EGDR wrote:There are very good photographic reasons why you might want to do this

Because they've spaffed all their dosh on the biggest willy-extension lens they could find so had none left to get a wide-angle one as well ( or they've got the supplied kit lens but couldn't be bothered to bring it ) ?

So's Kempsford campsite

If you haven't booked yet, you're too late.....just checked their website and it's now showing

Due to a high level of interest we are now fully booked for 2023

Giving how active they've been recently.....balloons....and the U(C)AVs....and a return of the much-missed Scan Eagle Role Demo....

As per one of my previous posts ( should be top of the previous page ) there's been a Ukrainian one frequently operating between Spain/Portugal(?) and Birmingham Airport for a while, so wonder if it was that one? Edited at 20:20hrs to add.... Yep, same one : Vulkan Air, Regn. UR-CQV ( operating as f...

Meh!! .... if only because it's the NH90s again - would have preferred Tigers instead ( think they still use them, don't they? ) Notice on today's E-Mail update that it's going to be a 7 hour display period this year, down from the 8 ( or was it 8 1/2 ? ) it was last year. As last year was QEII's P...

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/norad- ... -shot-down

Should get the conspiracy nuts going

Ignorant people who walk in front of me when I'm standing 20 yards back from a plane trying to take photos! :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye: :grinning: Actually I don't have a problem with waiting a few seconds if someone's standing back taking a photo.....but if they take more than about 10 seconds I...

Not that I do FRIAT, but presumably all of you who've already booked have been sorted out? If you're not aware, today's E-Mail from DBH ( "The perfect Valentine's Day gift" ) includes FRIAT tickets.....and it would appear that the majority of 'Standard' & 'Standard Plus' tickets are st...

Go on....as nobody else has stuck their head above the parapet....I can't be the only one who hasn't a clue who or what BHHH is/are.
( Presumably nothing to do with the groups who do trail-running, where HHH stands for Hash House Harriers )

The big difference being that Sweden's not ( yet ) a Member of NATO, which is Biden's main area of concern. Putin's repeatedly played the 'NATO picking on Russia' card, which he can't really do with regards Sweden - not that it stops him trying - so Biden's got the "Nothing to do with us" ...

Iraq are apparently looking to speed up their binning of Russian-built helicopters ( primarily Mi-17s ) due to lack of spare parts availability, so there's a possibility some of them could find their way to Ukraine. Biden's already nixed supplying F-16s from the US as he classes it as too great an e...

Easy enough to train a tank if something goes wrong not much damage Not quite. Simplest difference is that Soviet Era & modern Russian MBTs are 3-man crews with auto-loaders ( which is why they go up like a Ronson when hit - unprotected central ammo storage ) whereas Western MBTs are 4-man crew...

You've got concerts by Beyoncé, Tom Jones & Michael Buble coming up in Cardiff this year. Cheapest seats were from about £50 upwards, although these are already being re-sold on the likes of Ticketline for upwards of £150 ( and the more expensive Beyoncé ones are north of £2500 !! ) Accommodatio...

100 jets & 300 MBTs will make big a difference, as will more SPGs & MLRS. The problem was finding someone who'd sell them to Ukraine.....nobody wanted to sell anything to them directly, as the various Countries were classing that as an escalation, hence why they turned to the good old 'donat...

That'll impress the neighbours! Last time I was down that way was when the Ramsgate-Oostende ferry service was still running, but how much has the area changed since then? There were a lot of houses within about 100 yards of the end on the runway over-run on the Southern side, so I presume there are...

Elwood was Army ( RGJ ), as was Wallace ( Scots Guards ) so at least that puts them ahead of a lot of the previous MPs in defence-related roles. Much - if not all - of the current issues can be laid squarely at the door of the previous CDS, Nick Carter. ( Do a Google to see what wonderful ideas he c...

Peace talks? Zelensky has already said he's prepared to participate in them.....the precursors being: Russia out of all Ukr. territory, including the regions illegally annexed/occupied in 2014 ( when the Rus. copied Nazi tactics to justify their actions ) and Crimea ( which the Rus. were only leasin...

Early hours of this morning... Two flights of USAF KC135s transiting up through Cornwall, passing 2 more flights heading the other way ( the 2 outbound ones went Oceanic ) E6 heading into Mildenhall. No idea how common it is, but for the past few days there's been an RAF Voyager showing as up out of...

In the good ol' days of yore, the programme would advertise the theme at the next IAT, so two years in advance. :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye: Yeah, but you didn't really need themes back then.....you just knew that the fighter lineup was going to be S.E.5as, Camels & DH.2s, with overseas contr...

They presumably won't be playing an updated version of the old game of "How quickly can I get the Air Cadet to puke?" ( It can't have just been a St Athan thing! )

Well, there were a lot less JPs & SMs produced than Spitfires, and there are a lot less UK-based airworthy ones....not to mention the fact that the JP/SMs are real ones, as opposed to being new-build 'dataplate' replicas or single-seaters which have been butchered to make them 2-seaters. :stuck_...

I can think of one forum member who's probably already smashed open his piggy-bank & started counting the pennies!

Happy to be corrected, but I think the latest was around March.
Conversely, I think the earliest was around October/November ( can't remember if that includes the years where the themes would have been obvious - Navy 100, RAF 100, BoB 75, etc. )