With the recent news announcement that RAF Lakenheath’s 492nd and 494th Fighter Squadrons would be grounded until the end of September as a result of sequestration in the United States, putting out a blog of images from three visits in late 2012 and early 2013 seems to have taken on greater significance than it did previously.
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Having missed much of the Asian scheduled stuff on Wednesday, I was particularly keen to get as many of the arrivals early the next morning as I could. What I’d not bargained on was that a) it wouldn’t be light until after 0700 and b) the sky was completely overcast.
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Over a four-week period towards the end of 2012, I had cause to spend no fewer than four days at RAF Coningsby! The first three of those were all spent outside the wire, while the last was a visit to meet the 2013 Royal Air Force Typhoon Display Pilot, Flt Lt Jamie Norris. This blog will cover all of those days in one single entry.
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Back in February 2012, I travelled to Amsterdam with a view to shooting some of KLM’s heavier aircraft, particularly the company’s passenger MD-11s. My companions on that occasion were John and Marcus Jellyman, and conditions were truly abysmal, with extremely poor visibility over the two days that we were there.
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The London 2012 Olympics seem to have been universally recognised as being among the best – if not THE best – Games ever. As well as putting the ‘Great’ back into the psyche of the nation, for the aviation enthusiast, the opportunities to see a number of rare types and new nationalities of aircraft were plentiful too, particularly in the run up to the 27 July opening ceremony.
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