RAF/USAF Alconbury
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there is a trick to avoid him !!! and he can't do a thing !! lol
i drove along the runway too
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Amazing as always Hal, looks bloody brilliant 
tigger2
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Our photos from the day are fairy similar (mine not technically as good however!), so I'll add a couple which I hope extend the coverage and complement what Hal has already posted rather than duplicate things.
Engine testing building
A-10 pilots names (same ops building as the warthog graphic shown by Hal):
Runway threshold lighting:
Tab-Vee door motor:
Tab-Vee air-con control panel
Building 4000, U2 readyness shed. This is a seriously cool door mechanism - think horizontal bi-fold door:
Rear view (taken from the earth banking round the magic mountain)
Not posting my arty vent shots so another view of "Oh Johnnie"
Better stop before I get carried away. Took a lot of photos despite the light being dismal and people often getting in the way!
Oh, one extra....we were there at 11:00 on the 11th of November and observed the two minute silence in front of the original watch office:
Engine testing building
A-10 pilots names (same ops building as the warthog graphic shown by Hal):
Runway threshold lighting:
Tab-Vee door motor:
Tab-Vee air-con control panel
Building 4000, U2 readyness shed. This is a seriously cool door mechanism - think horizontal bi-fold door:
Rear view (taken from the earth banking round the magic mountain)
Not posting my arty vent shots so another view of "Oh Johnnie"
Better stop before I get carried away. Took a lot of photos despite the light being dismal and people often getting in the way!
Oh, one extra....we were there at 11:00 on the 11th of November and observed the two minute silence in front of the original watch office:
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You got a lot of stuff I missed, nice one...particularly the Hush House....my ignorance/my loss!
krela
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I still hate A-10s. Love the photos. Thanks.
Love the photos. Thanks.
I still hate A-10s.
Dont be mean to the old Warthog - it cant help being ugly
krela
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I actually think they look pretty cool. They SOUND ugly though.
I still hate A-10s.
Ah, the A10. If ever a plane looked like it had been put together by a 3 year old out of stuff stuck down the back of Curtis Le May's sofa......
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I actually think they look pretty cool. They SOUND ugly though.
Agree there - they sound more like an airliner than a ground attack aircraft.
Here just for you - A-10's at Lakenheath last year
I love the two pieces of artwork... maybe its because it adds the human element to the buildings/structures?
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Great photos.
tigger2
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A couple more photos from Alconbury from a brief visit today.
Building 73 was one of the training sections. Central corridor with classrooms on each side.
Typical classroom
A bit more artwork
Building 73 was one of the training sections. Central corridor with classrooms on each side.
Typical classroom
A bit more artwork
Good stuff there dude
