TYPHOON3 wrote:False alarm on the Frecce,Facebook source was looking at an old 'confirmed aircraft' list from God knows when.Lets hope they still confirm eventually.
ah, yeah. Would be good of them to come again.
TYPHOON3 wrote:False alarm on the Frecce,Facebook source was looking at an old 'confirmed aircraft' list from God knows when.Lets hope they still confirm eventually.
Tom105 wrote:Another self confirmation in the form of the Belgian A109, will be good to see as never seen their display before
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convair wrote:See BBMF schedule shows Lancaster and six fighters (plus Dakota flypast) for all three "main" days of show
Go4Long wrote:Has anyone seen any hints as to what this new Belgian demo jet looks like?
Go4Long wrote:Everyone's a comedian. lol
rdchawk wrote:Go4Long wrote:Everyone's a comedian. lol
Have you seen the post in aviation waffle?
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=80093
Isn't it the BBMF's policy to have at least one aircraft undergoing major maintenence at any time? It would rule out a Lancaster, 6 fighters and the Dakota at the same show (unless their aircraft in maintenance is a DHC-1).Brevet Cable wrote:Assuming they can actually scrape together 6 airworthy fighters, that is.
Oh, and typically they're ignoring the poor old Chipmunk as usual
aviodromefriend wrote:Isn't it the BBMF's policy to have at least one aircraft undergoing major maintenence at any time? It would rule out a Lancaster, 6 fighters and the Dakota at the same show (unless their aircraft in maintenance is a DHC-1).Brevet Cable wrote:Assuming they can actually scrape together 6 airworthy fighters, that is.
Oh, and typically they're ignoring the poor old Chipmunk as usual
harkins wrote:Having seen the teaser image of the Belgian F-16 display aircraft, I was just thinking that it is more than likely to appear at the Tattoo this year, but equally unlikely it seems is that we’ll see a Dutch equivalent. I think I’m right in saying that there has been no Dutch jet display since 2014 and it was the year before that they last had a display schemed aircraft.
This in turn led me to ponder what fast jet displays are known or assumed to be on the circuit this year – mainly thinking European circuit as to me things like the Canadian Hornet are exotic surprises. The ones I could think of are;
Pretty much confirmed:
F-16 Belgian AF
F-18 Swiss AF
Typhoon RAF
Rafale M pair French Navy
Mirage 2000 ‘Couteau Delta’ French AF*
SwAFHF*
Assumed:
F-16 Turkish AF (SoloTurk)
F-16 Greek AF (Team Zeus)
Rafale C French AF
Gripen Swedish AF
Gripen Czech AF
F-16 Polish AF
In the context of RIAT 2018, I recall that Couteau Delta have self-confirmed not to be there and the SwAFHF are highly unlikely to be displaying their Viggen or Draken for a number of reasons. The French Navy’s Rafale pair also seem very unlikely to be at RIAT based on the Bastille day clash and that they’ve already confirmed for Yeovilton.
What else is there that I’ve missed or perhaps included that likely won’t be on the circuit?
rdchawk wrote:To name a few other possibilities
Hungarian Gripen
Danish F-16
Finnish F-18
Polish SU22's
Ukrainian SU27's
Spanish Typhoon or Hornet
Italian Typhoon, Tornado or AMX
harkins wrote: I didn't know the Danes had a solo display. When was that last seen at RIAT?