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Villa wrote:Buster, in the Stealth Fighter picture, is that a Raptor in the background towards the top left corner ?

No, it's one of a line of F/A18 Hornets, not sure who's they are but both US Marines and the RAAF are flying them here.

The F22 is based at Nellis AFB as well, so we often see them taxing and taking off throughout the day, i'll try and get a pic today if i see one.

Villa wrote:If so, what kind of airbase is this with so many differing types of aircraft ?

Alll these pics are taken at the USAF's Nellis AFB "The home of the fighter pilot" It's where air forces from around the world ( well from NATO and its allies ) come to practice all manner or air combat techniques in an exercise called RED FLAG. Most of the pilots i know say this is harder and more dangerous than real combat ( these are often Gulf War I & II vets so they know what combat is like ) Obviously the weapons we use here are not live, but they penalty for getting shot down and then ridiculed by your peers is worse than death for 99% of all fighter pilots.

The nearest thing i can use for comparison is Top Gun. In that film they use the US Navy's Figter Weapons School at Miramar Marine Corps Air Station, Ca. But the idea is very similar.

For a better idea about Red Flag read this link
http://www.afa.org/magazine/Nov2000/1100redflag.asp

Another pic on this link of some of the guys i work with.
http://www.af.mil/news/story_media.asp? ... =123015828

I want to go there

I want photos of boobies and hookers and you getting arrested please.

Future wrote:I want photos of boobies and hookers and you getting arrested please.

Well i found out last night i'm staying here an extra week ( till the 22nd, then to salt lake city for a night then home ) so i'll do my best for you mate. Except the arrested part of course!

Future wrote:I want photos of boobies and hookers and you getting arrested please.

Seconded.

Was talking to Villa in IRC and decided to upload a pic of Nellis AFB.

Obviously i don't have teh equipment for a decent photo, so i used Google earth for this one.



Gooogle was saying that was taken from about 12,000ft so you should get an idea of the scale. Also right in the middle of the flight line there is a slightly larger aircraft, having zoomed in and looked at it i can tell you its a KC135 Stratotanker ( A full sized airliner [Boeing 707] converted to inflight re--fuelling operations )

Just looked at the pic again, right at the SW edge of it you can see a line of Tornado GR's, which is what i work on. This pic was actuallly taken during a quiet period of operations it seems as there are spare slots along the flight line, normally they are all full to bursting.

i think i can see my house

I can see your mum

Finally got round to uploading the pics from my digicam.

The pics in this set are all taken from a Lockheed L1011 Tristar while crossing the atlantic from UK -> Azores -> Bangor, Maine. The Tristar was providing inflight refueling support to the fleet of Tornado GR4/4A`s.

























Also took some video`s at the same time. Be warned these are quite large, but worth watching, if you like that kind of thing!

http://buster.infernal-covenant.org/cam ... ure276.avi
http://buster.infernal-covenant.org/cam ... ure277.avi
http://buster.infernal-covenant.org/cam ... ure278.avi
http://buster.infernal-covenant.org/cam ... ure279.avi
http://buster.infernal-covenant.org/cam ... ure280.avi

buster some plane just collided with your wing in last pic, u ded

rofl

Calix wrote:buster some plane just collided with your wing in last pic, u ded

Look in the 3rd last pic, all 3 are way closer there, infact looking at them all 3 are closer than the 1 you say has hit the wing. I spoke to the pilots after that particular flight, they said they had to stay that close or they`d loose sight of the Tristar. You can kinda understand it looking at the density of the cloud. They actually use the wing tip of the Tristar to navigate of, saves them plotting their own course across the Atlantic I guess.

Stick em on a carrier and sail across the atlantic

I still want more photos of Ally McCoist.

Omg cant believe I missed the ally mccoist picture.

For you angus,


team best

The plane photos rox