Big Eric wrote: ↑

Tue 29 Sep 2020, 6:14 pm

Just F-15s heading back home.

Thanks, Eric. Would have been good to see.

Four trails over Edinburgh just now. Anyone track what they were? About 6.15pm tonight I first saw the contrails. Think heading south-east.

Norman, I don't know if you do Facebook but ion you do, go along to www.facebook.com/WaltonRNLI We had a shout Friday to a homebuilt 70 ft catamaran that had lost its anchor in the winds. All the pictures you'll see are of the same river (looking very different) the number of workboats we needed to...

One thing's for sure there are very few false positive deaths. So the death rate across the world has been a consistent 1 / 33 of cases although we know cases cold be far higher than 33 million. Extrapolating that to 7 billion inhabitants in the world is over 200 million deaths. Given the uncertain...

Jings! As they say. I think that's the brains in pic 4? Do BBC Wildlife take pictures?

They look pretty decent to me, especially the last two. Cheers Norman, have to admit XV574 was my favourite scheme post camo RAF Phantom, only saw her at IAT 1989 and as she arrived we had a B-52 parked in front of us hence the 3/4 front landing shot. Loved that scheme. For some reason lost to the ...

They look pretty decent to me, especially the last two.

Now we know why POTUS Trump wanted to keep his tax records out of the public eye. Ouch.

Skyflash wrote: ↑

Sun 27 Sep 2020, 7:08 pm

Wonderful! That first shot with the heron is superb.

Cheers! Went to see geese and 'bagged' some herons.

There were a couple of egrets but they were way up the river end.

Thanks for posting that. Very interesting to see the difference. I imagine a few boats have come a cropper misjudging the depth.

From a visit to Gatwick in 1984. British Caledonian DC-10 (my favourite scheme they flew in, though not done justice being scanned from a 5x3.5 print!) https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50393721296_15393c425b_h.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50393721576_4ae3a94683_h.jpg Bit more recent. K...

As we eagerly await the next comp, and with the raspberry ripple closed, I hope no one minds if I post a couple of images I had scanned but not included (due to the rule of 3) in case they were of interest. Wessex at Greenham 1983 https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50379631818_d646dfd6d1_b.jpg Jagu...

Around this time of year it's traditional to head out to the relatively local nature reserve at Aberlady to see the migrating geese. As a bonus last week we got treated to a superb sunset. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50378292946_b668326861_h.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/5037813600...

That is a decent set and no mistake. The first five in particular are excellent. Good of the horses to line up in pic 4!

Very interesting. Do you have a Walton at high-tide, as a comparison?

Am still to finish Away, which is seemingly about the first crewed mission to Mars but it's a bit like a family drama. Having said that I do want to find out what happens!

At least I know why Manchester is struggling to lower the infection rate Up to 1,700 students will isolate for 14 days after 99 at Manchester Metropolitan University tested positive for Covid-19. Full article here https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-54289648 Edit to add, the son has ju...

Managed to get away for a week in July there when cases were at a very low and sustained level. Now a weekend away has been cancelled due to the new restrictions.

I do wonder if a three-week severe lockdown right now would be a better option than this creeping onwards way of 'managing' cases.

Perhaps the biggest seen in the 'raspberry ripple' scheme, BAC-111, at Greenham Common 1983. its up there Norman, the Comet 4 from Farnborough is the holder of the record though. Loved the Jaguar ACT, shame it wasn't 10 years later, I may have got something half decent myself of it then. Great to s...

Seeing the quality on show have gone for subjects of possible historical interest. The fly-by-wire Jaguar at Farnborough, 1984. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50380333326_2dc4c7bc39_b.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50380512747_e31958eb87_b.jpg Perhaps the biggest seen in the 'raspberry...

CJS wrote: ↑

Thu 24 Sep 2020, 6:33 am

Can I just say how much I bloody love this thread?!

Yes I think so. You never know where you're going next, or in what year.

Great memories, I went one of there shows back in the 90s long coach trip but well worth it - great light for photography also. There was always something of interest, plus the RAF had a range of types to display then, and being later in the year gave that great light at times. When you could see i...

I was at that show. Memory fades after 28 years but I seem to recall a Russian airforce IL72 in the static as well? You're maybe thinking of the previous year? An Il-76 was in supporting the Russian Knights. They departed on the Saturday afternoon in a shockingly bad rain storm, so much so that my ...

Binged the four-part documentary on the Challenger accident on Netflix. Very good, focuses on the people involved rather than just o-rings. Still quite shocking some of it.