The Pacific Northwest was a great place to see Daher Kodiaks. They were built over in Idaho and there were plenty of them in the Seattle area. Even so, I was still keen to see them as there is something about their chunky functionality that appealed to me. When I came back to the UK, I wasn’t expecting to see them around. Consequently, when I got to the FAST museum at Farnborough, I was pleasantly surprised to see that one was inbound shortly from Guernsey. It was really overcast with the base very low. The instrument approach would result in popping out of the clouds quite late. I went with my preferred technique for shooting in such conditions with a couple of stops of overexposure with the goal of having enough light on the airframe and then post processing to bring the sky back down to something sensible.

I wasn’t exactly sure what the angle on the plane would be from the area outside the museum and where the plane would come into view, but it wasn’t too bad as it worked out. I had a reasonable sighting line and enough time to react. Having a dark grey aircraft in such dreary light was not helping but I think I got something reasonable from it.