Nice shots – Looks like you were stood right next to me!
Kev,
Nice to see ‘The Old Lodge’ at the gate, which I and my company had the pleasure of selling by auction two or three years ago when it was a complete wreck. Thankfully, it looks like the buyer has restored it!
Steve
Wow, that is a decent chunk. Better condition than the RAFM piece as well
Clicky – NSFW, depending on how sensitive your gaffer is. Only a bit of swearing.
😀
Made me laugh anyway
I couldn’t resist trying a crop on photo No.11, cropped on the left, original on the right


Any opinions?
Steve
Thankyou for your comments.
I got quite a few shots similar to that, but picked the best couple to go on here. No. 11 is posted here straight off the camera, no photo-shopping at all, maybe it would look better with a crop but I wanted to give the impression that it was rapidly heading towards to viewer, just about to take your head off or send you deaf!
Of all the places I’ve shot at, this is the lowest I have seen fast jets come in over your head, but I have far from been everywhere. I’m just glad a Harrier didn’t show up of else I probably would have gone deaf! (Probably one of the loudest a/c I can think of, off the top of my head)
EDIT – I tell a lie about photoshopping, I think I may have lightened it up a bit as it was a bit under-exposed.
http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?p=1297690
Crashed at Mona last year, pilot got out safely thankfully
Steve
I think that is him in Pic 19 as well, I’ve got the order a little muddled
Brokkie,
PM sent
Steve
I don’t know what a Tacan is, but the following flashearth links will show you – (one, I have already mentioned to you I think)
http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=53.258255&lon=-4.547285&z=17.6&r=0&src=msl
http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=53.258222&lon=-4.530633&z=18.6&r=0&src=msl
http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=53.256201&lon=-4.520046&z=18&r=0&src=msl
and possibly here
http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=53.250449&lon=-4.510222&z=17.7&r=0&src=msl
Steve
Have you tried asking at the Airfield Info Exchange, can’t go wrong there.
Good call, I’ll post somthing there too
Steve
One puzzle is that almost all of the sources quote the place of the crash as “near Lyon, Italy” yet Ian says he photographed the memorial at La Jasserie, which is near Saint Etienne?
They must mean Lyon, France, I cannot think or find a location of Lyon in Italy
Thanks for all the advice, BlueRobin – no I don’t have a PPL, I’ve only flown I think four times, and all these as passenger on the likes of Easyjet.
To BlueRobin, Joglo, Armwaver – What sort of work do you do?
Tenthije – What work would someone in the DHL airfreight Tamworth office do?
Ideally, I would like to work on-site ie/on an airfield, or even several. I have a degree in Building Surveying, so I guess airfield maintenance work might suit me?
Steve
Thanks for all the advice, BlueRobin – no I don’t have a PPL, I’ve only flown I think four times, and all these as passenger on the likes of Easyjet.
To BlueRobin, Joglo, Armwaver – What sort of work do you do?
Tenthije – What work would someone in the DHL airfreight Tamworth office do?
Ideally, I would like to work on-site ie/on an airfield, or even several. I have a degree in Building Surveying, so I guess airfield maintenance work might suit me?
Steve