gary1701 Posted October 18, 2016 Share Posted October 18, 2016 (edited) Hi gents, First post on the new forum so it's a bit of a test for photo attachments. I haven't made many recently because I've not being able to get out with the camera. Did a run yesterday though to take advantage of some nice Autumn light here in the UK. If you want to get some close aviation images then for action there's not really a better place in the UK than RAF Coningsby, home to the Southern half of the UK's Typhoon force. As expected it was a little quiet as one of the frontline units is away and the Evaluation unit is doing it's usual late in the year trip to the US on weapons trials. That still left the conversion unit and one frontline unit. One rather bad move from a photographers point of view is the new policy of removing unit markings from operationally deployable jets, which means that virtually all the Tranche 2 single seater Typhoon FGR4's at both Coningsby and Lossiemouth are now just coded, and some don't even have that. Only the early Tranche 1 two seaters and a few single seaters remain marked up, as well as and specials that are about. RAF Tutor on the overshoot behind heading back to Cranwell. Laid back driver. The jets may have lost all the markings, but the drivers are still friendly! Change of position for the afternoon, moving round to the South with the Sun. Well they used to have a 'birdman', maybe that's been axed as well. Certainly weren't no sign of him yesterday. Finally, I saw a nice sunset building so charged back up the approach end, knowing there was a flight still out, and hoping it would line up. Edit: After posting I notice these are being resized down from their original 1024x683 too 1004x670 and are losing their sharpness. Is there a way of altering the viewer settings to prevent this as I remember it happening once on the old forum a long time ago and there was a way to fix it? Gary Edited October 19, 2016 by gary1701 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bikerider Posted October 18, 2016 Share Posted October 18, 2016 Nice photos. Especially the sunset ones. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
kstater94 Posted October 19, 2016 Share Posted October 19, 2016 Great shots as always Gary Looks like you caught some of the same ones as Kev! (Milky) Cheers! John Quote Link to post Share on other sites
gary1701 Posted October 19, 2016 Author Share Posted October 19, 2016 (edited) Thanks guys and Hi John. I hope they're similar, I was standing right beside him when he took them! I was actually down the other end in the unofficial carpark and was about to call it a day and make the three hour trip home when it suddenly dawned on me that the sun was coming out of the bottom of the clouds as the final flight called up inbound. I knew at this time of year it pretty much sets directly on the centreline so I dashed from one end to the other, pulled into the empty layby and saw a small van pulled onto the roadside further up. I dashed up the side of the road (ladder in tow!) to get directly inline and he was already there with exactly the same idea. It was a bit of a rush camera set up and unfortunately a couple of the overshoots were high but didn't do too bad. First time back up there since the Indian Flankers came in July last year. Gary Edited October 19, 2016 by gary1701 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
kstater94 Posted October 26, 2016 Share Posted October 26, 2016 Very cool! I love this time of year over there Thanks again for posting! Cheers! John Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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