Friday arrivals North Island USN Centennial

[PeteFenwick]

Thanks for the kind comments on my thursday arrivals.
Friday arrivals posted below with a few pics from the saturday Centennial Parade. Hope they are enjoyable and here's hoping for a good summer in UK.

Two A4 Skyhawks, a single seater and 2 seater. The planned A4 in the parade didn't appear because of a tech problem so the friday arrival was fortunate.




T45 Goshawk in a Centennial paint scheme


C12 in a Centennial paint scheme


2 F-18F Super Hornets from VX9 the Vampires with painted tails




Digicam F18 which was flying all day friday


2 Civilian owned jet warbirds, the sole flying FJ-4 Fury and a Rockwell T2 Buckeye




Two NASA jets, a F18 and a T38




A Navy F5 Tiger II


EF-18 Growler painted in Centennial colour scheme (thursday arrival but I love this a/c and paint scheme)


A few from the saturday
EA 6 Prowler leading 2 EA 18 Prowlers


E2 Hawkeye with paint job


One rarely sees the big jets in a flypast hence the rarity of an E6 mercury and a C9 Skytrain II




The latest AH-1 Zulu Super Cobra


4 ship, 2 AH-1W Super Cobras and 2 Iroquois


4 Navy F5 Tiger II's


A sad day when one has to go to USA to see the British designed harriers-4 ship AV8's


CH46 Sea Knight dropping a rescue swimmer


The downtown San Diego skyline with 4 ship helicopters inbound on the parade. Hope you enjoyed.

[st24]

Oh lordy, it gets worse (better!) What an event this was. Nice to see the flybys bending round for top side "review" passes; why have the Yanks got this sorted so effortlessly??
Have you got any of the 2 USMC KC-130s as one looked as though it had a special painted fin??

[DeanW]

The UH-1 and Cobra formations are pretty epic. Nice stuff all round though!

[Ian A.S.]

What a great set of arrival shots and so many topsides - your brief notes on identities also appreciated Pete - thanks for sharing

Cheers

Ian A.S.

[CH2]

Wow.....quite simply blows most of what we have out of the water in one fell swoop. Fancy a Sea Vixen?

I would be happy just to see some blue sky.

I 'am off to sit outside the engine pen at Cottesmore, or is photograph Islanders at Waddo

Thanks for posting

[JohnF]

Stunning set again. Agree about the 4 ship shot and that AH-1Z sure looks the business!

[Lumix]

Superb! Must have been one hell of a show!

[AndyBeau]

Amazing! I would have loved to have been there. Another lovely set of images.

[IanOlder]

This is all starting to make me feel a bit queasy, the more I see from here the more I regret not going. Another fine set Pete, the Hornet's look stunning as do the Marine helo's, we can only dream of seeing that sort of line up here. I think you've peaked early for 2011, the rest of the year's never going to match up to this.

[Mike]

Another very nice set there Pete. A shame the A-4 had a problem on Saturday, I managed to miss catching that one altogether. They also lost the SNB (Twin Beech) and Coastguard HU-25 (Falcon) from the flypasts due to tech issues.

A Navy F5 Tiger II

"It's a MiG-28. Nobody's been this close before"

[rjlaker]

Some great shots there, cracking topsides - lovely variety, and superb weather too...

[B2 Spirit]

very nice top sides - as you say - rarely seen!