Aviation- On This Day

Post by **Seamus** » Sun 25 Oct 2020, 7:37 pm

2018, Navy Wings Nightshoot

British Aerospace Sea Harrier FA2 ZH801 Royal Navy RNAS Yeovilton 25/10/18 by Shaun Schofield, on Flickr

AgustaWestland Merlin HC4 ZJ131/P Royal Navy RNAS Yeovilton 25/10/18 by Shaun Schofield, on Flickr

Westland Wasp HAS1 XT420/G-CBUI RNAS Yeovilton 25/10/18 by Shaun Schofield, on Flickr

AgustaWestland Merlin HC4 ZJ131/P Royal Navy RNAS Yeovilton 25/10/18 by Shaun Schofield, on Flickr

Hawker Sea Fury FB11 VR930 Royal Navy Historic Flight RNAS Yeovilton 25/10/18 by Shaun Schofield, on Flickr

Post by **CJS** » Sun 25 Oct 2020, 9:25 pm

Loving these as usual. The pics from the American tour are particularly cool. Tony (or anyone else) can you explain why all the aircraft in the boneyard and at the museums have the glass removed from the cockpits? Is it to stop anyone easily getting in to the cool stuff inside? To just prevent them from breaking eventually? Or some other reason?

Post by **AndyXH558** » Sun 25 Oct 2020, 9:43 pm

No the glass is still there, they just paint protective film over them so they don't get affected by the sunlight

Post by **CJS** » Sun 25 Oct 2020, 10:15 pm

AndyXH558 wrote: ↑
Sun 25 Oct 2020, 9:43 pm
No the glass is still there, they just paint protective film over them so they don't get affected by the sunlight

cheers Andy

Post by **jalfrezi** » Mon 26 Oct 2020, 9:35 am

A quick dash around the Fleet Air Arm Museum in 2017......

De Havilland Sea Venom FAW21 - 03 by Nick Jennings, on Flickr

Vickers Supermarine Attacker F1 - 02 by Nick Jennings, on Flickr

Vickers Supermarine Scimitar F1 - 01 by Nick Jennings, on Flickr

....followed by a Navy Wings night shoot.

McDonnell Douglas F-4K Phantom FG1 - 13 by Nick Jennings, on Flickr

De Havilland Sea Vixen D3 - 7 by Nick Jennings, on Flickr

De Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk T10 - 2 by Nick Jennings, on Flickr

Post by **buccs2b** » Mon 26 Oct 2020, 10:19 am

Tour Day 8: Our final day of the tour. Today it was TRavis AFB Open House, again bright and sunny but with a strong wind. We decided to do the base museum and static then head off to the Sacramento Museum at McClellan ALC

199610_Travis_0034 by Tony Adams, on Flickr

199610_Travis_0036 by Tony Adams, on Flickr

199610_KC10A_Travis by Tony Adams, on Flickr

TA_18_2 by Tony Adams, on Flickr

Travis_0021 by Tony Adams, on Flickr

Travis_0022 by Tony Adams, on Flickr

Travis_0024 by Tony Adams, on Flickr

Travis_0025 by Tony Adams, on Flickr

Travis_0026 by Tony Adams, on Flickr

199610_Travis_0027 by Tony Adams, on Flickr

199610_Travis_0028 by Tony Adams, on Flickr

199610_Travis_0029 by Tony Adams, on Flickr

199610_Travis_0030 by Tony Adams, on Flickr

Then it was off to Sacramento

199610_FB111A_Sacramento by Tony Adams, on Flickr

Sacramento9610 by Tony Adams, on Flickr

199610_Sacramento_0001 by Tony Adams, on Flickr

199610_Sacramento_0002 by Tony Adams, on Flickr

199610_Sacramento_0005 by Tony Adams, on Flickr

199610_Sacramento_0007 by Tony Adams, on Flickr

199610_Sacramento_0008 by Tony Adams, on Flickr

199610_Sacramento_0010 by Tony Adams, on Flickr

199610_Sacramento_0012 by Tony Adams, on Flickr

199610_Sacramento_0013 by Tony Adams, on Flickr

199610_Sacramento_0014 by Tony Adams, on Flickr

199610_Sacramento_0015 by Tony Adams, on Flickr

And finally

199610_Sacramento_0018 by Tony Adams, on Flickr

That about wraps it up for the tour, hope you've found the snapshot interesting

Post by **SuffolkBlue** » Mon 26 Oct 2020, 11:47 am

I paid my first visit to the Stow Maries Great War Aerodrome on this day last year.

Stow Maries Great War Aerodrome - Stow Maries, Essex, Saturday 26th October 2019s Great War Aerodrome,Stow Maries, Essex, Saturday 26th October 2019 by Chris Day, on Flickr

Stow Maries Great War Aerodrome - Stow Maries, Essex, Saturday 26th October 2019 by Chris Day, on Flickr

Post by **shorsley** » Mon 26 Oct 2020, 12:09 pm

2016 and Jaguars at Cosford:

Cosford_8 by Sarah Horsley, on Flickr

Cosford_17 by Sarah Horsley, on Flickr

The 'accident' which most people seem to prefer:

Cosford_35 by Sarah Horsley, on Flickr

The static shot which Aviation people seem to prefer:

Cosford_36 by Sarah Horsley, on Flickr

Cosford_46 by Sarah Horsley, on Flickr

2017 and like Nick I was also dashing around the Fleet Air Arm Museum:

FAA_12 by Sarah Horsley, on Flickr

FAA_13 by Sarah Horsley, on Flickr

Trying something different:

FAA_15 by Sarah Horsley, on Flickr

The only interaction that manages to make Concorde look ugly:

FAA_33 by Sarah Horsley, on Flickr

FAA_35 by Sarah Horsley, on Flickr

And then onto the Navy Wings Nightshoot:

NavyWingsI_12 by Sarah Horsley, on Flickr

NavyWingsI_13 by Sarah Horsley, on Flickr

NavyWingsI_23 by Sarah Horsley, on Flickr

NavyWingsI_31 by Sarah Horsley, on Flickr

NavyWingsI_35 by Sarah Horsley, on Flickr

Post by **jalfrezi** » Mon 26 Oct 2020, 12:48 pm

Thanks Sarah, I forgot about the Jaguar shoot in 2016!

SEPECAT Jaguar GR1 - 25 by Nick Jennings, on Flickr

SEPECAT Jaguar GR3A - 38 by Nick Jennings, on Flickr

SEPECAT Jaguar T4 - 22 by Nick Jennings, on Flickr

SEPECAT Jaguar GR3A - 70 by Nick Jennings, on Flickr

Post by **PeterR** » Mon 26 Oct 2020, 3:55 pm

Wednesday 26th October 2016 saw a visit to RAF Coningsby for the Air Combat Power Visit. Not many photographic opportunities but always nice to get up close with modern military equipment.

Post by **Seamus** » Mon 26 Oct 2020, 5:46 pm

Some more from me from the 2017 Navy Wings nightshoot

McDonnell Douglas F-4K Phantom FG1 XV586/010 Royal Navy RNAS Yeovilton 26/10/17 by Shaun Schofield, on Flickr

DeHavilland Sea Vixen FAW2 XP924/G-CVIX Fly Navy Heritage Trust RNAS Yeovilton 26/10/17 by Shaun Schofield, on Flickr

Hawker Sea Fury T20 VX281/G-RNHF Fly Navy Heritage Trust RNAS Yeovilton 26/10/17 by Shaun Schofield, on Flickr

Hawker Sea Fury FB11 VR930 Royal Navy Historic Flight RNAS Yeovilton 26/10/17 by Shaun Schofield, on Flickr

Post by **Blackbird** » Mon 26 Oct 2020, 5:56 pm

That Phantom is a cracker!

Post by **buccs2b** » Tue 27 Oct 2020, 10:49 am

27 October 1996. Tour - The Final: after overnighting in San Francisco, we headed to the airport but on the way stopped of in the car park of the NASA Ames facility at Moffett Field

199610_NASA-Ames_0003 by Tony Adams, on Flickr

After that it was check-in and off home.

An eye opening tour, by todays' standard, I did not take that many images by todays' standards - I can only think a memory card top-up would have been required if I had been shooting digital

Hope you've enjoyed the images, if you stuck with my updates.

Post by **ianf** » Wed 28 Oct 2020, 9:37 am

Today 2015 was the end of the V force flying era. But when we got to Finningley ( it will always be that to me) It did not look promising.

It went on like this all day till about 45 mins before dark she finally came out. With a mix of wet runway and the sun breaking through the next twenty minutes was something special.

The first flypast gave us something I had never seen vapour on the entire top wing!

It was not a display just fly throughs, but they did do something they didn't do at shows namely a touch and go. Which would have helped the display a lot. This was also the last ever take off for a Vulcan.

This was her last ever climb out and the sky seemed to agree it needed a spectacular back drop for her to do it.

Then all to suddenly, the final landing.

With the fire trucks giving a salute, the Vulcan story and indeed V force had ended as a flying aircraft.

I was sad to see it end, but I was not as emotional as I had the time before at Finningley when she opened her bomb doors with the message farewell on it. I was proud to have played a tiny part in her upkeep, with us on the Victor team supplying her with parts to enable her to continue flying.

Post by **Blackbird** » Wed 28 Oct 2020, 9:40 am

Lovely set, with a great story well told.

Andy

Post by **shorsley** » Wed 28 Oct 2020, 10:08 am

Great set Ian, hard to believe it was five years ago

I remember watching the live video feed on my mobile at work and hoping no customers would interrupt.

Post by **Georgeconna** » Wed 28 Oct 2020, 10:32 am

ah the ol Touch and goes, Way to Dangerous these days to do them it seems. all over shoots now.

Post by **ianf** » Wed 28 Oct 2020, 11:11 am

I may be wrong George but I think actually touching down used a small cycle of fatigue life which is why they did so few. People forget 558 went way past the fatigue life of other Vulcans, at the end she was almost experimental. If that applies to todays aircraft I've no idea.

Post by **capercaillie** » Wed 28 Oct 2020, 3:37 pm

buccs2b wrote: ↑
Mon 26 Oct 2020, 10:19 am

Then it was off to Sacramento

199610_FB111A_Sacramento by Tony Adams, on Flickr

Now there is an impressive beastie. FB-111 pre-production aircraft, adapted to an F-111G and sent to the Air Logistics center at Sacramento where it received its spectacular paintjob, it was even more impressive than it is here. Unfortunately the museum decided to repaint it at a later stage in "ordinary" FB-111 colours which rather took away its relevance to being preserved here. Great catch, very jealous Tony.