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| Unloading from the ferry in Puttgarden, Germany, when all of a sudden the queue is stopped and this helicopter swoops in from behind the treetops! | It's a Bundespolizei Eurocopter 135... and it's landing right in front of the queue! | In less than three minutes' time the police helicopter took off again and departed. I'm not sure if they picked someone up, as there were large trucks blocking the view ahead and the police got everything done very quickly. |
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| In England 3 days later - powered paragliders above Winchelsea Beach, East Sussex | ||
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| An RC glider at Harting Down, West Sussex... | ||
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| ...and the owner of said glider | A Sea King helicopter passing above the same hill only minutes later | The former location of Holmsley South Airfield in New Forest, Hampshire. The grass field is all that's left - part of the airfield has had a camping site built over it. |
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| A Raytheon Sentinel passes by, on approach to another airfield nearby | An old biplane seen above Salisbury, Wiltshire... at first glance it looked like a Stampe SV-4, but it must have actually been a Tiger Moth enroute to the Queen's Birthday Flight at nearby RAF Halton on the following day (see other gallery for more shots) | |
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| Departing traffic at the hellhole of an airport known as London Stansted. We were picking up one of my two brothers, who had arrived for a week's visit to England. Parking was impossible to find, and the pickup area was barricaded! | Harrier jump jet in front of a collection of military gear in Norfolk | A week later my brother flew back to Finland in a Ryanair jet like this one (I wasn't able to photograph the actual plane, thanks to the lack of functional parking system at Stansted) |
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| RAF Mildenhall in Suffolk, where a C-130 Hercules is about to depart. Photo taken from a campsite just across the fence from the airbase. | The Hercules takes off | Another one taxiing on the runway... |
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| ...and yet another one arriving only four minutes later | A KC-135 Stratotanker parked at the airbase | |
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| Sandsend, Yorkshire, where an RAF Tucano trainer is flying overhead | A random SAS jet landing in Middlesbrough... | |
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| ...and a BMI one in Edinburgh | Royal Navy Sea King just above the rooftops of Ayr, Scotland | Another Shorts Tucano trainer, this time spotted above Loch Ken in Galloway Forest |