Battle of Britain At Home Day - RAF Leuchars

rpstewart · 14 Sep 2009 at 17:58

Just back from the annual Battle of Britian At Home Day airshow at RAF Leuchars in Fife. The weather was, for once, superb although shooting into the sun is never easy....

XH558 on finals

Belgian F16 practice

Sore neck from this one but worth it!

Dutch F16

DJ_Switch · 14 Sep 2009 at 18:37

Cheers for sticking a few up. I was gutted I couldn't make it, had the joys of flat viewings instead.

Derek W · 14 Sep 2009 at 19:03

dust speck on the first one but as above glad someone made it to the airshow. did you get stuck in the 4 hr delay getting back out?

JaffaJedi · 14 Sep 2009 at 20:46

It took us two and a half ours to get out!!

The show was great but the traffic pfft what a shambles.

rpstewart can I ask what camera and lense you used for those shots?

rpstewart · 14 Sep 2009 at 22:03

Derek W said:
did you get stuck in the 4 hr delay getting back out?

No, the joys of parking in one of the base office car parks

Stovies said:
It took us two and a half ours to get out!!
rpstewart can I ask what camera and lense you used for those shots?

Canon 1DMkII & 100-400L for all 4.

JaffaJedi · 14 Sep 2009 at 22:40

Office car park! luck you

Great shots btw.

Shame the Chinook had a problem, as its always an amazing display from it.

btw have you rotated the last shot? as I think all the aircraft were landing left to right from the crowd. Unless you were airside of course

rpstewart · 14 Sep 2009 at 22:56

Stovies said:
btw have you rotated the last shot? as I think all the aircraft were landing left to right from the crowd. Unless you were airside of course

No rotation. The shot was taken from in front of the old Q shed at the far right of the display line.

timaloy · 14 Sep 2009 at 23:10

good pics ,love this stuff

iGiDK · 15 Sep 2009 at 13:12

Nice series, it was quite difficult shooting into the sun this year (similar conditions to 2006)

We were quite lucky getting out, car park 3 was totalyl gridlocked at about 4.30, we sat for a while and then weaved through the car park to get in a position to escape when the other exit opened at ~5pm after the display ended (you have to cross the end of the runway so it's closed off while planes are flying...)

Was back in Crail for 5.45