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We had a few nice visitors at the end of last week, C-130s from RDAF & RSAF plus the Army Air Corp's newest Defender, ZH005. I caught the Dane & the Defender on the ground in the evening light on Thursday evening whilst returning home from RAF Cosford & RAF Shawbury. http://www.igniter.org.uk/avpics...

There are currently both Martin-Baker meteors (WA638 & WL419) at Cranwell ahead of this weekends celebration of the 70th anniversary of the first flight of a British jet aircraft there on May 15th 1941. The anniversary will be marked by a private reception at the RAF College for former colleagues of...

There's some confusion over how long they're here for, I've been told 2 weeks, 4 weeks & 6 weeks, but haven't heard anything official on the subject yet!

G.

We drew a blank on Sunday 27th, with only 2 Ospreys ground-running, so we went back on Tuesday 29th after hearing that only one had ground-run on the Monday. We were hoping for some Osprey flying as most of us hadn't seen a USAF osprey airborne before. It was a long day waiting, and by mid-afternoon...

Hi, Very small update. Callsigns of the RAF Typhoons were RRR9611-9619 Oscar Just for the record: did they fly under Ascot (RRR) or Rafair (RFR) callsign? Richard, they used ASCOT callsigns. Info is firsthand, source: my scanner at the crashgate as they taxied and departed. Correction to Oscar's po...

I'd have thought that the 'missing' round was probably offloaded before departure maybe due to a fault? I wouldn't have thought that the RAF was short of ASRAAMs, especially as the F3 used to carry them too. With regard to carrying them on a transit flight, having the aircraft arrive already armed c...

Ohhhh, that last shot! Fantastic set of pics!

And today was the first time Typhoons have deployed on operations. Pity the sun didn't hang around until they moved, but an interesting set nonetheless. Here they are in departure order as they cleared the last-chance pin removal. http://www.igniter.org.uk/avpics/bmpics/9611.jpg http://www.igniter.o...

Movements I've seen / heard this week so far: Tuesday 25th Alphajets E107 705-UD - FAF6441 E75 705-AE - FAF6440 E90 705-TH - FAF6442 ZZ416 returned as WIDGET01, displaying RRR7441 on SBS 1 x Chinook c/s SHF406 in the evening Wednesday 26th ???? - Hawk -JAVELIN31 ZJ691 - Sentinel - SNOOPER01 ZZ416 - ...

Hi all, my first post on here in a while. I haven't photographed much worth showing you all until yesterday. On the way home from the Dominie retirement at Cranwell I saw XV249 in the circuit at Waddington. It has special markings applied to celebrate the end of the Nimrod R1 in RAF service. The typ...

Today 6sqn rolled out their first 3 Typhoons in full markings. Since the squadron formed, they have been flying with only code letters on the tail of the jets. Today, they got a little more colourful. I went across early this morning and caught the first fully-marked jet being towed out to the line ...

James, just to correct you, ZZ419 didn't go back to Hawarden, it departed overseas as RRR7075 IIRC.

AN-124 arr 1533 today UR-82009, parked on what was Bravo / lazy Bravo dispersal.

Also currently outside on what was Charlie dispersal is ZZ417.

07/10
9K-AHI dep approx 1610

09/10

ZK457 in & out twice today, another nice sight and another off the list of 'frames to shoot
201/36-CA in & out too.

foxyee wrote:Nice piccie Graham....but isnt this what you would class as teetering on the "Dark Side"

Martin

Yes, and I blame you for it

BTW, it departed as Kuwaiti060 (KAC060) 1610L today, 7/Oct/09

G.