I was lucky enough to spend the day with the 48th Fighter Wing at RAF Lakenheath back in April 2016. It was a huge privilege to get up close and personal with these front line aircraft and their crew.
Thanks so much to those that made it happen. It will be a day that I’ll remember for a long long time!
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I thought I’d shoot the bomber launches and recoveries in slow motion for this sortie to try something different.
This aircraft was taking part in Ample Strike 2017 in the Czech Republic. The jet is from the 307th Bomb Wing based out of Dyess AFB in Texas.
I thought I’d shoot the bomber launches and recoveries in slow motion for this sortie to try something different.
This aircraft was taking part in Ample Strike 2017 in the Czech Republic. The jet is from the 307th Bomb Wing based out of Dyess AFB in Texas.
Always a pleasure to see RAF Lakenheath’s 48th Fighter Wing low level in Wales with their F-15s. These C models, callsign GATOR 11-14, were from the famed 493rd FS ‘The Grim Reapers’. Interesting to note the Sniper Pod on the lead jet.
A pair of 1st Squadron F-16s from the Belgian Air Force paid us a visit at Lake Vyrnwy near the Mach Loop on their way to RIAT 2017. Great to see these guys down at low level.
We had two unbelievable passes of the Boeing C-17 Globemaster III through the Mach Loop in Wales on July 7th. I’ve seen some sights through here, but this was a special one.
This is the biggest aircraft ever to do the loop, a record that will be hard to beat. This particular aircraft is from Charleston AFB in South Carolina.
The 493rd Fighter Squadron, the Grim Reapers, paid us a visit on the 7th July in the Mach loop with their F-15Cs. These guys really are impressive at low level, and this was the first time I managed to capture them in The Mach Loop.
This B-1 was the first of three to leave RAF Fairford on June 20th at the end of the early summer deployment to the UK.
It’s always a thrill to see a B-1 launch, and I’m looking forward to them being back on UK soil again soon for RIAT. Farewell for now.
It was a busy day for bombers on June 9th at RAF Fairford, and was the first time I’d seen (and filmed) all three of Global Strike Command’s heavy bombers on the same day.
These two aircraft were flown from Whiteman AFB, Missouri, visited a bombing range in the UK before recovering into Fairford. These aircraft were 82-1068 Spirit Of New York (MYTEE51) and 88-0329 Spirit Of Missouri (MYTEE52).
The famed B-2 Spirit ‘Stealth Bomber’ entered service in 1997 and they still look absolutely cutting edge to my eyes, despite the fact that they celebrate 20 years in service this year. Happy birthday B-2.
Shortly following the B-52 on the same day, and just after 6am on a chilly summers morning, the regular dawn chorus of rural Gloucestershire was accompanied by the sound of two B-1Bs (85-0084 BONE01 and 86-139 BONE02) out to a Baltops mission somewhere out in the Baltic Sea.
These aircraft come from the 34th BS United States Air Force at Ellsworth AFB in South Dakota.