NATO 32 - Gatwick 25 June 2020

[johnwickenden]

Having had visits from several Atlas over the last few weeks Gatwick had a suprise visitor this lunchtime in the shape of 8 Sqn Sentry ZH106, call sign NATO 32, which performed 2 approaches before heading off to Ringway. Believe this is the first visit to LGW by an E3 and I can't remember the last time a 707 visited us ! The following were taken on climb out a couple of miles east of the airport

ZH106-E3-NATO32-LGW-250620-1 by Jon Wickenden, on Flickr

ZH106-E3-NATO32-LGW-250620-3 by Jon Wickenden, on Flickr

ZH106-E3-NATO32-LGW-250620-4 by Jon Wickenden, on Flickr

ZH106-E3-NATO32-LGW-250620-6 by Jon Wickenden, on Flickr

[3Greens]

Excellent shots John.
Obviously a regular over here. He's done a session for the continuation training for the controllers at Manchester and now looking for some circuit work at Mildenhall.

Thanks for positing
3Greens

[Sparts99]

Wish I'd known about this, I could've watched from an office window.

[Blue Diamond]

Nice capture.

[Seacat192]

Very nice

[dlr]

It made some welcome jet noise over Horsham too !

[Imac]

Nice catch Jon You have done ok down there over the past couple of weeks Thanks for posting, keep safe

[TommyC]

Thanks for posting - absolutely love the way you have caught the flaps retracting in these shots.