Pease KPSM has seen a nice lift in transients since we've gone after ISIS. Because Pease is in NH and a good stop before heading overseas we see a lot of fighters heading over and on their way back.

What's funny is that some of the people I follow on IG shoot the same AC at Lakenheath the day before or after like this guy.


Caught these Growlers from Whidbey Island heading over and a few weeks later caught them heading back to WA state


inbound flights


midflight snacks, hope someone brought some milk because that sun is going to keep these warm


RW change for the 2nd group inbound

Love catching a gaggle of Hornets departing


A group of 11 Harriers from Yuma




There were 2 of these working out of here for a week, cool to see them.


Dirby 81 working the pattern


2 boys departing

I got a text that this group had just left England while I was 3 hours up North in the Mountains. Drove home and caught 12 hornets come in with 2 groups.





Each 6 ship had it's own KC-10


Had 6 birds on the 2nd group come in but was only able to line up 2 of them with the moon


Prowlers heading home

hate when the wind direction doesn't work in your favor for departures.






Support for the Hornets is always needed


thanks for looking

VMFA 314! I happen to know the Maintenance Chief of 314. Great pix as always!

Really great shots, Dave, all of them! The one that really grabs my attention, though, is that moon shot.

Thanks Ghost






thanks a lot, we could see the moon starting to come up over the horizon and was wondering if the 2nd group was going to make it in time.

Great pictures!

thanks Cali

That's a beautiful set of pics TG, thanks for sharing

I'm glad you liked them

Pease has been pretty active with flights heading over seas and back and with Red Flag visitors as well at time.

These boys were heading to the Sandbox



Had 12 Spangdahlem Vipers come through on their way to RF

Never seen these before, had 2 of them come in from McGuire


This was a flight of 3 the same time after the Cobra's landed


Just shot these on Wed, 2 Iraqi F-16s heading home.


not the best quality, was at ISO1000 and only at 1/200th shutter speed but I love the full cone!

Very nice! Looks like you're able to get pretty close to the runway.

That's a lot of F-16s! I'm jealous, as I rarely see F-16s in my area, since it's a Navy/Marine town.

That Cobra is great, and I like that it's a Whisky. In the San Diego area, they've almost entirely converted to Zulus, and there's something about the overall shape of the Whisky that I think I prefer.

thanks, we're probably 50 ft from the taxi way, the runway is a tad bit further away. Being a tanker base and old SAC base they needed more room to line them up for alert take offs.

We had the MD A-10's up here for a week doing training up North, totally forgot to even post them on my FB. Rumor has it some Eurofighters are supposed to come in next week as well.

Bangor ME gets most of the transient fighters from overseas when they come and go. 3 hours 1 way is tough to justify when you're not sure if they're coming for sure but my GF and youngest son went up last Fall and caught some Israel & Jordian 16's and I went back for some Tornado's later that week.

Great shots and lovely aircraft - thanks for sharing

Three German Tonkas - that must be about half their servicable fleet ...

Really miss seeing Harriers in the UK skies - the Government scrapped all of ours as a result of defence cuts!

Last time I saw one was at Biggin Hill in 2010:

very nice shots Eric!

Nice shots!

Interesting to see the TGP type thing under the nose:

thanks AB, they had a couple with them

Those are based at Miramar - got a shot of 12 at the last air show in October:

great high speed pass Ken

We had Maryland's 104th FS up here this fall playing up in our MOA for a few days. Was so nice to hear those engines again.

whole lot of UGLY coming at you...


waving for the cameras




Had to have tanker support

Very nice! I love the lighting, and I love seeing A-10s!

Cool shots.


Wheels

hoping to get some Italian Typhoons coming through this weekend coming back from Red Flag

caught the Italian Typhoons, 2 767's (new KC-46) and 2 Italian Hercs come in last Sat. Haven't edited many shots yet, just these few. Terrible lighting when landing this way, hard to get a good vantage point with the sun behind you..

First group of 4 on the overhead break


Not sure if he's waving or actually slowing down...


short of touchdown

Tues I had to go to Barnes to catch some Eagles

Can't get much closer than this on an alert base!

Hah! Good pics nevertheless. I think I know some of those guys!

oh really? We heard the pilot talking to some couple along the fence that they're coming back after RF. Nice article about the process they went through to make it happen. Now only if they'd use their AB's like the RAF does

Very happy to hear they'll be some more visits from the Italians.

http://www.seacoastonline.com/news/20160221/military-training-has-everyone-looking-up

Markings and fuselage numbering is clearly from our other base (Gioia del Colle) so I do not work there, but I've been there and we have EFA Drivers coming from all bases to train so- highly likely.

I'm always curious about Reheat usage.
Despite the huge cost in fuel it's a nice thing to happen to watch...

2nd group inbound


nice overhead view


she had to declare an IFE because the RHT drogue wouldn't pull back in. Nothing like 70ft of hose hanging off your wing


support Herc inbound.

Very cool shots Dave! I've never seen a Typhoon in flight, so I'm jealous Nice prop blur on the Herc!

thanks Ken, I'm always harassing the guys I shoot with about stopped props, HUGE peeve of mine along with slanted horizons... I'd rather throw out 80% of my shots for a few keepers and a nice disk. This was at 1/100.

Here's the Italian Typhoons heading off to Nellis for RF


love the green from the HUD's


and always appreciate when they "wave".

finally caught up at work and 10 hour days are over...

T-38 doing some patten work for their friends


Iraq F-16's heading over, 4 total


Italian F-35 that proceeded on to Luke

damn i miss the Harrier! great catches! love the hawgs

Thanks Jim, the Harriers are getting less frequent around here as well.

some local activity this year, went from famine to feast all in 2 weeks.

493rd FS from Lakenheath came in, 14 birds total. They came in just after a late season snowfall so the bellies were lit up nice and bright from the snow on the ground.

first shot is Reaper flight

next shot is Reaper lead, notice the 2 kill markings

Hitman 21 flight overhead

Had this one bird that had issues all week, even when they departed back to Lakenheath, they had to divert back to Barnes which is an Eagle base.

Great stuff! I grew up on Pease AFB as a SAC brat. My old man was an FB-111 pilot and was the last squadron commander there before it closed. Went to school in Rye and Portsmouth and we still have a home near Wallis Sands beach.

Love that place. A lot of your pics are taken from the same places I used to watch from all day long or while performing SOF duty with my dad.

Keep em coming!

oh wow, that's cool. My ex father in law retired there when it closed, he was a CC for the FB-111's but I think moved up into the office more for scheduling maintenance. MSGT Roche if he remember's him.

I grew up just across the street from Yoken's and would see the FB's coming out of burner and would sit just off the runway on the overpass to 95 before they put that back road in for C&J...

thank you for your and your Dad's service!

Had 2 Iraqi F-16, on their way to them from the factory divert 2 weeks ago. Once checked out by the Green Mountain Boys from VT which fly's the F-16 they were back on their way.

Foggy sunrise


cleared for flight