RIAT 2012 Participants

[boff180]

Took part in the fly past, broke tight into the circuit, and landed.

No display.

Andy

[capercaillie]

Excellent to see one of the highest ever turnouts from the military participants listed pre show.

We appeared to lose the Italian MB339s and Turkish Gulfstream in the run up the last week and the Saudis were withdrawn, but of the rest which had arrival slots booked only the Wildcat, Lynx AH9A, both visiting and static RAF 125s, Dutch Cougar and most noticably the French C-135FR never made it.

Shame the Brazilian KC-137 and Greek Spartan seen heading to Brize over the 6 days couldn't have joined the party or indeed the Maltese King Air at Farnborough which had other operational duties, but a great job and another positive with the transparency of the participants list letting everyone know what was going on.

[Chopper81]

Dunno if this has been posted, ATC as the Japanese 767 departed, the tower said "thanks for coming, come back again next year and bring some eagles with you" the Japanese replied with "we wish to come back next year"

Heres hoping this happens!