East Kirkby Photographers Day

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East Kirkby Photographers Day

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Here's a link to an interesting photoset from the organised photographers day held at East Kirkby this weekend

http://www.flickr.com/photos/zymurgy661 ... 609607213/
Heres an example from the set (photocredit zymurgy661)

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and here's another link to a different set posted on the Aviation Forum

http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showth ... p?t=115608

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Thanks Dave,

Great photos, I wish I could have been there :)

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Dave, as Wayne has said, wish you guys weren't so dam far away! I can only hope that I can make it to EK one day.
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I was forgetting that forum member, Paul, sent me some great photos of EK and that of Skegness Pier, for which my father and crew and probably many more crews, flew over. Many thanks Paul for the photos.
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The Australian and New Zealander aircrew I flew with were all a bit crazy. I remember we once upset a few officers at Skegness with our unconventional flying. In the early days at East Kirkby we used to fly out to sea and fire all our guns to test everything was working correctly. On this occasion we were flying below the level of Skegness pier. It was rather strange skimming along the surface and looking up to see the pier above us. There was one chap in a boat who leapt into the water when he saw us coming. On the way back we decided to take her over Butlins and the naval base where they were having a full military parade. We shot over their heads really low and they all ducked. Needless to say we were later taken into the group captain’s office and given a good telling off. We heard later that the officer in charge of the parade had said the next time we tried it his men would open fire on us - Harry Parkins, Flight Engineer - K for Kitty Crew

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From today's Daily Mail, some great photos.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... tures.html
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Good spot John. Some more great photos. Not sure about the sunset, looks more like a graduated filter to me!

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was a very good event, i managed to luck out & it coincided with me spending a few days down in Lincs.

i uploaded most of my pics (nearly 400!! :shock: ) onto photobucket- bear in mind i only used a wee pocket digital camera, and not one of the very expensive looking cameras which were in evidence that day!! :lol:

http://s169.photobucket.com/albums/u216 ... by%202012/

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Great stuff Kevin! Thanks for posting them. Wish I could have join you on the day.
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Just wanted to bring this thread back up again.
There are some excellent photos included in the links provided.
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