Mach Loop Wales What a Visit! (Pic Heavy)

[Sooty655]

Hi all

So I took my second visit to Mid Wales and Cad West today. It is pot luck I suppose what you see but I am so glad I went today.

What started out as a fairly quite day had a nice end to it for my mate and I and everyone else up there today.

It was my second visit but my first at using my Canon 600D so I apologise for some of the shots but it was my first try. Let me know what you think :smile:

Ok a few general shots you don't normally see.

Cad West is located off the A470 at Cross Foxes and along the A487 about 3 miles. Then on the right is a large car park shown below

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This is looking the other way towards Tallyllyn Lake

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Cad West

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Some of the stunning views that can be seen from the upper end of Cad West

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Ok so lets see some aircraft so first up were two Hawk T1 Aircraft from RAF Valley

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Hawk T2 ZK014 E 4SQN RAF Valley

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"Boscombe Tucano" Tucano T1 ZF510 Boscombe Down

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C-130J Hercules C4 ZH872

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Typhoon T3 ZJ808 DW 11SQN RAF Coningsby

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Then the real treat two Typhoons out of Warton. These did two passes around the Loop the first I missed but I was not going to miss them a second time. Good job i had the camera this time as they performed two of the closest passes seen in a long time. Check out these :smile:

First up is Typhoon ZK092 Warton this aircraft only had its first flight on 26-07-2013 and is going to the Saudi Arabia Airforce!

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Finally Typhoon FGR4 ZJ938 Warton This Aircraft latterly blew us away!!

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Hope you enjoyed looking through those as much as I enjoyed taking them. These were all taken on the same day Thursday 08-08-2013.

Thanks for looking!

Lee.

[Lucas1860]

Nice report. Some good photography, its tricky to do down there.

Thanks for sharing your visit, i'm thinking of paying a visit next week.

Regards

Jim.

[Jigsaw]

Great stuff

[Aceyone]

Very good,especially the last Typhoon

[Gully]

Looks like a good day out!

Gully

[10680]

Nice! Still haven't managed to get there.

[MOD]

Some nice shots Lee. What lens did you use and did you take any video?

Ian

[Leebee0]

Some nice shots Lee. What lens did you use and did you take any video?

Ian

Hi all

Thanks for your kind comments to be honest I am still buzzing from yesterday it was amazing

Anyway Ian to answer your questions :-

I used two different lens on that trip. The body is a Canon 600D and I had used just the standard Canon EFS 18-55mm lens. To get those last Typhoon shots I used a Canon Zoom Lens EF-S 55-250mm Lens. So nothing to spectacular but i have to admit i love the Camera.

Which leads me to your next question. As most know I normally video everything but since I had my stills DSLR that has taken over. I did still however have my video cam with me but elected to go with stills. My friend though did have his cam and did catch that last Typhoon passes on film but he is not a cameraman and found videoing fast moving jets really hard even if they were right in front of us.

I will have a look at the footage which is about 40sec long and see if I can sort it and get it up on youtube as soon as I have done that I will post it here.

Cheers

Lee.

[Ipso]

Super photos Lee. Always wanted to go myself, but don't have the time.

[Nickolas]

Some nice shots Lee. What lens did you use and did you take any video?

Ian

Hi all

Thanks for your kind comments to be honest I am still buzzing from yesterday it was amazing

Anyway Ian to answer your questions :-

I used two different lens on that trip. The body is a Canon 600D and I had used just the standard Canon EFS 18-55mm lens. To get those last Typhoon shots I used a Canon Zoom Lens EF-S 55-250mm Lens. So nothing to spectacular but i have to admit i love the Camera.

Which leads me to your next question. As most know I normally video everything but since I had my stills DSLR that has taken over. I did still however have my video cam with me but elected to go with stills. My friend though did have his cam and did catch that last Typhoon passes on film but he is not a cameraman and found videoing fast moving jets really hard even if they were right in front of us.

I will have a look at the footage which is about 40sec long and see if I can sort it and get it up on youtube as soon as I have done that I will post it here.

Cheers

Lee.

Wow. Always thought you had to gave at least a 300 prime to get anything decent there.
Feel very heartened to have a go there myself....

[Dougs]

The new guy that works for me says he has worked on that hurc when he was serving in the raf and said it looks like it has had an extensive airframe repair prob after a very heavy landing
Awesome shots BTW thanks for sharing with us

[Leebee0]

The new guy that works for me says he has worked on that hurc when he was serving in the raf and said it looks like it has had an extensive airframe repair prob after a very heavy landing
Awesome shots BTW thanks for sharing with us

Hi there

That's really interesting I wandered what all the patches were on her

Cheers

Lee.

[E3Sentry1975]

They are fantastic, love the Herc and last Typhoon.

Darren