught indeed!

7

Yes they did, some were embargoed by the US in the 70s however.

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