RAF Valley - 11.08.10

[kevm]

Well... where do I start. After what seemed like a quiet start at Valley, it soon turned into a right busy day with numerous visitors. Of course we had the usual Hawks, including both the display Hawk and the 95th Anniversary specials. Then we had the visiting Apaches, what a sight it is seeing all 6 of them lined up as they were

Now... onto the visitors, through the day we has a single pass from a GR4, 4 passes from an F3 (including one high speed pass with wings swept) and then 3 seperate FAF Alpha Jets did a single pass each topped off by a wing wave from the final one!!! So all in all a pretty succesful day from an old hunting ground, it would seem the RAF are well and truely back in action

Onto the photos, hope you enjoy them.... this was my first time out to give my new D300s a good thrashing, I'm happy with the results but I defo need to be learning all these features it has, it's a bit of a step up from my old D50! One or two of these photos have been cropped fairly heavily due to my *ahem* lack of length.

[Monvillez]

Fantastic shots there Kevm. Was indeed quite a busy day, I've sat around there for days with only small movements of Sea Kings and Hawks.

I wonder who's piloting the solo display Hawk now as Tom Saunders has been removed from the display? I think the RAF are coming up with some sort of abridged performance but not the full display as they purportedly don't have anyone trained up in the routine. I bet there's a few jockeys down there at 4FTS who'd argue with them over that ;D

Regards,
Garry

[stemai]

I went along with kev for the day. Here are a few pics i took, some are of the same aircraft as kev's posted.



























Thanks for looking.