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Went to Hendon yesterday with three friends and despite the 560 mile round trip it was a memorable day and a lot of fun.


As those of you who have previously visited will know, the lighting conditions in some areas make photography a challenge but I done my best with what limited photography skills I have.

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Yeah, it's pretty dark in the main hanger, isn't it? :) Still, the WW1 shed is nice and bright..:03:

Looks like you were there on a busy day. We went last year on a bright, crisp December morning and almost had the place to ourselves all day.

Yeah it was quite busy so I decided not to use my tripod which would have helped me overcome the poor lighting conditions.

Half term...you should have seen it over at the Excel center...made Bank at rush hour look tame in parts. :doh:

LOL...I'd have run them over with my wheelchair :)

Very nice photos as always, Jim. :woot:

Nice shoots given the conditions.

I notice that the Hunter has Arabic lettering on an old Jordanian Hunter I am guessing so by the pattern.I wonder if it was assigned to a RAF unit then transferred to RJAF unit then re-acquired as a static display.


I was looking at Google earth the other at day my old training base Sheppard AFB Texas I left there long ago in 1995 and came back later for a week for an NCO course.Anyway the dorms there where long in the tooth even in the 90's they had no air conditioning in Texas mind you and I was there in the summer time in 1995.

On each corner they had a static display my squadron had an F-105 the rest where other "century series" jets anyway they tore down the old dorms and the new ones are not on the old footprints but rather a few hundred yards away so now the old static displays are sitting on empty corners with a large open area between them and any other structure it looks a bit funny from the Google earth point of view.

I found out a few years ago that the F-105 on display at Sheppard AFB flew several hundred missions during Vietnam over North Vietnam and also Laos.

Nice, Jim. I looked last night but didn't see the Bloodhound until this morning? Great memories of visits to North Cotes just a few miles down the coast, and to the Bloodhound HQ at West Raynham.

Nice photos Jim lad :salute::yep:

Plenty more to come.....I'm trying to give anyone that views them the impression they were there.

OI! you never told me, not that im hurt or anything :wah:
Ah well.... another time :)

Edit: oh damn - actually you did tell me, I just saw the PM again, but totally forgotyou set the date.... Sorry Jim, I was actually looking forward to it and everything :(

No problem F, if I'd had your mobile I'd have rang you the night before or whilst enroute.

Bit of a shame but there will be other opportunities in the future mate :cool:

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Nice shots :)

Just wait until I post POS...and that was in one of the darkest areas :sunny: