You set the shutter speed on the camera and i wouldn’t bother getting a 75-300 with image stabiliser, the 75-300usm mk3 isn’t that heavy so i doubt it would really be any use to you. And it’s more expensive too.

Here is one of my recent one’s

Here is another pic of the drover and one of the more interesting glider tugs at Lasham. Thanks for giving the camera back Anna, Nice pic’s though.

Lovely pic’s Septic especially the first one from the last batch.

The tower was a ww2 tower with the large glass new tower stuck on top of it like at RAF Church Fenton. The hangars were C type but couldn’t see if they were the full length bomber ones or the shorter fighter ones. The layout was the standard 3 in a loose semi circle.

Ollie

Watton airfield has 4 C type hangars and i believe they are the full length ones. The airfield is still used for para dropping by the USAF special forces herks from Mildenhall.

The village was especially constructed to train the army in the art of urban warfare against the Warsaw pact armies it opened in 1990 just prior to the Berlin Wall being torn down.

There is a village like this at East Wretham in Norfolk which used to be an airfield, It forms part of the battle area and is not too far from Watton airfield.

XT896, XT897,XT910,XV433,XV469 and XV487 were held in store until August 95.

I can’t believe they did that, presumably Stansted air traffic control were warned. Wish I’d been taking the dogs for a walk on the Spains Hall footpath, nobody I know in the village here noticed anything but then they all hate aircraft apart from the Sucklings, they get annoyed when I refuse to sign any anti Stansted campaigns. When I moved here nearly 20 years ago I thought it was inevitable that Stansted would expand and always accepted it, ok, I’m into aviation, but people move here then start complaining, would they have done this if F-15’s were now based at Wethersfield. Anyway, apart from some hair raising incidents with Il-76’s in the past which even I complained about, we get few low overflights here except for the occasional Spitfire, which seems acceptable.
The other day I took the dogs for a walk through the field where the Havoc crashed. As the field had just been ploughed, the depression was clearly visible. The ground was very dry so I had a bit of a poke around and found nothing, but the dogs went mental and started digging frantically in the ground which is unusual for them, they obviously knew something that I couldn’t sense.

And i bet the people who moan about Stansted don’t mind flying from there when they go on holiday.