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[Stoo]

Anyone see the Aircraft formation for Queenie's birthday bash in London?

Nope?

I did.. Mainly because they were forming up over my house!

So, out came the trusty camera for some piccies for you guys, conditions were frankly, crap, with low cloud and a lot of mist making much

photoshoppery an absolute must..

The UV filter made pretty much no difference at all..

Anyway, on with the pics!



Some sort of military transport?


Private jet?


Looks like it..


AWACS from below..


AWACS from below with no photoshoppery - Hazy much?


Valient! pt1


Valient! pt2


Feed Me!


No idea what this is..


AWACS has found some friends..


So has the big thingy..


Tornados sorting out the formation


Private jet thing has found a couple of Eurofighters and a couple of Harriers


Nimrod and friends


AWACS and friends


Hey, wait for me!


I think we lost him...


There we go.. Red Arrows, Shmed Arrows..

Rough commentary:

It all kicked off about 10am here with the Passenger jet thingy and military transport turning up about 20 minutes apart.
They then appeared to do circuits to the north of here, reappearing in the south every 15 minutes, in a holding pattern waiting for the others to

arrive.

AWACS appeared, then the Nimrod, and all four just circled over in the 15 minute pattern, tightening up the formation.

By now it about about noon, and the Tornados arrived in a rough group, and when the other four arrived thay had a few friends with them.
In another couple of circuits the formation was pretty much there, with the Tornados in their very neat and rather tight diamond formation.
By now it was about 12:40, so it was off to London with them in a quick sprint down the coast for the 1pm fly past, where the Red Arrows and a few

others had obviously met up along the way..


Thoughts: *need* a UV filter that works, and a longer lens than the 300mm IS USM would have been nice..

[Stoo]

oh joy.. looks like my web host just decided to make everything case sensitive... *snarl*

[shiato storm]

1) c130 I think, american made transport plane
2 + 3) tristar, lockheed L1011
4 + 5) AWACS
6, 7, 8) birds!
9) VC 10 (noisey!!, probably took off from around oxford)
10) awacs friends are tornados
11) jags
12) look like harriers...could be tornados though, pics too small to tell
18) tornados...

nice little airshow then!

[Stoo]

hehe thanks shiato

I'm a bit gutted about the amount of mist, and the fact that the uv filter did absolutely sweet fanny adams..

Oh yes.. the birds.. I got a bit bored waiting for the next circuit

[mart_haj86]

#1 C17 Globemaster
#2#3 Tri-Star
#4#5 AWACS
#6#7#8 birds
#9 VC10
#10 AWACS, tornados and 1x BAE Hawk
#11 VC10, Jaguars
#12 as described, tornados
#13 VC10 2 x Eurofighter Typhoons 2 x Harriers.
#14 Nimrod, Tornados
#15 AWACS, Tornados
#16 VC10s and Jaguars
#17 same as above.
#18 tornados,

i think im correct on all of them its been a longtime since i went to an airshow

[noah]

great pics stoo, the awacs and friends are my favorite of the bunch.

[YorkieBen]

#1 C17 Globemaster
#2#3 Tri-Star
#4#5 AWACS
#6#7#8 birds
#9 VC10
#10 AWACS, tornados and 1x BAE Hawk
#11 VC10, Jaguars
#12 as described, tornados
#13 VC10 2 x Eurofighter Typhoons 2 x Harriers.
#14 Nimrod, Tornados
#15 AWACS, Tornados
#16 VC10s and Jaguars
#17 same as above.
#18 tornados,

i think im correct on all of them its been a longtime since i went to an airshow

yep you are correct afaik

I didnt see the flypast at all on tv or anything, was out all day

dont suppose it is on youtube or anything (at work so cant check)

[Stoo]

Oh yes, so they are (the Eurofighters) didn't spot the canards on the smaller pictures..

[Stoo]

great pics stoo, the awacs and friends are my favorite of the bunch.

Yeah, I quite like that one too, kinda reminds me of the old eric schwartz Aerotoons animations

Edit: speaking of which.. http://www.randelshofer.ch/animation...chwartzVE.html