Mildenhall 24-3-11, CV-22 Ospreys and others

[Sickbag_andy]

I visited Mildenhall twice today to try to see the Ospreys, firstly at lunch time to see if I could glean any info about the arrival of the remaining 2 ospreys and was told that they were expected around 5pm so after work I dropped in for an hour or so only ot find out at around 5.30 that they weren’t coming. Anyway I still took quite a few pics and these are a few of them

First of all the 2 ospreys that arrived yesterday evening (in the dark) unfortunately they weren’t parked in the best of places so the background is a bit grot.








Then a few other bits , there were 2 C.5s in:
This one from the New York Air Guard with Stewart on the fin, unfortunately a light pole got in the way


And this one with Travis on the tail



This local C.130 took off and went off somewhere or other


Then this one departed a little later and was still doing circuits when I left





This visiting KC.135 departed , from the tail and nose details it appeared to be from the UTAH ANG , 151st ARW



Then just as I was leaving I noticed this Kallita 747going downwind so I turned back and got these shots of it landing

[Gaz]

Nice pics Andy!

[Sploosher]

Nice pics Andy, never seen the CV22 before...............

[Dan4th]

Thank You SBA!

I haven't ever seen an Osprey, except for the
ones with feathers......

Dan4th

[Kermit]

Great pics! Those tiltrotor aircraft must be pretty high up in the weird and wonderful list, shame I cant get there tomorrow
i d love tosee them take off, havent been able to track down any videoclip anywhere

[Dan4th]

[Xplumberlives]

Cheers D4th, I presume the guy with the camera was new to the game!

[Mayfly]

Strange things aren't they!! obviously can do what is required of them tho'

thanks SBA & D4th

[Jigsaw]

Thanks for that guys

[Sploosher]

Cheers D4th, I presume the guy with the camera was new to the game!

Looks like a job for Cluney I think..................

[Dan4th]

This is quite good except for the
video quality:::::::::::::



D.

[Olicat]

Nice shots