Big Cat you say...

Sure here goes.. Not sure any of those above look like a Cat though?

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Never knew the Fencer went to Leuchars - Did it fly?
I remember it at Farnborough and the Backfire displaying - the take off from the Backfire vibrated parts of my body I didn't know I had - makes a B-1 or Vulcan take off seem tame peaceful events

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On a Bombers Moon https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49180344948_135c615727_h.jpg Bombers Moon by Andy Heap , on Flickr https://live.staticflickr.com/792/26463501137_9fde6a05ba_h.jpg 357a by Andy Heap , on Flickr https://live.staticflickr.com/867/39525948000_17bc980804_h.jpg 358 by Andy Heap , on F...

Low level Herc - Top fun being pax! https://live.staticflickr.com/796/41308567812_0e3219b3af_o.jpg C-130 low level Herc by Andy Heap , on Flickr This is a "selfie' - not a type of shot I usually take! It is a still from a video I made for my local gliding club. Far far harder to do than I imagined -...

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And I love the sound of Hueys in the Morning!

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Loop in 2006

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Nice one Derek - ta

As an aside - If anyone is visiting France and speaks English as a native language try this - let slip into the conversation you are from New Zealand (Australia or Canada might work to?) and you might find the locals can (almost) smile and sometimes say a little more than non monsieur! Ok this first...

Hello Everyone.

I want to order some plastic kits for my father who is old and still in lockdown.

Can anyone recommend online suppliers who also courier kits.

Much ta in improving his morale!

Spiny Norman wrote: ↑

Wed 10 Jun 2020, 7:52 pm

New Zealand might the only place worth going.

No offence but why on earth would we want tourism from a COVID hotspot like the UK?

We are desperate to keep our borders shut!

Hard one this. Lots could/should have won it – too many to name. But I’ve worked it down to a top 3. And changed my mind with the order numerous times! 3rd) Peter R with the colourful 105 – Bloody Lovely and skilled shot being so sharp.! 2nd) Jalfrezi with the Lanc – that (and Peter’s Low Level Herc...

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OK lets try this one with close up images of aircraft moving (on the ground or in the air) Feel free to throw up two or three images if you like. lets get close up - so the aircraft more than fill the viewfinder, the sound totally envelopes you and you smell it afterwards ! (unless it's a glider) ht...

Thanks Peter - Nice one.

Yes I too really liked the full Disc osprey - Wow!

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Great topic. New Zealand Navy (but operated by 6 Sqn RNZAF) SH-2G(NZ) Seasprites https://live.staticflickr.com/822/41306619801_f5189fd1ff_h.jpg IMG_2399-01 by Andy Heap , on Flickr or slower still... https://live.staticflickr.com/808/40411175245_a305cf5d9e_h.jpg IMG_2581-01 by Andy Heap , on Flickr

a crackling Avon in the evening sky - who could ask for more?

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Nothing else to hand. You just have to look a bit closer...…… https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48479134282_641d2e958c_h.jpg 20 by Paul Downes , on Flickr Not sure WW1 counts Paul!! But Ironic timing - Today I have been to Peter Jackson's WW1 museum - it's superb if you come to NZ. I took this of...

And for something a little different - Bücker Bü 133 Jungmeister WW2 Luftwaffe advanced trainer. This Airframe is actually Ex- Swiss Air Force - was (and maybe still is?) based at Wycombe https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49966144011_3b3b6899c5_h.jpg Bücker Bü 133 Jungmeister by Andy Heap , on Fli...

Last of the RNZAF Huey's (Literally) flies off into the sunset - (Tears) https://live.staticflickr.com/786/39516739530_97cfed2d2a_h.jpg 435 by Andy Heap , on Flickr And one of the most advanced shapes ever to grace the skies - lighting effects by RR Avon! https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48842680...

AndyXH558 wrote: ↑

Fri 05 Jun 2020, 8:02 am

There was the qra scramble at Finningley in 1981. that really made the earth shake.

Certainly did - do you remember the 100s of Rabbits that came out of the ground and ran for it!

Sometime in the early 1970's - sat on the North York Moors, I was about 6 or 7. We'd stopped for a picnic in a layby when 3 Vulcans screamed overhead, very low and very loud. Hooked! makes perfect sense - the RAF used to have low level routes at the time. One ran down from the Leeming gap - North Y...

Might be a different form of water trail.... and probably ineligible! but this is Catalina after a water take off https://live.staticflickr.com/814/40409090815_ca6c01ecc2_h.jpg IMG_5838 by Andy Heap , on Flickr This is what it looked like a minute before... https://live.staticflickr.com/886/40409101...