Recent Events in Scotland

Lakenheath F-15 with undercarriage problem

June 29th 2009, 08:31 CET
redbearing; 67x

A Lakenheath based F-15 Eagle made an emergency landing at its base when it developed an undercarriage problem. The aircraft flew out over The Wash, (sea between Norfolk & Lincolnshire) where it dumped a quantity of fuel before landing without incident.

Kemble Air Show 2009.

June 22nd 2009, 17:26 CET
ady, David James Clelford, Tony Strother, Trevor Reoch; 372x

2009's airshow at Kemble was successfully changed to an all weekend show, from the traditional Sunday "Fathers Day" one day event. All in all the layout of the static areas was much better than last year with photographic access to all aircraft on the southside. Unfortunately due to operational commitments the C-17 did not make the show, but this is understandable. There was still plenty on offer though, with the likes of the Sea Vixen, Vulcan and Typhoon, just to name a few. Also some great displays from the Reds, Yakovlevs, Team Guinot and the marvelous Swift Glider Team. Even the USAF joined us this year with a flypast with the Boeing KC-135R.After what was forecast as a glorious weekend, the weather did not play ball and we were reduced to just a few glimpses of the sun.Congratulations to the Kemble team for giving us another great show!!

Cosford Airshow - The Vulcan Effect

June 18th 2009, 21:24 CET
Peter Reoch, Trevor Reoch; 245x

Trevor Reoch attended this years air show at Cosford and has submitted this report. Sunday 14th June 2009 saw the annual Airshow at RAF Cosford, this was the first of 3 RAF shows for the 2009 season and its star attraction was the restored Vulcan B2 Bomber! The Vulcan effect, well the show was a sellout with crowds estimated to exceed 58200 and the gates closing to the public at 13.30 hours due to crowding.Other attractions at the show from the RAF;Eurofighter Typhoon, Chinook, King Air, Hawk display, Red Arrows and the BBMF.Other teams included;RN Black Cats, Army Blue Eagles, The Yakolov's, Turbulent display team, and the the Blades. Other participants included, Scandinavian Historic Flight P51 Mustang a private Spitfire in welsh colours and the ex RAF Vampire.The show was an outstanding success, but undoubtedly the star was Vulvan XH558 (G-VLCN), personally I have never seen an entire airshow crowd stand to view a flying aircraft before Cosford 2009.

2009 AeroExpo at Wycombe Air Park

June 17th 2009, 05:56 CET
Terry Fletcher; 138x

On display at this years AeroExpo at Wycombe Air Park is Qatar registered Diamond Star A7-DSM. The aircraft made a three day flight from Doha to Booker for the Exhibition.A new venture for the Tecnam company is a twin engine aircraft, the Tecnam P2006TBoth aircraft were photographed by Terry Fletcher

Emergency landing at RAF Lyneham.

May 17th 2009, 20:17 CET
David James Clelford, Rick Ingham; 917x

On Sunday the 17th of May, an Airlift International Douglas DC-8 freighter departed RAF Lyneham at 1410 local time. Shortly after departure the pilot reported a problem with the lefthand main landing gear. After flying above Cirencester for 20 minutes, she appeared on approach for runway 24 at 1448 local time. Air traffic control reported 9G-RAC was to make a state 2 emergency landing. Just to make things more interesting this was to happen in a gusty 35 knot cross wind. She landed safely and then had the problem checked out, which turned out to be a faulty indicator, before finally departing at 1645 local.

Cosford's MH53

May 16th 2009, 17:40 CET
Trevor Reoch; 198x

Gulf Air's first Boeing 777

March 14th 2009, 12:38 CET
Kai Benziulla; 846x

Gulf Air has leased it's first Boeing 777-35ER from Jet Airways.AP member, Kai Benziulla, photographed the aircraft on its second day of operations into London - Heathrow.

BA's Comic Relief Red Noses

March 9th 2009, 20:39 CET
Martin Third, Robert Pittuck, Speedpics, Tony Marlow, Trevor Reoch; 798x

British Airways has changed a couple of the Aircraft's Nose cone's to Red in response to this years Comic Relief Appeal. BA Comic Relief Special Livery, first seen flying on 5th March 2009.

Air Asia X ready to launch London service

March 7th 2009, 11:52 CET
chaity, Mir ZafriZ, Moka; 421x

Air Asia X has had thier new addition to the fleet repainted roughly a month after delivery. The Airbus A340 arrived all white from Canada in february routing via Stansted which incidently will be the London destination Air Asia X will start flying to shortly.Inugural flight will be taking place on March 11th from Kuala Lumpur til London Stansted.

Delta Air Lines' first A330-300

February 5th 2009, 21:23 CET
Spencer Wilmot; 661x

Delta Air Lines' first A330-300 is seen on a cracking winters day lifting off out of Heathrow after recently being painted into the Delta livery, prior to this it sported the Northwest Airlines livery for a good few years. But due to the merger of Delta and Northwest ... the latter of the two companys has started to have its fleet painted into the current Delta livery.Spencer Wilmot was on hand to catch the departure out of London Heathrow.