Recent content by Ben Montgomery

Hello all, and a Happy New Year! In December, I had a very last minute opportunity to fly out to the USS Dwight D Eisenhower (CVN 69), whilst the boat was operating in the eastern Mediterranean and conducting strikes in Iraq and Syria. We spent 24 hours on the ship with an overnight stay, and...

I had the incredible privilege back in April to join the 7th SOS at RAF Mildenhall for a sortie in one of their CV-22B Ospreys. Bell-Boeing CV-22B Osprey 07-0033 - 7th Special Operations Squadron - United States Air Force by Ben Montgomery, on Flickr Bell-Boeing CV-22B Osprey 07-0033 - 7th...

Four from a pleasant evening last weekend - thanks to Harry for lending me his 500! Blackburn Monoplane Type D G-AANI - The Shuttleworth Collection - Old Warden by Ben Montgomery, on Flickr Bristol Boxkite Replica G-ASPP - The Shuttleworth Collection - Old Warden by Ben Montgomery, on Flickr...

A selection from a wonderful week up in Moray - and the weather was ridiculous too! By some bad luck I didn't catch many of the Maritime Patrol Aircraft that I went for, but the weather and movements from the local Tornados and Typhoons made up for it. 1. Eurofighter Typhoon FGR.4 ZK340 -...

Given how little light there was on the Sea King, that's rather good! :)

Thanks to everyone for the very kind comments and welcome! #7 was definitely a gamble as the light was shocking - one of those random bursts of sunlight just happened to reflect from a body of water to light up the underside! Given everyone seems to have enjoyed them so far, hopefully you'll...

Haha yes, many wheels! It's the Antonov An-225 (world's largest aircraft) arriving at East Midlands last summer. I don't think I've ever seen so many people waiting for one aircraft - and mostly not photographers but families and kids too. If the Just Jane event is the TimeLine Events one...

Lovely Jonathan - as mentioned, the rain in the light is rather atmospheric. :)

Evening all, How it's taken me this long to sign up here I have no idea, but thanks to hmeasures for finally prompting me to do so. I thought I'd share a random selection of my stuff from over the last year or so to get starting, and hopefully there'll be more to contribute soon! Regards...