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US West Coast Holiday with some spotting (pt 3,Bu.131 A2A)

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Hello,

In the past 3,5 weeks I was on a Camper trip with my girlfriend in Western US. We visited a lot of National Parks and cities. To keep the relationship smooth we also did some spotting. In California we visited some musea and El Centro. In Arizona AMARG, Yuma and Williams. In Utah and Nevada I mainly saw a lot of rocks ;-) and a C-146.

I start with one of the highlights of the trip. In Yuma the WTI was taking place and the platforms were completely filled with a/c. I did not count on a WTI but is was a nice extra. Later on I will put pics from the other fields:

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Re: US West Coast Holiday with some spotting (Yuma Pics)

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Nice!
Do you have a log of the WTI?
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Re: US West Coast Holiday with some spotting (Yuma Pics)

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Melchior Timmers wrote:Nice!
Do you have a log of the WTI?
I am working on it. Just got back ;-).
I know other people have more serials then I do so it should become nice list.
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Re: US West Coast Holiday with some spotting (Yuma Pics)

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Nice set of images! Any more info on the Mi24?
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Re: US West Coast Holiday with some spotting (Yuma Pics)

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Does anyone know when the flying phase of the WTI finishes please?

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Re: US West Coast Holiday with some spotting (Yuma Pics)

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To keep the relationship smooth we also did some spotting.
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US West Coast Holiday with some spotting (part 2,El Centro)

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After Yuma we visted El Centro on october 2nd. There was a lot of activity and about 50 a/c on the platforms. Not as much as Yuma but since photography is great in El Centro it is definately worth a stop. Especially from the rooftop of a camper :-).

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Re: US West Coast Holiday with some spotting (part 2,El Cent

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Nice pictures Patrick, just curious, what kind of lens did you use?
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Re: US West Coast Holiday with some spotting (part 2,El Cent

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Steve wrote:Nice pictures Patrick, just curious, what kind of lens did you use?
Just a 70-200 2.8. But I have a 23mp body so I can crop a lot.
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Re: US West Coast Holiday with some spotting (part 2,El Cent

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Nice Pat! The camper-top pics of El Centro are great! 8) I love the AV-8!

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US West Coast Holiday with some spotting (pt 3,Bu.131 A2A)

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I am working on my log Melchior :-). I also hope to get some info on the Mi.24 Benno, a few people visited the base and read some serials. I do not know if they got anything on the Mi. I didn't.

Exactly a week ago we were invited to join a formationflight with some Buckers. It was great but very very hard to take some descent pics. My girlfriend is sitting in "A-76". I was flying in a Czech build Bucker 131 N104A.
We flew from Gillespie to Brown Field and back. When we landed 6 F/A-18's were waiting for us to clear the runway (one F/A-18B :-)).

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Re: US West Coast Holiday with some spotting (pt 3,Bu.131 A2

Post by Tu154 »

Nice pictures!

I think it's one of the 2 MI24 of the Cold War Air Museum.
http://www.cwam.org/wiki/index.php/Aircraft

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Re: US West Coast Holiday with some spotting (pt 3,Bu.131 A2

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Tu154 wrote:Nice pictures!

I think it's one of the 2 MI24 of the Cold War Air Museum.
http://www.cwam.org/wiki/index.php/Aircraft

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Tu154, they are not from the CWAM. The museum has two former Bulgarian Hinds, and
as far as I know, they still have some trace of these markings.

The hind(s) flying out of MCAS Yuma is an operational example out of Bragg.

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Re: US West Coast Holiday with some spotting (pt 3,Bu.131 A2

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Tu154 wrote:Nice pictures!

I think it's one of the 2 MI24 of the Cold War Air Museum.
http://www.cwam.org/wiki/index.php/Aircraft

Greetings
Looks to me as the 74-22270 from the OPTEC Threat Support Activity,
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