Blog Posts in Category: Aviation
RAF flying low level in Snowdonia
This week I headed up to the “Mach Loop” in Snowdonia to take pictures of the RAF practising their low level flying, it had been 15 months since I was last there due to work levels over the past year and 12 months since I last went to a lowfly area. The trip was cut short by a day at the start of the week and a day at the end of the week due to the awful welsh weather, the weather however while we were in the hills was ok good with not much rain though mainly overcast skies and lots…
Vulcan and BBMF Low Level!
This weekend was Windermere air show which is unique in the fact that it is in a mountainous area which means that it is possible to stand on a hill and take pictures of the aircraft displaying below you. Two years ago the Vulcan displayed there and I have been waiting for her to display there again ever since as the photos from it were just surreal. I did go last year but the Vulcan was not displaying and the weather was awful to say the least! On the Tuesday before the show the Vulcan confirmed to display so a…
Royal International Air Tatoo
This weekend was the annual Royal International Air Tatoo (RIAT) at RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire and I went for the first time, I hadn’t pointed my camera at a military aircraft since September last year when I went to the Selkirk-Moffat pass until I attended RIAT so it was nice to see/hear/take pictures of them again. It is also the first time I have taken pictures at a normal airshow as the only other airshow I have taken pictures at was Windermere airshow which was more like low level photography than an airshow as i was shooting down onto the…
Eurofighter Typhoon in Libya?
With the United Nations recent decision to back a no fly zone over Libya and in my opinion the most likely jet of ours to be deployed being the Eurofighter Typhoon due to the probability of air to air combat meaning that jets that have air superiority are required. For this we have two alternatives, the Tornado F3 or the Typhoon and there isn’t much of a choice with the F3s due to retire next week and the Typhoons ability to attack ground targets too. There are however alternatives for just ground attack which are the Tornado GR4 which are currently deployed in Afghanistan…
Cockpits of the RAF’s Fast Jets
Due to various reasons recently I have not had time to do all that much photography and have not done any low level photography since October, so I have been spending some spare time re-processing some low level photos from this summer just to focus in on the cockpits. Thankfully in a week I spent in Snowdonia and the Lake Disctict photographing them at low level in June I had passes from all three of the RAF’s fast jets at the time, the training version of the Harrier Jump Jet the T12, The GR4 version of the Tornado and FGR4…
Lowfly in Scotland
Last week was my last week up in Glasgow before returning to university and I managed to get two days off work where I went to the Selkirk to Moffat pass in the hope that I would get some nice passes. On the first day I arrived to lots of hill fog and rain, but I braved it and went up anyway and it proved to be a good decision as I had a great pass at the end of the day by a RAF Tornado GR4. On the second day i went up a different hill and discovered that…