Tue Sep 19, 2017 7:03 pm
#1559733
At Portsmouth harbour UK. A favourite of mine; such a lot going on, but also busy and surrounded by allocated airspace. I was keen to see the new arrival HMS Queen Elizabeth currently being kitted out and set to work.
I, having spent some weeks assisting with telemetry for Sea Harrier trials on the carrier HMS Hermes as an RAe Bedford apprentice years back, was interested to see the little boaty Mcboatface.
The radar head was revolving and who knows maybe weapon systems were alarming and tracking me as an 'incoming'; in my fibreglass 'stealth fighter'.
Exercises werescheduled according to SkyD NOTAMs but when I enquired of Solent Radar for more details they said it was a SD error (sure hope they were right). Hey I used the new listening squawk!
DSC01404 (1) by Graeme Bird, on Flickr
DSC01416 (1) by Graeme Bird, on Flickr
DSC01420 (1) by Graeme Bird, on Flickr
DSC01435 (1) by Graeme Bird, on Flickr
DSC01439 (1) by Graeme Bird, on Flickr
I, having spent some weeks assisting with telemetry for Sea Harrier trials on the carrier HMS Hermes as an RAe Bedford apprentice years back, was interested to see the little boaty Mcboatface.
The radar head was revolving and who knows maybe weapon systems were alarming and tracking me as an 'incoming'; in my fibreglass 'stealth fighter'.
Exercises werescheduled according to SkyD NOTAMs but when I enquired of Solent Radar for more details they said it was a SD error (sure hope they were right). Hey I used the new listening squawk!
DSC01404 (1) by Graeme Bird, on Flickr
DSC01416 (1) by Graeme Bird, on Flickr
DSC01420 (1) by Graeme Bird, on Flickr
DSC01435 (1) by Graeme Bird, on Flickr
DSC01439 (1) by Graeme Bird, on Flickr