Brize Norton 2nd June 2009

[Gully]

Made a fairly pointless detour to spend 6 hours waiting for a hint of flying at Brize today! Tristar took off as I arrived and another Tristar landed mid-afternoon. Oh, and an Alpha Jet flew over. Whoopeee! Thank goodness ibw123 was there to natter to!

What was going on? Did I miss the RAF special Tuesday holiday announcement?

Gully

[Mayfly]

I thought there might be something flying at Coningsby today too, but only 2 Tiffies took off this morning & 2 returned this afternoon otherwise I didn't hear a thing...

[Saracenman]

probably find that the bean-counters in Whitehall have just received a report from a Gov't think-tank, requested by a cross-bench committee, overseen by a specially-appointed panel, chaired by a retired high court judge, saying that the statistics show that no-one has ever attacked another country on a Tuesday before, and that the RAF must "make cost-savings in any way possible"

or maybe you were just unlucky

sm

[Mayfly]

sods law today - just because i wasn't here the tiffies were flying right over our house

[Mackrick]

What was going on? Did I miss the RAF special Tuesday holiday announcement?
Gully

No I was in work today

You missed the tatty C130J , C17, Tristar's, VC10's, Seaking, and a small civil jet.
You must have been looking the wrong way

[Gully]

Here's the photographic evidence of what I actually saw on Tuesday...

Spotters' Path (08 end)


A passing egg-beater


Lunchtime


Activity!!




Followed by lots more of this...


Nearest we got to a VC10 was an engine run by the one immediately adjacent to the hanger!


A visitor from Boscombe Down


A passing Alpha Jet


Then an even longer period of tumbleweed followed by these visitors






Just as I was leaving, this passed over - wow! (where's the sarcasm smiley?!)


Saw a few Tornados around and lots of high-level traffic


And that was it! Still, a pleasant day in the sunshine avoiding gardening! But I've still not seen a VC10 take-off... aarrrrgh!

Cheers,

Gully

PS. Tried the photobucket bulk uploader on these, which whilst being faster seems to affect the quality, so apologies for the "noisy" images!

[Saracenman]

EXCLUSIVE

"RAF tests new stealth aircraft at Brize Norton"



that's a real scoop Gully!

[Wedgy]

[Gully]

It's not only stealthy, it features the new Hush technology too!!

Gully

[Mackrick]

Spent ages seeing it and refuelling it so am surprised you didn't get a shot of me on the pan.

[Saracenman]

but aren't you just visible behind that tree? obviously wearing full camouflage though

[RLN]

but aren't you just visible behind that tree? obviously wearing full camouflage though

Behind tree= wee

[Saracenman]

good point!

tactical weeing though!

[Jigsaw]

Also known as a Stealth Slash

[Mayfly]

[Mackrick]