After landing at Edinburgh we started with RAF Kirknewton, an Air Cadets base where Viking T.1's were flying like crazy...
(no bombs or burners, but still military!
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a very relaxed atmosphere, and this blossomming yellow stuff everywhere! (brem??)
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They used six cables, so many starts, meaning many good photo opportunities...
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One of five flying Grob G.103's having a kip in the grass....
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In the civil hangar, the owner of this Chippie was waiting for a short spell of rain to die out...
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Next stop was the Museum in East Fortune. The infamous "Rio de Janeiro Vulcan"is preserved there... (for the younger viewers, in the 1982 Falklands War, this aircraft had to divert to (officially neutral at that time) Rio de Janeiro during a "Black Buck" bombing mission). Read the outstanding book "Vulcan 607" if you want to know more about it...
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Another classic on show here is this Comet.
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A very recent addition is Jaguar XZ119, resprayed to its Gulf War colours...
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Monday saw the real military jet-action, we went to Lossie. Thanx to the Scramble "where to go" map and the very friendly Scottish spotters (thanks guys!) we got to all the great places around this superbase. Four Squadrons of Tonka's,-though we didn't see a single 14 Sqn a/c-, and loads of visitors!
All pics were taken from outside the base, almost felt like the gool'ole days of wild spotting.....
Tornado ZA410 with practice bombs under the fuselage going full-burner...
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There were quite a few Typhoons, they were doing some live-bombing and other ground attack judging by the designator pods they carried... This one is from 17 Sqn.
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and afaik the sole dual-seater of 3 Sqn performing an overshoot...
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Later the wind changed, but the other side of the runway offers good possibilities as well, though be aware, the farmer -and rightly so- is not too keen on people entering his land and destroying his crops... A pity, but please respect it in order not to get the local spotters in trouble!
After live 1000 pounders, Tiffy ZJ933 now carries a Paveway bomb!
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In the afternoon, when the sun crosses the runway it doens't take long to get to the other side in order to get pics like these...
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Day two saw us go to nearby Kinloss. This base is not too long away from Lossie, in fact it's easy to spot what's in the circuit on the other base... As a first teaser an impression of what the Kinloss approach looks like...
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For excercise Joint Warrior, there were no less than six Falcon 20's present. Some with FRA titles, some with Cobham titles...
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This US Navy P-3 left for a "Joint Warrior" mission I assume, it taxied quite slowly, allowing some prop-blur experiments
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more to follow soon...