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Spent the weekend at the LAA Rally at Sywell (pictures to come on CA) To get there and back we flew over or near the local bases (well 2 bases and an ex-base).

Fairford on Friday evening:



Lyneham



And up close and personal with Fairford on the way back....many thanks to the Brize radar controller who routed us through the overhead at 800ft (only just resisted the temptation to make a low pass down the runway!)







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Mick, the first one is Fairford!

Neil

The top one isn't fairford, where are the taxiways!

Whoops! Uploaded the wrong photo There we go, no-one will ever know

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oaf wrote:The first one is fairford is`nt it??? look at the b-2 tent on the right and the hangars on the left

It certainly is Fairford.

Cheers

Eccie

Goldstar31 wrote:

oaf wrote:The first one is fairford is`nt it??? look at the b-2 tent on the right and the hangars on the left

It certainly is Fairford.

Cheers

Eccie

I'll take your word for it, it just looks different, (can't see the taxiways). Unless it's a trick of the light, weather, camera angle etc.

First one is 100% Fairford. Can see the base hangars, taxi-ways, B2 blister hangar, hardstands, tower.... not to mention Rhymes Barn, the reservoirs on the north side etc. Pretty easy to pick all the features out.
North side taxi-way can clearly be seen, starting further up the runway as it does....

Love the third shot, nice and clear and a very unique view of Fairford!