Some images from a few visits in recent months, starting with a trip last week:
Morning launches making their way to the runway before the heat haze really started to interfere:
The morning wave RTB:
Several nice tight circuits from this one - still banking as he crossed the A1065!
This flight went out armed with a full load of LGB and iron bomb training rounds, returning with the former still attached:
Moved round to the other side for the afternoon/evening activity. Also my first attempts from up a ladder - not as easy as it looks!
F-16 evening ops:
A couple from the "surge ops" of August, taken from Maids Cross Hill near the hot pits.
And some random ones from a couple of visits on quiet days:
Recent Lakenheath/Mildenhall
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Re: Recent Lakenheath/Mildenhall
Lovely shots Dan, some attractive UK based fast jets worth photographing and done so exceptionally well.
Will be a shame when we lose the C/Ds, that little bit of disruptive patterning makes the world of difference.
Will be a shame when we lose the C/Ds, that little bit of disruptive patterning makes the world of difference.
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Re: Recent Lakenheath/Mildenhall
Thanks Paul. I didn’t really get the shots I was after last week, and neither the Heritage Jet or the Have Glass F-16 flew so that was a bit of a bummer too. I was really excited for all these deployments but as usual, the B-52s have come and gone without a visit and the F-35s at Marham ended up being very hit and miss from the local reports on FC, so some grey F-16s is all I managed.
I don’t think there is any clarity on what happens to the 493FS and their jets yet. It’s been confirmed that the first F-35 squadron will be the re-activated 495th FS, so they may have a few more years over here yet?
I don’t think there is any clarity on what happens to the 493FS and their jets yet. It’s been confirmed that the first F-35 squadron will be the re-activated 495th FS, so they may have a few more years over here yet?
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Re: Recent Lakenheath/Mildenhall
Great stuff Dan, you couldn't have been very far away from me at all last Tuesday judging by the similar angles. Was a good day!