Another day in paradise (Kirkwall Airport)

Kinloss in July

A good friend of mine told me that he was fed up of bits and bobs so I thought it was time to get some pictures together and type a new entry.  I have so many pictures from Orkney I need to sort, I decided to post a few of the photos I took at the start of my summer holiday.

My wife is from Forres in Morayshire which is just a stones throw from RAF Kinloss, home of 120 Sqn · 201 Sqn · 42(R).

We had a couple of days prior to heading down south so when I had a couple of hours spare, I got dropped off at the end of the runway hoping to get some pictures.  2 hours elapsed and nothing happened other than the weather became worse and I thought about giving up when there was the sound of a number of jet engines.

The next 20 minutes or so, varied from bright sunshine to torrential rain as the photos will show but I am well happy with some of the pictures so I thought I would share  a few with you.  It is perfectly obvious what the aircraft are and I have listed all the numbers, so if you want more info, just type the number into google.

Hope you like them.

Starting off with Typhoon ZJ803

Typhoon ZJ814

Typhoon ZJ833

Typhoon ZJ941

Then came the big boys, first of all XV231 doing a touch and go followed by a better close up, then ZH102 an E3 sentry going over my head

To be continued........

Finally got back to the computer, my photos are piling up so thought I would try and finish this bit off. Next we had ZJ690, a Sentinel R1

The next 4 are are Cobham Falcons

Then it was time for the Hawks XX339, 255 and 332

Back to the Typhoons, first ZJ815

Twins?

ZG500 Harrier

ZG507

More twins

ZG835 Typhoon sneaked in

Harriers galore ZG862, ZH661, ZD468, ZG558, ZH663 and ZG510

The last 4 Typhoons of the day ZJ912, ZJ830, ZJ914 and ZJ941

And this one wasn't playing, lined up, revved up and returned to base broken ZH661

Thats it for now, back to Kirkwall for the next lot and off to Leuchars

Till next time

Neil

as always...

16:02, 28 August 2009 .. Posted by jumpseat

A pleasure to read your posts Niel.

Nice military stuff!