Evening all,
Spent the first of two days at VL today or the arrivals day. On paper, it had the potential to be a corker, but instead turned out to be a little indifferent, with the Aeronavale’s spectacular arrival straight into their display being the undoubted highlight of a fairly slow and relatively uneventful day, in terms of the foreign participation at least. The 40th anniversary of the Lynx is the main theme of the show, and there was plenty of Lynx action today, with so many airframes up I lost count! I’ll be adding some images of them and the other RN helos in due course, but my first instalment to the thread is of the fast jets and exotica that arrived today. Unfortunately, with the arrival of the MiGs yesterday, I’ll have to wait until tomorrow to shoot them, so here’s the remaining fast jets that’ll be on show tomorrow. The French jets were awesome, with the Rafale nudging the sound barrier in one pass, resulting in a fair old bang!
VL_2011_001 by Seamus_85, on Flickr
VL_2011_002 by Seamus_85, on Flickr
VL_2011_003 by Seamus_85, on Flickr
VL_2011_004 by Seamus_85, on Flickr
VL_2011_005 by Seamus_85, on Flickr
VL_2011_006 by Seamus_85, on Flickr
VL_2011_007 by Seamus_85, on Flickr
VL_2011_008 by Seamus_85, on Flickr
VL_2011_009 by Seamus_85, on Flickr
VL_2011_010 by Seamus_85, on Flickr
VL_2011_011 by Seamus_85, on Flickr
VL_2011_012 by Seamus_85, on Flickr
VL_2011_014 by Seamus_85, on Flickr
VL_2011_015 by Seamus_85, on Flickr
Time to get some rest now before the show proper tomorrow!
Thanks for looking, comments welcomed as ever,
Cheers
Shaun
By: wiseman - 12th July 2011 at 07:58
More superb pix. Thanks for a nice catch of the Polish MiG – it looks great.
By: danjama - 11th July 2011 at 20:08
Pretty much every photo is magnificent!
By: Seamus - 11th July 2011 at 19:00
Thanks chaps, very kind of you all.
With a bunch of shots from Legends now added to my workload, I thought it best to crack on and edit the rest of my Yeovilton shots before getting stuck into them. So here’s a final selection of shots., plenty more on my Flickr
VL_2011_031 by Seamus_85, on Flickr
VL_2011_032 by Seamus_85, on Flickr
VL_2011_034 by Seamus_85, on Flickr
VL_2011_035 by Seamus_85, on Flickr
VL_2011_036 by Seamus_85, on Flickr
VL_2011_037 by Seamus_85, on Flickr
VL_2011_038 by Seamus_85, on Flickr
VL_2011_043 by Seamus_85, on Flickr
VL_2011_045 by Seamus_85, on Flickr
VL_2011_055 by Seamus_85, on Flickr
VL_2011_057 by Seamus_85, on Flickr
VL_2011_064 by Seamus_85, on Flickr
VL_2011_070 by Seamus_85, on Flickr
VL_2011_074 by Seamus_85, on Flickr
Thanks again, comments welcomed as ever
Shaun 🙂
By: Griffhawk - 11th July 2011 at 08:29
Seamus, absolutely stunning photo’s! Nice to see a Mig-29 on the air show circuit again, haven’t seen one for a long time!
By: wiseman - 11th July 2011 at 06:39
Very nice shots. My favourites in this set are the German F-4, the Polish MiG and the Super Etendard – some rare sights.
Thanks.
By: 92fis - 10th July 2011 at 00:38
They are all nice but that last one is my favourite though.
By: Tony at BH - 9th July 2011 at 22:54
Love the last shot, very atmospheric. And of course the Vulcan/Vixen flypast. Great shots.
Tony
By: Seamus - 9th July 2011 at 22:51
Cheers chaps
Today’s show was absolutely mega. I’ve gone through a few of the many, many shots I took from on base today. There’ll be more to follow, but I need some much needed sleep ahead of Legends tomorrow, so here’s a handful of edits for now.
VL_2011_016 by Seamus_85, on Flickr
VL_2011_019 by Seamus_85, on Flickr
VL_2011_020 by Seamus_85, on Flickr
VL_2011_021 by Seamus_85, on Flickr
VL_2011_023 by Seamus_85, on Flickr
VL_2011_024 by Seamus_85, on Flickr
VL_2011_025 by Seamus_85, on Flickr
VL_2011_027 by Seamus_85, on Flickr
VL_2011_028 by Seamus_85, on Flickr
Thanks for looking,
Shaun
By: mike currill - 9th July 2011 at 07:56
Apart from it being French the Etendard is still a good looking machine.
By: me109g4 - 9th July 2011 at 01:20
Nice pics of the F4,, i didnt know the Luftwaffe was still flying them. Last one of those i ran into was at Edwards in Ca. the USAF had painted it in US markings to not attract attention for some reason but the crew readily admited who they were so kind of a moot point.
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