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Swiss Airforce line up of FA-18 Hornets.How long is it since there were 11 aircraft on the apron at Lossie?
My first time at Royal Air Force Lossiemouth or more commonly RAF Lossiemouth is a military airfield located on the western edge of the town of Lossiemouth in Moray, north-east Scotland, Wow what a day cant waight to go back weather wasn't Grt but an awesome show.
Lossie's brand new re-surfaced main runway laid at a cost of £75 million and all part of a £400 million re-vamp of the Scottish base infrastructure, security, runways and taxiways and Air Traffic Control services
Dambusters
Three different generations of the No. 617 Squadron RAF aka The Dambusters. Leading is the Avro Lancaster followed by the Panavia Tornado and the Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning II. Cool to see the 3 together at RIAT
Taken 5th Oct 1969 Flying Shobdon to Shoreham in G-AXDU Pup Charles Masefeild at the controls. I seem to remember the rear seat was full of confiscated cider that the Beagle crew had pinched from the Strong Bull Air Race tent !
A significant anniversary to be marked in 2014 is the 100th anniversary of the commencement of World War I, and this is reflected by the colour scheme carried by this season’s Royal Air Force Tucano display aircraft, ZF244, representing No. 1 Flying Training School based at RAF Linton-on-Ouse.
RAF E6938 - Sopwith 7F.1 Snipe - Royal Air Force
at the Canada Aviation & Space Museum, Ottawa
built in 1918
British single-seater fighter aircraft designed by the
Sopwith Aviation Company during the First World War - Flown by the British, Canadian and Australian air forces - last British fighter to enter service during the war, it was the most powerful and advanced of the Sopwith rotary-engine aircraft
The WW.II Watch Office/Control Tower at the former RAF Swinderby 9 miles SW of Lincoln a photo taken in 2005, this and the hangar behind as well as all airfield structures were demolished in 2009-2010. The old airfield then became a quarry for gravel extraction with a new housing estate and business park (after more demolition) on the former domestic site. RAF Swinderby opened in 1940 closing in 1993 and sold off in 1995, another significant 'Bomber County' airfield sadly into history.
RAF Stenigot was a Second World War radar station situated at Stenigot, near Donington on Bain, Lincolnshire.
It was part of the Chain Home radar network, intended to provide long range early warning for raids from Luftflotte V and the northern elements of Luftflotte II along the approaches to Sheffield and Nottingham and the central midlands.[1]
After the Second World War, the site was retained as part of the Chain Home network. In 1959 it was upgraded to a communications relay site as part of the ACE High program, which involved adding four tropospheric scatter dishes.[2]
The site was decommissioned in the late 1980s and was mostly demolished by 1996.
The radar tower is a Grade II listed structure and is now used by the RAF Aerial Erector School for selection tests for possible recruits.
There is a Memorial at the top to a former RAF Aerial Erector.