Greetings,
I finally had the time to sort my stuff out!
After my week down the Mediteranean, I still had some days left. And with the Saudies at Dijon combined with some nice autumn sunshine, a small trip was scheduled which would also include some bits of Ramstein. Flying overthere was unfortunatly not that much, but a local C-130J made it worthwile as it was flying all over the place breaking left and right.
C-130J-30 performing a short base low approach
"Happy" tanker taking off for another mission
At Dijon the autumn colors came out very nice! Stars of the show were of course the Saudi Eagles. As it was not clear whether they would depart on Thursday or Friday, we decided to go both days, just in case. On Thursday we got shocked to see that they were already carying three external tanks fitted for their flight back to Saudi-Arabia. That would mean only one chance (take-off), but luckily it turned out we were wrong and they were just early in fitting them with these tanks.
Perfect morning light
Chasing it's own shadow
Got a light?
Dijon local taxiing out for the morning wave
Deux-milles on the go!
Orange dual helping out the locals
Saudi support
French support
Afternoon taxi shots
Alpha Jet with gunpod
Some shots from Ramstein on the way back. It was good to see that the weather had improved here and we even got some sunshine. Not bad, considering it was raining non-stop already since Nancy.
Gally taking off, but shortly after it would return due to some problems with his inflight refuelling capabilty. Since they had a rendez vous over the Atlantic it was a wise decision to return.
Last rays of light for this Scott AFB C-40.
Sunset at ETAR
I hope you liked them!