Mach Loop Pictures: Telegraph.co.uk

[Herc-u-lease]

All,

Now that the Times has started charging a subscription the Telegraph is my favourite time killer. I'm sure some of these pics belong to fellow ppruners. No sight of the Mach Loop comedian picture though:confused:

RAF aircraft fly low through the Dinas Pass, known as the Mach Loop, in Snowdonia, Wales - Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/picturegalleries/7861137/RAF-aircraft-fly-low-through-the-Dinas-Pass-known-as-the-Mach-Loop-in-Snowdonia-Wales.html)

H-u-L

[Pom Pax]

If some of these pics belong to fellow ppruners then they save the best to post here!
Thanks Happy Snappers.

[Sook]

What's a Tucana!

[Pontius Navigator]

Then looked at the Biggin Hill air fare. Excellent! The one of the crowd scene reminds me why I don't go to air shows.

Except as the organiser, participant, or in a corporate marquee :}

[TEEEJ]

Pom Pax,

Nearly a thousand images from the Mach Loop on the following search link.

Photo Search Results | Airliners.net (http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.search?placesearch=Off-Airport+-+Machynlleth+Loop+area&distinct_entry=true&page=1&page_limit=120&sid=fbe9c810c57ea48cc74dfbde69d414cd&sort_order=photo_id+desc&thumbnails=)

297 images from the Lake District.

Photo Search Results | Airliners.net (http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.search?placesearch=Off-Airport+-+Cumbria&distinct_entry=true&page=1&page_limit=120&sid=d2b89671160195a712a12e69398181bc&sort_order=photo_id+desc&thumbnails=)

Please remember if you are going to post low level images then 850 wide maximum on PPRuNe.

http://www.pprune.org/spectators-balcony-spotters-corner/410931-new-sizes-your-pics.html

Thanks

TJ

[Jimmy Macintosh]

The clown in image 5 is waving. I thought the RAF were professional fliers. :}

[Pontius Navigator]

Definitely not waving. It is trying to hide something from the photogs.

The copilot of an Il38 did exactly the same when we tried to photograph is sarnis.

These photogs hanging off the side of mountains are a threat to themselves and any sheep they might fall on if the rope breaks.

[Pontius Navigator]

neil, I think you bit. Didn't you notice the :}

:ok:

[vecvechookattack]

Ah but PN,....that took an hour.... surely Jimmy could do better than that....

[jumpseater]

As Teej says there are some good places to be found, only problem is that publicity like this from the redtops are a bit of a two edged sword. There may be a rise in the number of sheep frightners and gate left openers racing to the hills.

Still, heres a Lakentheath based F18 I got last year
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c351/refshots/_B6O2627.jpg

[Pontius Navigator]

Still, heres a Lakentheath based F18 I got last year
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c351/refshots/_B6O2627.jpg

Nice pic, aircraft recce not your thing though?

[Load Toad]

Is it firing off chemtrails from its wings?

[Roadster280]

Wouldn't it have been an F/A-18 ? :E

[TEEEJ]

Load Toad wrote

Is it firing off chemtrails from its wings?

The chemtrail nuts have made a video of the Lakenheath F-15s spraying in the UK. You really couldn't make it up! :ugh:

YouTube - LORD OF THE RING (F-15's + CHEMTRAILS) (HD) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6TWxQEME04)

TJ

[x213a]

That's one hell of a fast packed lunch!

[MostlyHarmless]

Guess ChemOps are declass / in the open now - I assume that's why they're not restricted to night ops any more. Are we still using BL5HT? God, that stunk!

[Pontius Navigator]

Are we still using BL5HT? God, that stunk!

Nimrod crews used to buy their own repellent as the issue stuff didn't work.

[vecvechookattack]

We used to load aircraft with a chem compound known as OC 28557448 ..... Horrid stuff.... lots of PPE required before using that stuff

[Pontius Navigator]

Google is your friend:

i think he was right about the code : *#28557448# ( *#bUlLsH*t )

[MostlyHarmless]

Spoilsport :E

[Navy_Adversary]

I haven't been able to access 'lowfly.net' for about a week, anyone know if it is anything at all to do with the recent publicity in the National press?

[Dan Gerous]

NA, lowfly :yuk: (and warplane), have restricted access to their sites in a vain attempt to stop this sort of pic being posted and seen by the wider media. Considering they have been the main cause of this and other such incidents, it's a case of horses and stable doors.

[Clockwork Mouse]

Try the military aircraft forum on airshows.co.uk. Amazing stuff.
Why is this referred to as an incident and treated as though either side had done something wrong? Massive over reaction. Long may our brave lads and lasses practise their low flying skills in our hills and valleys, and long may the devoted spotters climb up into the kuds to photograph them with spectacular results.

[TEEEJ]

NA,

See posts by Martinc ref lowfly

FighterControl • Home to the Military Aviation Enthusiast • View topic - No Mach Loop for RAF? (http://www.fightercontrol.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=287&t=13940)

FighterControl • Home to the Military Aviation Enthusiast • View topic - No Mach Loop for RAF? (http://www.fightercontrol.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=287&t=13940&start=20)

TJ

[mike-wsm]

For anyone puzzled by the allusion to the 'Mach Loop' it is an RAF training route which starts at Machynlleth and goes through many of the valleys in north Wales, including Dinas Pass.

The guy waving is of course the instructor, not the pilot.

Trust the Jellygraph to get it all wrong yet again!

[moosemaster]

Just so it's said out loud (so to speak), and so that we educate, as oppose to mock.

Jumpseater, the aircraft in your photo is/was an F15.

An F18 (F/A18) does not have "vertical" fins.

An F18 on the left, and your image (An F15) on the right. (Still a VERY good picture though.
http://www.onemarinesview.com/one_marines_view/images/2007/09/18/f18a.jpg http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c351/refshots/_B6O2627.jpg

[jumpseater]

MM
Just so it's said out loud (so to speak), and so that we educate, as oppose to mock.

Jumpseater, the aircraft in your photo is/was an F15.



http://i717.photobucket.com/albums/ww173/prestonjjrtr/Winter/SmileyWinterIceFishing.gif

Ta for that, do the F18's not operate out of Lakentheath then? ...

20 minutes and two weeks, no wonder the fishing industries in such a parlous state ... :ooh:

[Mactlsm1]

jumpseater -
F18s are operated by the USN and the US Marines, the USAF does not have any of them. The F15s do operate out of Lakenheath.

Mac

[Tashengurt]

This is getting painful now. :ugh:

[cornish-stormrider]

ooh ooh ooh, lets keep up this chemtrails thing.

I love a good conspiracy - I reckon the truth is some scientist somewhere found that breathing in air contaminated by say OX26 at clse range for any period of time was found to induce certain illnesses - Wibble.

Then said scientist wonders about how much OX 26 is pumped into the atmosphere per day and then gives you your pollution levels.

Tinfoil and armadillo hatted one gets to read about this, looks up and sees a fast moving zepplin with Contrails and thinks they are spraying chemicals to control me.

Put theory on tinterweb and robert is thy mothers brother.

Oh, sh*t. A black omeg...........