• Rick Ingham Photography •

The best tactical military aviation pictures on the net specialising in the Salisbuy Plain (SPTA) and RAF Lyneham.

Salisbury Plain


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Exercise Pashtun Eagle Full coverage of Exercise Pashtun Eagle, a mission rehersal exercise for 16 Air Assault Brigade.
Operation Wyvern Tor 2010 A photo report capturing part of Op. Wyvern Tor on Dartmoor supporting the 'Ten Tors' exercise.
The brand new Westland Wildcat I was very fortunate to grab one of the first pictures of the new Westland Wildcat during a test flight. Also captured were Algerian Merlins and a Lynx.
Chinook Brown out training I was lucky enough to watch a Chinook crew practice 'brown out' landings in a dusty part of the Salisbury Plain. Pictures at the bottom of the Chinook section of SPTA or click above.
Exercise Intrepid Owl April 2010 Intrepid Owl was held on the plain in April as a pre-deployment exercise for the RAF Reserves. I shadowed 606 Squadron based at RAF Benson to see how they practiced setting up helicopter landing sites.
Seen out and about: 'Foxy Lady' Cessna Caravan Some close up images of the 'Foxy Lady' Caravan based at the Army Parachute Centre at Netheravon.
RAF Northolt Night Photoshoot 25/03/10 Photographing some rare nice looking aircraft under the floodlights at RAF Northolt.
Seen out and about: Historic glider A few images from an old 'barge' over Wiltshire...
Project: Curium - BIG report! Over the last year, 2 russian Mi-17 helicopters have been flying around Wiltshire - but what have they been doing? Find out more here...
Exercise Pashtun Rat - Winter Mission Rehersal February 2010 saw a large scale exercise on the Salisbury Plain preparing British forces ready for their deployment in Afghanistan.
Air Southwest Some photos from inside Air Southwest.
Swedish Reports Un-prepared strip work 08/08/09 August 2009 saw a Swedish Reports conducting grass landings on the Salisbury plain.
RAF Northolt Night Photoshoot 03/12/09 December 2009 and my first visit to RAF Northolt for a night photoshoot.
U-2 at Fairford 19/12/09 A U-2 passes through RAF Fairford with 'snoopy' tail artwork.
British Airways A-318 steep approach testing Late 2009 saw British Airways using RAF Lyneham to test their new A-318 conducting steep aproach trials.

© Rick Ingham 2010