The World's Most Secret Places: RAF Menwith Hill, England
Royal Air Force Menwith Hill or more simply RAF Menwith Hill is a Royal Air Force station near Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England which provides communications and intelligence support services to the United Kingdom and the United States of America. The site contains an extensive satellite ground station and is a communications intercept and missile warning site and has been described as the largest electronic monitoring station in the world. RAF Menwith Hill is commanded by a Royal Air Force Officer, supported by an RAF element, whilst the majority of support services were provided by the United States Air Force, 421st Air Base Group until 2014. The site acts as a ground station for a number of satellites operated by the US National Reconnaissance Office, on behalf of the US National Security Agency, with antennae contained in a large number of highly distinctive white radomes, and is alleged to be an element of the ECHELON system.
Runway 14 Landing and Taxi at Leeds Bradford Airport, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England - 14 May, 2019
Runway 14 Landing and Taxi to the Stand at Leeds Bradford Airport, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England - 14 May, 2019.
Leeds Bradford International Airport (IATA: LBA, ICAO: EGNM) is located at Yeadon, in the City of Leeds Metropolitan District in West Yorkshire, England, 6 nautical miles (11 km; 6.9 mi) northwest of Leeds city centre. The airport has one physical runway, which depending on the prevalent wind (which dictates the direction aircraft land and take-off) is called Runway 32 or Runway 14. To read more about Leeds Bradford Airport, click here: .
This film features views from a window mounted GoPro Hero6 Black action cam from an aircraft as it approaches, lands and taxis to the stand at Leeds Bradford Airport. Within the film, the following locations are identified: Castleford, Great Preston, Allerton Bywater, Woodlesford, Cross Green, Seacroft, Harehills, Roundhay, Gledhow, Potternewton, Chapel Allerton, Moortown, Alwoodley, Eccup Reservoir, Pool in Wharfedale, Swinsty Reservoir, RAF Menwith Hill, Blubberhouses, Ilkley, Burley-in-Wharfedale, Otley Golf Club, Menston, Guiseley, Yeadon, Yeadon Cemetery and Leeds Bradford Airport .
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Menwith Hill to Blubberhouses
Short truck ride past the US listening station at Menwith Hill near Harrogate, Yorkshire, UK
The Walking Englishman - Blubberhouses Moor near Ilkley Moor
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Fewston Reservoir
Wild orchids are just one of the plants you'll find at Fewston Reservoir. You'll find it between Blubberhouses and Harrogate.
fourth of july at Menwith Hill
Our Family's week early fourth of July Celebration at Menwith Hill 2010
RAF Menwith Hill September 24, 2014
RAF Menwith Hill
Independence From America 4 July 2010, Menwith Hill, UK
Advert for the Independance From America event 2010 outside NSA Menwith Hill in North Yorkshire
The event his hosted by the Campaign for the Accountability of American Bases. Please see for further details
All welcome at the event. Food available. Bring your family. Speeches, music and a lovely march around as much of the base as we are allowed
Ghost Peloton - Before A Northern Sky
This what the audience saw. It was shot from the crowd on a Flip and two smartphones. No fancy camera tricks, well, save for a little bit of compositing, but the footage is unaltered.
First of all thank you to NVA, Phoenix Dance, the cyclists, the composer, the amazing sound engineers, and the lighting designer for delivering such a wonderful show. It had all the power and grace of the Tour but with added beauty (and at least it didn't zoom past in thirty seconds which is my previous experience of the T de F). Apologies to the dancers for not doing justice to their performance, what we shot was restricted by where we stood.
It definitely needs grading. I used a FlipHD, an iPhone 4s, and a Nokia 925. A nice challenge, especially when it got darker. It was difficult to keep focus—couldn't use autofocus because it seeks all the time and the shots became very hot as the light faded—so we had to guess where we could allow the cyclists to go in/out of focus . All three devices shot on H.264, but each camera has different frame, res, and data rates so I had to endure a transcoding nightmare before I could edit anything together. For the sake of shot unity I dumbed everything down to the FlipHD (720p/29.97) and then edited on FCP. The audio is from the FlipHD and much better than I hoped, but it's all relative since I expected it would be too poor to consider using. Very pleasantly surprised. Apologies if anyone involved is upset by editing some of this out of sequence, I had to make do with what steady footage was available - not very much. That's because I experimented with a lot of out-of-focus shots. They were okay, but I should have stuck to Plan A. Time to sack the cameraman (but NOT the camerawoman). That said, I'm impressed with the Super-8 look to the footage—no filters were used—it reminds me of my Dad's old 8mm home movies. I have stabilised quite a few shots in Motion, but only very gently. Too much can backfire when a smartphone camera is working at the outer margins of its limitations.
All comments welcome. When I have time, I'll put the rest of the shots through Motion. I might even give it a grade too. Thanks to Catherine and Pete for their help.
Thanks also to Betty Lawless (facebook.com/Bettylawlessphotography or flickr.com/photos/lizziecoombes) for letting me use her 'wheels of fire' still.
a snowy drive round west yorkshire part 2
Menwith hill toward Farnley