Afternoon all! I know these aren’t strictly Civil Aircraft images but there isn’t exactly an appropriate forum for military images! so here we go….
Me and Tom Gautier (Tom@EMA) met up at Brize Norton at around 7.30/8 in the morning with the predictions of a day of fantastic weather looking promising. I’ve never been to Brize before so was looking foreward to the day even if there was the potential of nothing happening.
In the end we got lucky, an amazing 4 seperate aircraft moved during the day 😉 including an arrival and prompt departure of an RAF HS-125, one RAF C-17, a VC-10 doing countless circuits, towards the end of the day an RAF Tristar doing a similar thing.
I’ve only got pictures of the the former two but hopefully that’s enough and I hope you enjoy :D.
Not my best work but not my worst either :diablo:.
Tom
By: tomfellows - 4th March 2009 at 14:02
Great shots, Tom. Never visited there either – the idea of waiting around all day for not a lot of activity has never really been that appealing, unless it was lovely sunny day. 🙂
By: Future Pilot - 4th March 2009 at 11:04
Were you at the East end of the base by any chance as the scenery looks very familiar? Either that or they’ve cut the hedge at the Western end-at last, they’ve been needing to do that for years.
We were parked on Station Road under the approach path for RWY 26 and one of the other guys there did mention that they’d finally cut the hedge down to size.
It’s a great location on sunny days like that as you can just sit in the car and wait and get out when you need to, the way it is right now gives some fantastic angles when they’re on approach.
There’s also a petrol station a mile or two down the road if you need drinks etc, you’ll have to ask Tom where the location is that produced that first Tristar image! I just followed him till we got to this dead end country road which led to a crash gate next to the runway.
By: mike currill - 4th March 2009 at 10:54
No need to rush mate, the way the MOD goes about it they’ll be long past their use by date before they are replaced
By: Ren Frew - 4th March 2009 at 10:42
Excellent set!!
Must try swing past Brize if those kinds of shot are do-able.
Me too, I want to snap some Tens and Tristars before they’re all gone and replaced by A330’s. I think that’s another mission for my book this year then…
By: mike currill - 4th March 2009 at 10:41
Were you at the East end of the base by any chance as the scenery looks very familiar? Either that or they’ve cut the hedge at the Western end-at last, they’ve been needing to do that for years.
By: Future Pilot - 4th March 2009 at 10:20
Thanks for the comments :).
Must try swing past Brize if those kinds of shot are do-able.
Yep make sure you do! as long as you park on the grass areas and not where it says ‘DO NO PARK AT ANYTIME’ you’ll have no issues at all from airport security etc. 🙂
By: Tartan Pics - 3rd March 2009 at 21:04
Excellent set!!
Must try swing past Brize if those kinds of shot are do-able.
By: EGTC - 3rd March 2009 at 20:19
Nice! Always good to see a VC10 and TriStar.
By: Future Pilot - 3rd March 2009 at 17:28
Cheers for the comments all :).
Great photos Tom! Was good to see you for a few hours.
Nice angle on the first Tristar, we should drive down all roads that say ” VILLAGE ONLY, NO THROUGH ROAD ” if that is the result!
Tom
Thanks mate 😀 and yes well, as you could tell I was already getting ready to do a U-turn and head back. At least you didn’t lead us to a persons driveway/garden this time ;):diablo:.
By: Arabella-Cox - 3rd March 2009 at 17:21
Great photos Tom! Was good to see you for a few hours.
Nice angle on the first Tristar, we should drive down all roads that say ” VILLAGE ONLY, NO THROUGH ROAD ” if that is the result!
Tom
By: jonezi06 - 3rd March 2009 at 16:36
Well Tom, you found your camera again hey? :diablo:
Very nice, im loving that first tristar image! and the head on with the VC-10, with Gautiers head in it 🙂
Regards
Danny
By: PMN - 3rd March 2009 at 16:35
Very nice indeed, Tom. I really wish I could have made it down now. Ahh well…. Next time! 🙂
Paul
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