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LFA7 31st August and 1st September 2011

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LFA7 31st August and 1st September 2011

Post by Ben Montgomery » Fri Sep 02, 2011 10:06 am

In the hills for the last two days, and missed a few IDs, both through the loop and OTT. Can anyone help with:

31st:

shadow R1 calling WIDGET01
Sea King HAR3 looked like ZE368, but we have this as a Falklands aircraft?
Boscombe Tornado F3 through the loop about 3:45pm
Hawk just before the F3, two passes.

1st September

Typhoon T3 aborted the loop AM, was a 11 squadron airframe
Typhoon T3 through the loop PM, was a 3 squadron airframe


Many thanks,

Ben

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Re: LFA7 31st August and 1st September 2011

Post by Mictheslik » Fri Sep 02, 2011 10:28 am

Reported on Fox2:

Boscombe F3 was ZH552/HW

Hawk before was XX194

PM Typhoon was ZJ802

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Re: LFA7 31st August and 1st September 2011

Post by BP2324 » Fri Sep 02, 2011 10:47 am

Ben,

Shadow R1 calling Widget 01 landed and departed Coningsby on the 31st was ZZ418

see viewtopic.php?f=16&t=40592" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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Re: LFA7 31st August and 1st September 2011

Post by Ben Montgomery » Sat Sep 03, 2011 8:04 pm

Much obliged guys!

Just checked my Sea King shot on my desktop screen, and it definitely looks like ZE368, so I guess it must be back from the Falklands?

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Re: LFA7 31st August and 1st September 2011

Post by steve149c » Mon Sep 05, 2011 1:27 pm

Hi Ben,

ZE368 - yes I think I saw that at Valley last week, will have to check though. Airframes don't spend much time down there - you would be suprised how much they rotate them about, even in the UK. I think valley has had about 18 or 19 in the last 2 years.

Update: Checked the very useful BMAL website and it is based at valley, last reported seen on the 1st September 2011.

Cheers

Steve
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Canon 7D2, 100-400mm IS L lense, Icom R6 and alot of luck!

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