Two for the price of one, the French AF Rafale gets airborne for its display at RIAT 2012 whilst an RAF C-17 can be seen getting airborne from nearby RAF Brize Norton in the background
"Trek 32" pulls hard into the valley after his wingman in awful weather conditions, creating ribbons and its own cloud during a low level training sortie in LFA 7
This 25 Squadron Tornado F3 had took the wire earlier in the week when it arrived at RAF Valley with a hydraulics failure, seen here lining up to depart back to RAF Leeming as "Javelin 25"
A 54 Squadron Jaguar taxies onto runway 22 as part of a four ship for departure on a sortie during the Lonecat 2004 exercise, the jet and base are now a long distant memory
A 16(R) Squadron Jaguar taxies onto runway 22 as part of a four ship for departure on a sortie during the Lonecat 2004 exercise, the jet and base are now a long distant memory
A 17(R) Squadron 'Black Knights' Typhoon OEU F2 gets airborne after static display at the 2006 Waddington Airshow. 17(R) stand down on Typhoon in April 2013 to become the RAF F-35 OEU in the USA later in the year
"Monkey 2" A 17(R) Sqdn Typhoon through LFA7 in really poor weather shortly before a heavy thunderstorm. 17(R) Sqdn "The Black Knights" will disband as the Typhoon OEU on the 17th April 2013.
"Monkey 1" A 17(R) Sqdn Typhoon through LFA7 in really poor weather shortly before a heavy thunderstorm. 17(R) Sqdn "The Black Knights" will disband as the Typhoon OEU on the 17th April 2013.
Seen during much happier times for the British Harrier. The BAe prototype Harrier GR Mk9 turns on the active for a test flight, hard to believe that just six years later the UK scrapped its Harrier fleet, some eight years early.
One of the BAe trials fleet Harrier GR.7's gets airborne form Warton, this jet was sold to the USMC and is in use as a spares source at MCAS Cherry Point