While it is very true that into today’s security conscious world, aviation enthusiasts and aviation photographers are not made welcome at most British Airports, there are usually places outside the airport boundary that spotters and photographers congregate. True a car is a great advantage not only to find the locations, but to shelter from the British summer weather!
Try a “Google” using the Airport name and spotting (or spotters, photography, viewing) as your key words, and you will get links to a number of sites.
For example for DTV (assuming that to be your ‘local’):
There is more to aviation than airliners. Light aircraft airfields, gliding sites and microlight airfields are usually much more friendly, and you are usually reasonably close to the action for photography. Fly-in events (again can be found on a “Goggle”) are very weather dependent but a good day out. Seafront Air Displays eg Sunderland are also a great opportunity to see diverse aircraft being put through their paces. RAF Leeming has a good spotting viewpoint, although is quiet much of time time, does hold exercises eg recent deployment of A-10 Thunderbolts. News of these are often provided by spotters forum – I know I’m the admin of a very active Merseyside/North West England aviation forum, so find a NE based group forum for local information, don’t expect international sites such as this one, excellent as it is, to provide local information.
Cool thanks for the info. Sadly I dont drive. Got a pushike tho…
Fabulous video of a fabulous plane. I used to have a model of a Constellation in TWA livery. Is there a difference between the Constellation and Super Constellation? Or are they synonymous?
Hi All,
I watched the very underrated ‘Thunderbolt and Lightfoot’ via (Sky Cinema) have watched it a few times and always enjoy the film….:cool:
Starring:-Clint Eastwood,Jeff Bridges as Lightfoot,George Kennedy,Geoffrey Lewis,Gary Busey,Catherine Bach,Jack Dodson,Gregory Walcott,Vic Tayback
Bill McKinney,Roy Jenson,Burton Gilliam,Beth Howland,Dub Taylor,Claudia Lennear and June Fairchild.
While stealing a car, free-spirited drifter Lightfoot (Jeff Bridges) crosses paths with legendary thief Thunderbolt (Clint Eastwood) in the midst of his own escape. Thunderbolt’s old partners in crime, Red (George Kennedy) and Eddie (Geoffrey Lewis), believe he double-crossed them after they robbed a Montana bank vault several years ago. After Thunderbolt successfully pleads his innocence and is let off the hook, Lightfoot rallies them together as a group to rob the very same bank again.
To me the wide bulge of the fuselage (to house the side-by-side cockpit), coupled with the ‘bulky’ shape of the fuselage under the wing housing the central wheel is a give-away that this is the Slingsby motor-glider. The Fournier RF-3/4 and two seat RF-5 are much sleaker in the central fuselage being single-seat, or the two pilots being one behind the other.
Will be interested when ‘Larry 66’ next looks-in to find out where he was when he took the photos.
I was at a motorway services called Moto on the way to Chester Zoo. But it was about an hour into the journey from Darlington to Chester.
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