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Most of the planes from today's Queen's birthday flypast in London when they flew over where I live:
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The first of these pairs of photos (well all except for the one right at the bottom where I wasn't quick enough for a clear second shot) were taken as the planes came towards us, the second either almost overhead or as they headed away. It's a bit of challenge to take photos of planes like this from our back garden but you wouldn't get an uncluttered view/sky if you went down the road as phone lines etc would get in the way.
Below are a pair of VC-10 air-to-air refueling tankers, what we frequently get flying over on their way into Brize Norton but not with the refueling rigs out.
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Only the one shot of the Red Arrows worked out:
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The first of these pairs of photos (well all except for the one right at the bottom where I wasn't quick enough for a clear second shot) were taken as the planes came towards us, the second either almost overhead or as they headed away. It's a bit of challenge to take photos of planes like this from our back garden but you wouldn't get an uncluttered view/sky if you went down the road as phone lines etc would get in the way.
Below are a pair of VC-10 air-to-air refueling tankers, what we frequently get flying over on their way into Brize Norton but not with the refueling rigs out.
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Only the one shot of the Red Arrows worked out:
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We waited five minutes, looking eastwards and me listening (over the sound of traffic and birds) for anything that could be planes. Dad went back indoors to start serving up lunch then I heard planes so I rapped on the kitchen window and he and Mum came out into the backgarden just in time for the first four planes to appear over the roof. After the first group disappeared to the west sure enough the next pair appeared from the east and so on. The series of planes lasted less than four minutes and there was just enough time from taking the first photo for my camera to save that then me to turn, track the planes through the camera as they went overhead and take the second - well except for the Red Arrows at the end where I was too slow with the second shot and got a lovely shot of shed roof with planes in the background.
Over lunch Dad admitted he'd seen some of the fighters flying this morning. We wouldn't have taken any notice of the VC-10s since they're based at Brize and see them day in, day out. Living here we don't take too much notice of the noise of the planes, there's not usually that many (not like a big commercial airport) but we do notice sometimes - couldn't exactly miss Concorde back in the 1970's when they were training pilots around here or the huge Russian transporter planes flying across the middle of the night a few years back.
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