Monkey

Sorry not been on for a while, not been getting out at all but here are a few sunrise from yesterday morning on our dog walk, sorry dogs not to be seen they were hunting suirrels.

Lovely set

Cracking shots

No not just any person most if not all airports have some form of bird scarer sometimes a shotgun is fired on base or other types used as birds tend to gather on the grassy sections near runways, some have in past used hawks and falcons to scare them away(fully trained) if one of those birds gets sucked into the air intake on a jet it can be deadly, remember the Red Arrows plane that went down couple years ago at RAF Valley on Anglesey that was a bird strike the pilot managed to eject just in time but the crewman in second seat didn’t hit eject button in time and sadly died, Rolls Royce used to have a test bed near where I live at an old RAF and they used to throw frozen chickens into the comment engines during some of there tests, Commercial plane have much larger engines and vanes inside and able to stand up to them more but not always remember that passenger plane landed in river near New York that was a bird strike as well

Thank you

Thank you Homer

Thank you Ryewolf

spooked by the shotgun crew near end of runway

Snuck out this week to Fighter town in mixed weather conditions Only Typhoons toady but a rare side by side take off and landing

Beautiful image

Thank you Colin, its not a busy place

Home of the RAF's heavy stuff. Was a quiet day really not of the planes i saw take off returned whislt i was there only one silly slow shutter speed on the shot of the A400 taxying at 1/50 way out in distance aim was for a full circle as you can see from the yellow tipped prop blades was a hard shot as there is a 2mtr fence do a step ladder is used and a 100-400mm lens @ 400mm with 1.4x fitted as well hand held although i did rest left arm on top of fence. Caught one of the pilots doing curcuits in his own little plane and a C17 returning from Europe

Lovely image

Lovely set Colin

Lovely set, i do like the 1st image best

Great set Colin

Cracking set

In carrot crunching land (east yorkshire)

Lovely

Thank you

Nice angle Colin

Thank you, yes it’s taken from the car park at one of the spots in the Mach Loop

That’s cool, reminds me of “ four candles”

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Thank you