Photographs from RAF Leeming

[F3Hadlow]

Some photos I have taken at Leeming over the last year and a half.
http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/ukplanephotos/F3jun3.jpg
http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/ukplanephotos/AmF31.jpg
http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/ukplanephotos/hercland3.jpg
http://mysite.freeserve.com/ukplanephotos/F3miss1.jpg http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/ukplanephotos/GRjun2.jpg
http://mysite.freeserve.com/ukplanephotos/FFF32.jpg
http://mysite.freeserve.com/ukplanephotos/MHs.jpg
http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/ukplanephotos/TonkkaXA1.jpg
http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/ukplanephotos/TonkkaUl1.jpg
http://www.aircraftinaction.co.uk/Typ4.jpg
http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/ukplanephotos/lifts2.jpg

[Fake Sealion]

You are to be congratulated on posting a collection of superb images.
Particularly like to first one......echoes of a standard "PR" highly posed Air to Air job.....but with a leafy branch in the foreground !!!

Well done

FS

From South of the Vale

[andrewman]

Very very nice photos. I might spend a day at Leeming later this month, as it is one fo the few RAF bases I have not been to yet.

[Toddington Ted]

F3Hadlow - Excellent stuff! Thanks for posting them!:ok:

[AllTrimDoubt]

Why no Grobs? Surely the AEF is part of the Station?

[antipodean alligator]

Congrats - You captured an F-3 with Tanks on! A most rare find As is the GR sans Jugs!

[Smoketoomuch]

Nice pics.
Anyone care to tell a humble civvy what the GR [pic 5] has hanging off the wings?
I can see the tanks, and is that a TIALD pod on the fuselage? That leaves 4 about which I have no clue.
Of course if you could tell me but then have to kill me.... I'll happily remain blissfully ignorant :)

[Rhino power]

The outer-wing stations on the GR.4 in question are occupied by - IIRC - BOZ-107 chaff/flare dispenser(right wing) and Skyshadow ECM pod(left wing).

Regards, RP.

[Stuff]

Smoketoomuch - the other pod on the underfuselage station is a CBLS which is used to carry practice bombs.

The long thing above the tank on the wing is a sidewinder launcher rail (minus missile)

[STANDTO]

Many years ago, I remember a UAS chap at St Athan videoing his mate doing aerobatics in a Bulldog. There was a Phantom taxiiing in the background. I think he was taken to Siberia to work in the mines. How times have changed.

Quite appropriate for an image of a Typhoon to be on a website called www. aircraft inaction.com - or have I just misread that?

Joking aside, really nice photos, which will go into my research bank for future painting projects

[F3Hadlow]

Thanks everyone :) I do enjoy visiting Leeming when i can!
Why no Grobs? Surely the AEF is part of the Station?
And so are the 100 Sqn Hawks. So here are some pics of both squadrons
http://www.aircraftinaction.co.uk/Lme1.jpg
http://www.aircraftinaction.co.uk/Lme8.jpg
http://www.aircraftinaction.co.uk/Lme3.jpg
http://www.aircraftinaction.co.uk/Lme4.jpg
http://www.aircraftinaction.co.uk/Lme2.jpg
http://www.aircraftinaction.co.uk/Lme6.jpg
http://www.aircraftinaction.co.uk/Lme7.jpg
http://www.aircraftinaction.co.uk/Lme5.jpg

[LXGB]

Quality piccies, nice website!

Cheers,
LXGB
:ok:

[chromate]

That first picture of the hawk just looks so nice! I love seeing the black hawks against a stormy sky. Somehow, it just "works".

Just out of interest, what is that stuff that looks like masking tape in a cross that I often see on the top of helmets?

[Fake Sealion]

Chromate

Military aircrew have light reflective tape on their flying helmets.......have done for at least 25 yrs now. That it what you see in the piccies.

FS

[F3Hadlow]

Thanks for that :O Leeming isn't the best known base so its nice to give it a little bit of showing.

[Zoom]

Very nice indeed - well framed, perfectly focused. Digital or celluloid?

[F3Hadlow]

Thanks. The photos were taken using a Canon EOS10d which is of course digital.

[Navaleye]

F3Hadlow, how to you find the Canon for shutter-lag?

[Mikehegland]

OMG .......please.......are you guys for real...?

Ooops, I bit....sorry

[Basil]

Excellent pix!

. . . and also at Leeming, some time ago, Basil further reduces his chances of sampling the Rhosneigr nightlife by attempting to board from the wrong side :O

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v233/Capn_Basil/Leeming66copy.jpg

[jumpseater]

What size/speed lens are you using?