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Great day for the show

She is hiding in the lounge today as the Spotters Day gets under way, today's opening: Hand held 1000mm f16 @ 1/1000sec iso400 well they are about 5km from here :) and it looks like I'm not under the flight path today as we were yesterday

Dreach day here in Eksel, low cloud and a little misty but that has not stopped the practicing This one is looking straight up from my back garden 90degree bank and in re-heat The cat took shelter under the garden furniture as the F16s roared overhead most of the jets were over so fast they were gone by the time I got the camera to my eye The 18:00 anticipated thunder and lightning has just arrived at 21:00 glad I got the grass cut before... well I needed an excuse to be outside with the camera ;) Next two days ae forecast as rain but Saturday and Sunday should be sunny spells and a high of 19c/20c

Been a nice day here watching some of the aircraft coming in to KB and some practice flights over my house today.

A friend who is a master of a very large containership was telling me that they have to keep 3 types of fuel: Bunker oil, which is like a thin black grease and needs warmed up before it can be fed to the engine and produces lots of black smoke when under power; Heavy oil, which is a dark fluid oil like a thin crude oil and does not require heating before being fed to the engine, it still produces smoke but not as much as the bunker oil; Diesel oil, the lightest oil and similar to what you would put in your car or truck, mainly it is required for entering port in the US especially in California which have quite stringent pollution requirements. This is for the Sulzer 12RT-flex96C cylinder diesel engine not a steam boiler though. http://www.containership-info.com/vessel_9289958.html

1080p 200" projection screen + 1920x1080 Samsung monitor

It needs to go north a little further in Scotland, you just miss out the UK/US submarine naval bases at Holy Loch and Faslane on the Gareloch, that area was/is very active with both surface ships and submarines. If you take it as far north as Garelochhead then you capture the target rich area where the Polaris and later Trident ICBMs are stored. It is just under 50 miles, besides capturing that on the West Coast/Clyde estuary you would also get the Naval Dockyards at Rosyth near Edinburgh and would also take in RAF Leuchars near St Andrews, it was from there that many interceptions of Soviet aircraft was done during the cold war.

Maybe I misheard the pilot when he said it was a block 30, could have been lost in translation, certainly it was not a 50/52 and only 2 MFDs Certainly there is a lot of discussion going on here about whether to update the F16 again or go for a F35. Not noticed any sensors on the cockpit but you can see the different shape of the helmet when they fly by. And yeah they are close enough that they will wave back to you if they see you :)

Belgium has Block 30s and they have the JHMCS, although I don't think it is fitted to all of them as some that fly above my house have the enhanced helmet and some have normal helmets. Yes they fly that low and slow over my house :) :pilotfly: On the recent TV series featuring our local airbase we got to see one of the technicians taking the helmet apart to service it, some of the bits were censored tho :(

Burning pine?

I will be there on the Saturday with my grandson, we have been going to the airshows here since he was 2 years old and he is 8 now. We live under the flight path to KB, my house is just where they turn from downwind to base. Joe, yes it was wet last year and my video camera broke at the sunset show :( Our first visit to the Sunset show at Sanicole, he is waiting on his cousin to fly in with a C130 :) VIP days at Sanicole 2years ago

And? The kilt helps when you have to leave your aircraft as if done properly it can act as supplemental drogue chute.

At our local airfield

While not that high on my list and would rather have an OV-10, I do like the Cessna Skymaster and have had a nose around one at Wick airport while getting ready to fly a 152 to Orkney. A couple of Skymasters seem to have the dubious reputation of having being shot down by a Cuban Mig 29 in 1996 too.

Very true and thank you for keeping us informed :thumbup:

You can see them here: http://www.anft.net/f-14/f14-detail-airintake.htm

While taking in the washing today: Went out as a 4 ship in diamond formation and came back as 3 + 1

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That they are, we got a good briefing on the operation of them in Afghanistan when visiting a British Chinook Squadron. In a rescue flight one Chinook carried 200 people - I guess with no luggage- that is a lot of weight, it is surprisingly roomy in the back but they must have been packed in like sardines :) I usually trot out a picture of the Chinook carrying the same model of car as mine, Landrover supplied a Range Rover Sport as a run-about for the display team and they carried it around with them in the back of the helicopter. But here instead is one of my son wearing an appropriate T-shirt for our visit to the base :)

Vador practicing his 2018 Airshow routines

The over wing tanks fairly restrict the speed of the Lightning, not that it runs out of thrust, it runs out of elevator control and that limits it's max speed to M0.9 ish One pilot was reminiscing about trying to catch a Victor tanker that had gotten ahead during a ferry flight from the Med and he managed to push his speed up to M0.95 before he ran out of elevator deflection, the aircraft tries to pitch down as speed increases with the over wing tanks fitted, they can however be jettisoned. He did indeed manage to rendezvous with the tanker before he ran out of fuel :) He did mention that the Victor could maintain a higher cruise speed than the Lightning with over wing tanks on.

Training my grandson :pilotfly: I keep throwing him in the air but he hasn't learned to fly yet :D He does like to fly the P51 and the Hawk His first airshow: As VIP guests at the 2016 Sanicole airshow ab initio training when he was 3

It's not the lack of friends or such, it's the environment I have my PC in, it's too noisy here for voice coms, I've tried it and it don't work. I had to compromise with the wife in where I could use my PC, she does not want me away locked up in another room and the only place I can sit my PC is beside the TV in the corner of the room. So no online gaming for me... except when the wife is at work :)

Seems to be a familiar comment about working on the Lightning, I don't fancy doing an inlet check, I would never get past the radar.

You may well be right, those pictures are taken from the weapons manual for the F53 but I had been looking through the weapons manual for the F3, T5 and F6 (AP 101B-1003, 5 & 6-15B) just before it and it had included a similar diagram showing just the ventral gun pack and as it was also in the F53 diagram just used it. The text does mention the F.6 for the gun pack with no mention of the F3 or T5, sloppy reading on my part. Anyway here is the diagram from the other manual