39 Squadron at RAF Marham still operate the PR9. info at
http://www.raf.mod.uk/equipment/canberra.html
edit to add : some photos at http://www.rafmarham.co.uk/gallery/page4.htm
Ken
edit: PL you beat me to it 🙂
can you say ‘zooming up to 30ft’ ?? 🙂
PL, you can’t afford it, you’ve got a flight in a Lancaster to pay for:)
Cracking shots Allen. Lovely detail. I must learn to get in tight sometimes.
Ken
Andrew, as JDK say, folks are looking and liking. You are showing a different side of the Fairford show. Don’t be put off.
K
You lucky thing, I always seem to miss Chinooks, or don’t have a camera when they are there.
A few years ago I was hill walking above Arrochar on Beinn Narnain, a chinook that had been buzzing around landed on the next hilltop along, guess who didn’t have a camera!
Thanks fo r the comments
A330Crazy: Allen was there to protect me 🙂
Moggy, nice to see her back in the air. Hope you have a great times together again.
K
Did someone mention a Dan-Air Comet? (East Fortune last week)
What PL didn’t say about hte Comet at East Fortune is:
‘G-BDIX’ was initially built for RAF Transport Command as Comet C.4 XR399. Retired from RAF service as their last passenger-carrying Comet in 1975, the aircraft was sold on to Dan Air London who retired the aircraft in 1980. It was the last Comet to fly in commercial colours when it flew from Lasham, Hampshire to East Fortune in September 1981.
from the Museum of Flight website
The current (August 2004) Todays Pilot has an interesting article about the cub. Quite liked the warning about not being too heavy on the brakes, in case the tyres slip and rip the valve!
lovely stuff, nice to see a Stampe.
Kev, all the best. You bring a touch of common sense to this sometimes madhouse. Don’t go too far away.
Best wishes
Ken
… camera man legging it quickly to the refreshment marquee, downing a large double whisky and taking the rest of the day off. 😮
Is that not the normal end of shift then?
I wonder if just spotting you in the sky is cause for a mayday
call? 😀
If he’s on his own then probably, since he is only 16 according to his profile 😮
shows classic symptoms of camera shake, you need to get the shutter speed up