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Hi all, I just had time to pull out a few shots from the weekend's show out West. Typically the Friday was glorious sunshine, as was the Sunday. The show day, however, started overcast with occasional breaks and the gods onl;y decided to open the curtains and let the sun through as the show was closing! Well, that's enough banging on! Despite all that it was great to see the Alize in the air as well as the Spanish Harrier. Martin

Evening all, Seeing as my RIAT retrospective proved quite popular, I thought I'd share another bunch of shots from my second busiest show of the year. Yeovilton is essentially my local airfield, and I try to spend as much time as I can up there, especially during the show week, and with no clash with Flying Legends, I was able to spend a full four days up there from the Friday to the Monday to see pretty much everything arrive, display and depart the show. So then, Friday, which was spent outside the airfield, largely on the fence at the 09 end of the runway, which is a superb location for the Commando Assault practices in particular, although sadly the only cloud we saw all day covered the sun halfway through the evening practice, killing the otherwise stunning light. For the afternoon display rehearsals, I gambled on a new location under the 04 approach, which turned out to be pretty decent, being right underneath the displays, although the jets were a little distant at times. VL2014_Arrivals_011 by Shaun Schofield, on Flickr VL2014_Arrivals_012 by Shaun Schofield, on Flickr VL2014_Arrivals_015 by Shaun Schofield, on Flickr VL2014_Arrivals_006 by Shaun Schofield, on Flickr VL2014_Arrivals_001 by Shaun Schofield, on Flickr VL2014_Arrivals_038 by Shaun Schofield, on Flickr VL2014_Arrivals_046 by Shaun Schofield, on Flickr VL2014_Arrivals_048 by Shaun Schofield, on Flickr VL2014_Arrivals_050 by Shaun Schofield, on Flickr VL2014_Arrivals_060 by Shaun Schofield, on Flickr VL2014_Arrivals_068 by Shaun Schofield, on Flickr VL2014_Arrivals_061 by Shaun Schofield, on Flickr The show day itself was a touch disappointing, with a whole host of cancellations plaguing the flying programme, as well as indifferent weather conditions- being either dark and overcast, or bright sun right in your face- making photography different. The latter is something I can deal with, as essentially I'm only after good shots of the Commando assault, where the light comes good towards the end of the day. Sadly though, even the pyros for the final wall of fire went tech! Nevertheless, it was still a decent day's flying, VL2014_Showday_001 by Shaun Schofield, on Flickr VL2014_Showday_002 by Shaun Schofield, on Flickr VL2014_Showday_005 by Shaun Schofield, on Flickr VL2014_Showday_039 by Shaun Schofield, on Flickr VL2014_Showday_058 by Shaun Schofield, on Flickr VL2014_Showday_069 by Shaun Schofield, on Flickr VL2014_Showday_070 by Shaun Schofield, on Flickr Yeovilton's departures tends to be drawn out across two days, with the bulk of the foreign military leaving on the Monday. The French Navy however tend to depart on the Sunday, so we headed up once again on another overcast day to catch the Rafales depart, with anything else being a bonus. I've been after a shot of a head on Rafale ever since a friend of mine nailed one at the 2012 show, and fortunately, my luck was in as the pair backtracked the runway for launching. As such, I make no apologies for the amount of them! VL2014_Departures_013 by Shaun Schofield, on Flickr VL2014_Departures_012 by Shaun Schofield, on Flickr VL2014_Departures_001 by Shaun Schofield, on Flickr VL2014_Departures_015 by Shaun Schofield, on Flickr VL2014_Departures_018 by Shaun Schofield, on Flickr VL2014_Departures_008 by Shaun Schofield, on Flickr The Monday was a much brighter affair weather wise, and gave a grand opportunity to catch the remaining foreign aircraft leave. Highlight of the day goes to the German Navy Orion, which requested an additional flyby after take off, which thankfully was granted, as the crew preceded to fly through at full chat and silly low level, 50 feet maximum. It was a fantastic moment, and rounded up the fine show weekend in superb style. VL2014_Departures_025 by Shaun Schofield, on Flickr VL2014_Departures_028 by Shaun Schofield, on Flickr VL2014_Departures_036 by Shaun Schofield, on Flickr VL2014_Departures_028 by Shaun Schofield, on Flickr VL2014_Departures_034 by Shaun Schofield, on Flickr VL2014_Departures_035 by Shaun Schofield, on Flickr VL2014_Departures_039 by Shaun Schofield, on Flickr VL2014_Departures_041 by Shaun Schofield, on Flickr VL2014_Departures_002 by Shaun Schofield, on Flickr As before, there's more to see on Flickr. Hope they were again enjoyable to view. Cheers, Shaun