Hot Blade 14 (Ovar, Portugal)

[lloyd h]

If you've been dipping in to the Random Photos thread you may have noticed a few images of mine from the Hot Blade exercise in Portugal - instead of constantly bogging down the thread I thought I'd create a separate thread and chuck all the images in at once.
I spent a week with 751 Squadron at Ovar documenting as much of the exercise I could and flying on a range of different missions, the most interesting being a 1v1 evasion sortie against a PoAF F-16AM whilst we were in a AW101. Something that showed just how much the crews have to work seamlessly together to ensure success - thankfully my sick bag remained un-used.
My article complete with photos should be live around mid September and featured online and print in Vertical911 which I'm extremely pleased about.

Anyway on with the shots, I hope you've upgraded your internet providing's.


1.
RNLAF Chinook CH-47D by lloydh.co.uk, on Flickr

2.
RNLAF CH-47D Chinook by lloydh.co.uk, on Flickr

3.
Belgian Air Force A109BA by lloydh.co.uk, on Flickr

4.
751 Squadron AW101 Merlin Cockpit by lloydh.co.uk, on Flickr

5.
RNLAF CH-47D Chinook by lloydh.co.uk, on Flickr

6.
RNLAF CH-47D Chinook by lloydh.co.uk, on Flickr

7.
Belgian Air Force A109BA by lloydh.co.uk, on Flickr

8.
RNLAF CH-47D Chinook by lloydh.co.uk, on Flickr

9.
751 Squadron AW101 Merlin by lloydh.co.uk, on Flickr

10.
201 Squadron Falcões F-16AM by lloydh.co.uk, on Flickr

11.
751 Squadron 'Pumas' EH101 Merlin by lloydh.co.uk, on Flickr

12.
Belgian Air Force A109BAs by lloydh.co.uk, on Flickr

13.
PoAF 201 Squadron 'Falcões' F-16AM by lloydh.co.uk, on Flickr

14.
Esquadra 751 EH101 Merlin by lloydh.co.uk, on Flickr

15.
Belgian Air Force A109BA by lloydh.co.uk, on Flickr

16.
Ride Of Your Life by lloydh.co.uk, on Flickr

17.
Walk Around by lloydh.co.uk, on Flickr

18.
Teamwork by lloydh.co.uk, on Flickr

19.
UPF Medevac by lloydh.co.uk, on Flickr

20.
751 Squadron AW/EH101 Merlin by lloydh.co.uk, on Flickr

21.
751 Squadron 'Pumas' EH101 Merlin by lloydh.co.uk, on Flickr

22.
751 Squadron AW101 Merlin by lloydh.co.uk, on Flickr

23.
751 Squadron AW101 Merlin by lloydh.co.uk, on Flickr

24.
751 Squadron EH101 Merlin by lloydh.co.uk, on Flickr

25.
751 Squadron AW/EH101 Merlin by lloydh.co.uk, on Flickr

26.
201 Squadron Falcões PoAF F-16BM by lloydh.co.uk, on Flickr

27.
RNLAF CH-47D Engine by lloydh.co.uk, on Flickr

28.
Wash Down by lloydh.co.uk, on Flickr

29.
RAF Puma HC2s & RNLAF CH-47D by lloydh.co.uk, on Flickr

30.
751 Squadron EH101 Merlin by lloydh.co.uk, on Flickr

31.
RNLAF CH-47D Chinook by lloydh.co.uk, on Flickr

32.
Focus by lloydh.co.uk, on Flickr

33.
JTACS by lloydh.co.uk, on Flickr

34.
UPF Soldier by lloydh.co.uk, on Flickr

35.
QRF Force by lloydh.co.uk, on Flickr

36.
Bundesheer AB212s by lloydh.co.uk, on Flickr

37.
Tension by lloydh.co.uk, on Flickr

38.
Focused by lloydh.co.uk, on Flickr

39.
Esquadra 751 EH101 Merlin by lloydh.co.uk, on Flickr

40.
230 Squadron Puma HC2 by lloydh.co.uk, on Flickr

41.
HEER UH-1Ds by lloydh.co.uk, on Flickr

42.
Night Vision by lloydh.co.uk, on Flickr

43.
RNLAF CH-47D Chinook Refuel by lloydh.co.uk, on Flickr

44.
751 Squadron AW101 Merlins by lloydh.co.uk, on Flickr

45.
751 Squadron AW101 Merlin by lloydh.co.uk, on Flickr

46.
RNLAF CH-47D Chinook by lloydh.co.uk, on Flickr

47.
RNLAF CH-47D Chinook by lloydh.co.uk, on Flickr

48.
751 Squadron AW101 Merlin by lloydh.co.uk, on Flickr

49.
Night Mission by lloydh.co.uk, on Flickr

50.
230 Squadron Puma HC2 by lloydh.co.uk, on Flickr

51.
Belgian Air Force A109BA by lloydh.co.uk, on Flickr

52.
HEER UH-1D Huey by lloydh.co.uk, on Flickr

53.
Belgian Air Force A109BA by lloydh.co.uk, on Flickr

54.
HEER UH-1D Hueys by lloydh.co.uk, on Flickr

55.
RAF Puma HC2 by lloydh.co.uk, on Flickr

56.
Lookout by lloydh.co.uk, on Flickr

57.
HEER UH-1D Huey by lloydh.co.uk, on Flickr

58.
RNLAF Maintenance Crew by lloydh.co.uk, on Flickr

59.
LHP_5101 by lloydh.co.uk, on Flickr

Apologies for the amount of images! C+C Welcome.

[ukaskew]

Been loving these on Flickr, the panning/night/take-off/afterburner shots are just ridiculously sublime.

C&C? My only immediate thoughts in between all the 'wows' was that I would have liked to have seen a bit more environment, some feel very 'tight'.

[2slo]

You've put a great deal of time and effort into those and it shows, the results are excellent. My favourite isn't actually one of the aircraft shots but no 56, 'the lookout'.

[DibblyDobbler]

Awesome Lloyd!

[Simpo Two]

Some excellent ones in there - 44 for me.

[VX Foxy]

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[jimmy156]

These really are top work Llyod, a pleasure to look through. Too many gooduns to pick a favourite, although i do like the portrait shots!

[RobbieKB]

This thread is better than a lot of photographer's entire portfolios.

[lloyd h]

ukaskew said:

Been loving these on Flickr, the panning/night/take-off/afterburner shots are just ridiculously sublime.

C&C? My only immediate thoughts in between all the 'wows' was that I would have liked to have seen a bit more environment, some feel very 'tight'.

You're definitely right, the days I chose not to fly and stay on the ground to photograph the other air assets the weather was naff so I didn't feel they worked that well. I'll definitely have a look through again though, thanks!

RobbieKB said:

This thread is better than a lot of photographer's entire portfolios.

Very kind Robbie

Thanks for the feedback everyone, surprised how well the portrait stuff has gone down.

[Rogue86]

It shows that you've put bags of effort in, you've done a fantastic job of covering the ex. The static stuff is great and the top-down shots of the helos are sublime, but the show-stealers for me are the human-interest shots, most notably the guy being medevac'd. Great sense of movement and it really puts you in the moment. Top job.

[lloyd h]

Rogue86 said:

It shows that you've put bags of effort in, you've done a fantastic job of covering the ex. The static stuff is great and the top-down shots of the helos are sublime, but the show-stealers for me are the human-interest shots, most notably the guy being medevac'd. Great sense of movement and it really puts you in the moment. Top job.

Thanks mate, that means a lot.