NATO Awacs

[modchild]

I've been used to seeing an RAF Awacs overhead for years as the village I live in is only a few miles from RAF Waddington and the flight path extends over the village. I heard this and went to see what it was and came straight back in to grab my camera. I've never seen one of these either stationary or flying so I rattled off a few shots which I'm sharing today. Not after crit, just more of a share. All taken with my 70D and 300 f4L IS and all had minimal if any PP.


NATO AWACS Over Branston by modchild, on Flickr


NATO AWACS Over Branston 1 by modchild, on Flickr


NATO AWACS Over Branston 2 by modchild, on Flickr


NATO AWACS Over Branston 3 by modchild, on Flickr


NATO AWACS Over Branston 4 by modchild, on Flickr

 

[sbowler579]

Great shots of a rarely seen aircraft, you folks up to something dodgy around Waddington. Big brother is listening...................

 

[Jazzmonkey]

Great shots.....thanks for sharing..really like the last one

 

[modchild]

Thanks for the comments guys, Phil, the last one is my favourite one out of all the shots I got of it. I just like the angle of the plane in that one more than the crop of the shot.

 

[DaveS2]

Nice shots, with some fine detail.

Unless I'm mistaken, the prefix (LX) on the tail, would indicate that its from (registered) Luxembourg

Dave

 

[modchild]

That's right Dave, it is registered in Luxembourg and after a bit of googling I found it out it's a Boeing E-3A Sentry, built in 1982 and has been in service since 1985.

 

[Dr_Slippers]

amazing looking planes, I remember seeing one when I was younger but they always seem to be flying over my house these days since living close to RAF Mildenhall!

 

[modchild]

We had the thing flying overhead, very low and loud and circling every 5 minutes or so, for a couple of hours late last night. After that I'm beginning to wish I'd never seen the damn thing now.

 

[Bobtail22]

Like the last one. Great shot haven't seen the LX E3, only 8 Sqn E3-D up.