The Mach Loop - Cad West (Nov 2024)

So I saw that the weather was looking nice for this week, and wanting to finally get some good pictures from the Mach Loop I booked an AirBnb which was actually located within the Loop itself. I chose to go up Tuesday as Monday would have less flying due to Remembrance Day and Veteran's Day. It ended up being a great day with a nice variety of aircraft coming through

November 12, 2024

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First up was a Typhoon from RAF Coningsby, and its route didn't look promising but someone heard on the scanner that the pilot wanted to do some low-level flying in Wales. Following the plane on radar showed it heading towards RAF Valley first for a Practice Diversion (PD), and then started to head our way. It ended up only doing one pass and then went back off to base

Royal Air Force - RAF Coningsby - Eurofighter Typhoon FGR.4 (ZK335) - RFR10016/TYP10016

The next couple of hours had a nice variety with: Texans, Hawks, Phenoms, F-35s and an Atlas A400M, and then the afternoon was quiet so I headed back down to the car. Unfortunately most of the later passes were quite high so didn't have much if any background in them, but it was still a fun day!

Royal Air Force - RAF Valley - Beech T-6C Texan T1 (ZM325) - RCKT1