Farnborough 2010

[^^Gord^^]

The weather when the F/A-18F Super Hornet flew at RIAT was aweful and I ended up with nothing usable so I decided to go to Farnborough on the Friday to have another crack at it.

It also meant I could catch the BAE Systems Typhoon flying with it's weapons load.

A few more photos on my site... http://www.fast-air.co.uk/Farnborough-Air-Show-2010.php

 

[^^Gord^^]

The Typhoon has a multirole load out. You've picked up on the Precision Guided Munitions (PGMs) but if you look carefully you can see the air to air stuff as well.....

Red arrows are 4 x AIM-120 AMRAAMs - Beyond Visual Range (BVR) air-to-air missiles.

Yellow arrows are 2 x AIM-132 ASRAAMs - short range heating seeking (IR) air-to-air missiles.

 

[^^Gord^^]

Indeed! With that load out he can fight his way to the target, hit multiple ground targets, dump the now empty drop tanks and then fight his way out on internal fuel.

Yes, the fuel tanks are removable. It can have the two wing tanks, the centre tank, the two wing tanks and the centre tank or none at all fitted. They can alos be jettisoned at any time including whilst supersonic.

The A2A missiles are held on with a C style clamp. When they are fired the clamps release and it will fall away from the aircraft before the rocket motor fires and it rapidly reaches Mach 4.

 

[^^Gord^^]

Some of my pics here: http://www.doufos.co.uk/lightroom/farn2010/

By no means anywhere near as nice as Gord's, but I think they are ok for the light conditions and a Canon 55-250IS

You've done well but next time you need to have a go at getting some rotor / prop blur. Give 1/250s a go.

Loving your work Gord. Showed your website to a colleage of mine who love's his combat aircraft and he was in heaven. Recommended you goto Greece and get some shots of their planes

Greece isn't high on my list of places to go with a camera and a radio scanner!

are you on flickr Gordon ?

No, flickr has never really appealed to me.