Sunday at Fairford...thick grey skies... I abandoned any thoughts of photographing the flying display and went instead around the static.

Thundering down Rwy 04 to come back in 15 minutes for an impressive Overfly.

Taxiing out for departure on Rwy 04.

During one of 3 touchn'n goes on that beautiful Friday.

Turning onto the runway to depart from RIAT 2012

USAF 79-0442 first flight 18-Dec-1980, to Luxembourg AF/NATO LX-N90442 delivered 22-Jan-1982. It has a special colour scheme to commemorate 50 years of NATO, and below the cockpit it carries the NAEWF badge. It was a long wait at the end of the Open Day before it could be photographed without people in front, as the aircraft was parked right at the gate, and was also used as a walk-through exhibit.

A new build 707 delivered to the USAF in 1978. It was later converted to an E-3B.

Fifty shades of grey - that's about as colourful as it gets in modern military aviation.

Arriving for the Kecskemét Air Show, although strangely parked on a distant ramp which the public couldn't see throughout the weekend