Specialist Competition : March 2012 - Gate Guardians

[iaint]

Afghan MiG-21 sat outside Kandahar Airfield. Taken in 2009 with a Pentax point and shoot (I wasn't going to take my DSLR with me!)


Kandahar Gate Guard by iainthomson84, on Flickr


Iain

[^^Gord^^]

Sea Harrier FA2 outside the Naval Strike Wing hangar at RAF Cottesmore in 2007...

[JTM]

Hunter F58 J-4100 @ Sion

[JP17]

Mil-24D 156 marked as 007 at Inowroclaw Barracks, Poland, April 2009.

[JONLITE06]

RAF Binbrook.

[owensy]

CFB Trenton 1989 CAF Sabre - scanned from a 35mm photograph

scan0006 by paulowen248, on Flickr

[lynothehammer]

RAF Odiham 2012

[urkles]

Outside Takhli AB in Thailand is this Sabre;


F-86F Sabre Kh17-38/04 4342/5079 Takhli AB by urkyurky, on Flickr

[reheat module]

29(R) Sqn Guard

[MikeH]

Eggebeck - Starfighter+Seahawk combo:

[TonyO]

Payerne AB, Switzerland...

[BMrider]

C47 Dakota Gate Guardian at the Melville Battery Museum, Normandy, France.





Douglas Dakota C47 by BMrider2012, on Flickr

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[sunshine band]

The mighty XM607 at Waddington.



SB

[b0nd08]

tomcat gate guard by b0nd088, on Flickr

[swingy]

North Island


DSC_9338fc by Swingy2, on Flickr

[JAWS]

Owatonna Degner Regional Airport , Owatonna , Minnesota 6th February 2010

T-38's : #1 61-0828 , #2 60-0573 , #3 60-0589

[TheMightyOz]

I might as well chuck Halton's Hunter into the mix:

[Spookman]

This G91 isone of several gate guards that are dotted around Laage Air Force base Germany (July 2011)

[SamP]

The results for this months Specialist Competition are in, and the results are as follows:

1st Place - Zymurgy661



2nd Place - MarkS



3rd Place - JTM



Thanks for your entries this month!