st24 wrote:FarnboroJohn wrote:
Compares poorly with 100 Lincolns as just part of a 1950 RAF flypast......
John
Not sure as to what flypast you refer but if it was the 1953 Coronation review there were only a "mere" 45 Lincolns in that- a small element of the 572 RAF aircraft that flew over Odiham that day! Numbers for that event are just staggering- 240 Meteors for instance, 32 Chipmunks, 60 Sabres including 36 from the RCAF, 48 Canberras, 61 Vampires and Venoms with 12from the RAAF.... 300 odd on static so nigh on 870 aircraft involved! More recent flypasts have paled into insignificance - 138 in total at the Finningley '77 Silver Jubilee, 62 in the' 08 QBF, 90 in the RIAT '08 RAF 90th, and 78 in the Diamond Jubilee QBF.
I'm sure they'll do alright....
I wish I was as confident.....
The 1950 RAF air display was held at Farnborough and included among other things a re-enactment of the Amiens Prison raid, air support to the Army (with rockets fired onto the airfield!), a demonstration of a Dakota snatching a Hadrian glider off the ground from in the air, and a flypast that according to the programme included Lincolns from 7, 9, 12, 15, 49, 50, 61, 83, 90, 97, 100, 101, 131, 138 and 214 Squadrons of Bomber Command: it was elsewhere long ago that I saw the figure of 100 Lincolns mentioned. There were also Superfortresses from the USAF.
The programme is viewable at : https://www.scribd.com/document/2923250 ... rogram-pdf
Interesting reading.
John