Out on a Shout
Today I was fortunate enough to be invited out onto the Shoreham Harbour Lifeboat for a trip down the coast to Brighton for a gathering of crews from Brighton, Shoreham and Newhaven to celebrate Christmas and the New Year. Unfortunately the trip had to be delayed as during preparations for launch the crew got a shout and had to launch to assist a Dutch fisherman who had suffered an injury and required airlifting to hospital.
After providing assistance the crew returned and made the short journey down the coast to Brighton, with an escort by the Brighton Lifeboat for part of the journey. This provided a chance to take a few photos of their (relatively) new Class 85 Atlantic Lifeboat Random Harvest which the station received in September.
Brighton's new Atlantic 85 class lifeboat, named Random Harvest surges through waves off the coast of Brighton.
I have only had time to process a handful of images from today so far, but I hope to have them uploaded to my "On Exercise with the Shoreham Harbour Lifeboat" gallery very shortly.
Nightshoot
Last night I attended my last planned aviation event of the year. I went up to North Weald to visit Weald Aviation's "Flight Night" Nightshoot. This is the first shot from the night for now, I will be posting more shortly.
The Kennet Aviation Skyraider runs up to full power in front of a crowd of photographers during the Weald Aviation "Flight Night" Nightshoot held at North Weald.
Returning to Roost
A brace of Spitfires roll out from their landing at Duxford after the end of their display at the 2011 Duxford Airshow.
The 2011 Duxford Airshow featured a 7 ship Spitfire scramble and display to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the first flight of the Spitfire prototype K5054 at Eastleigh Aerodrome in Hampshire.
Goodwood Revival
A Supermarine Spitfire FR14E performs a display at the first day of the 2011 Goodwood Revival held at Goodwood Aerodrome. Goodwood Aerodrome was formally known as RAF Westhampnett during WWII when Spitfires were based on the airfield during its time as a satelite station to RAF Tangmere.
Climb
An F-15E Strike Eagle clears the runway during the September Airshow at IWM Duxford, after a low overshoot, with plenty of afterburner and vapour forming over the upper surfaces of the wing.
This was its final manuvere of the display before it returned to RAF Lakenheath where this F-15E is based as part of the USAFs 48th Fighter Wing (Statue of Liberty Wing).