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- Sun 14 Jul 2013, 3:51 pm
- Forum: Royal International Air Tattoo
- Topic: RIAT 2013 (post your feedback in this thread)
- Replies: 6031
- Views: 851279
Re: RIAT 2013
Then that is unusual
- Sun 14 Jul 2013, 3:32 pm
- Forum: Royal International Air Tattoo
- Topic: RIAT 2013 (post your feedback in this thread)
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Re: RIAT 2013
DanH.......got it in one !! I could have understood if it was only going to be there a short while , but they left it ground-idling all day. And they couldn't even use the excuse about a lack of APUs !! Sure it was not the aircraft apu that was running in the tail? BA tend to leave that running a l...
- Sat 13 Jul 2013, 10:42 pm
- Forum: Modern Military Photos
- Topic: Chateaudun BA279 A Visit to GERSA 11/601
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3513
Re: Chateaudun BA279 A Visit to GERSA 11/601
Great post.
- Sat 13 Jul 2013, 10:35 pm
- Forum: Airshow Photos
- Topic: Duxford Frying Legends 13.07.13
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1150
Re: Duxford Frying Legends 13.07.13
Cracking shots. Like the last one.
- Fri 12 Jul 2013, 9:51 pm
- Forum: Aviation Waffle
- Topic: ET- 787 Fire at Heathrow!
- Replies: 43
- Views: 6255
Re: ET- 787 Fire at Heathrow!
Given it looks like the fire was intense enough to burn a hole in the top of the fuselage I dont think it could be considered a minor fire. In addition to all the questions about cause etc I wonder if the damage to the aircraft is such that it is beyond repair. Any experts on here that can give us a...
- Fri 12 Jul 2013, 9:41 pm
- Forum: Royal International Air Tattoo
- Topic: RIAT 2013 (post your feedback in this thread)
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- Views: 851279
Re: RIAT 2013
No worries about that formation not showing up on radar.
- Fri 12 Jul 2013, 9:39 pm
- Forum: Royal International Air Tattoo
- Topic: 5 years ago today
- Replies: 31
- Views: 3842
Re: 5 years ago today
I was working there - spent five days straight in wellington boots. My feet were in a dreadful state... Trench foot was rampant - it was like the Somme and I recall wandering into FRIAT and finding plastic ducks floating about... The mood amongst the volunteers was sombre... An awful weekend - and ...
- Fri 12 Jul 2013, 9:30 pm
- Forum: Modern Military Photos
- Topic: Low Level treat in Scotland
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1922
Re: Low Level treat in Scotland
Nice shots Gill and a lot more fruitful than the blank I had a few days ago. The 617 sqdn special going past the farmhouse is the pick for me.
- Fri 12 Jul 2013, 2:10 pm
- Forum: Royal International Air Tattoo
- Topic: RIAT 2013 Participants
- Replies: 397
- Views: 90620
Re: RIAT 2013 Participants
LNSE. Agree not my thing either.
- Fri 12 Jul 2013, 1:58 pm
- Forum: Royal International Air Tattoo
- Topic: RIAT 2013 Participants
- Replies: 397
- Views: 90620
Re: RIAT 2013 Participants
Mr Cable. Are these the L-29s that sat at Cumbernauld for ages or a different set? May be a bit off topic but not much else to discuss under attendance today.
- Fri 12 Jul 2013, 11:17 am
- Forum: Royal International Air Tattoo
- Topic: RIAT 2013 (post your feedback in this thread)
- Replies: 6031
- Views: 851279
Re: RIAT 2013
Just watched a new item on the 60th anniversary of the Korean war and the sacrafice from our troops in that conflcit. Would be nice if Korea could send something as a mark of respect ( Unlikely I know but just thinking while watching the BBC). My next door neighbour was a young National Service sol...
- Fri 12 Jul 2013, 8:57 am
- Forum: Royal International Air Tattoo
- Topic: 5 years ago today
- Replies: 31
- Views: 3842
Re: 5 years ago today
I may well have been the only person that actually photographed anything at Fairford on one of the show days, then? Just walked the fence, photographed the static! The advantage of not buying a ticket, I suppose. Didn't bother with the Saturday, went down on the Sunday. @macc: You did Duxford, didn...
- Thu 11 Jul 2013, 9:54 pm
- Forum: Royal International Air Tattoo
- Topic: What does RIAT 2013 need?
- Replies: 110
- Views: 8283
Re: What does RIAT 2013 need?
Andy your reading of RA2335 was the same as mine hence my concerns. Take it to stupid extremes and it would mean every spotter who gathered at the fence of a base where a practice was NOTAMed could / would need to be moved on. Seems to me like the RA needs a common sense interpretation added. Altern...
- Thu 11 Jul 2013, 9:22 pm
- Forum: Royal International Air Tattoo
- Topic: RIAT 2013 (post your feedback in this thread)
- Replies: 6031
- Views: 851279
Re: RIAT 2013
Just watched a new item on the 60th anniversary of the Korean war and the sacrafice from our troops in that conflcit. Would be nice if Korea could send something as a mark of respect ( Unlikely I know but just thinking while watching the BBC).
- Thu 11 Jul 2013, 9:16 pm
- Forum: Royal International Air Tattoo
- Topic: What does RIAT 2013 need?
- Replies: 110
- Views: 8283
Re: What does RIAT 2013 need?
To DanO (I had to tell a member of permanent staff what a Typhoon looked like, for heaven's sake). Make no mistake, there are excellent people at DBH - Tom Gibbons cuts a most impressive figure as Deputy Director Air Ops, for example. . That is nothing. Went to the Services just south of Tebay last...
- Thu 11 Jul 2013, 9:10 pm
- Forum: Royal International Air Tattoo
- Topic: What does RIAT 2013 need?
- Replies: 110
- Views: 8283
Re: What does RIAT 2013 need?
Kind of thinking we need to donate a few hard hats to the staff at DBH for next years FRIAT forum You are making the assumption that there will be FRIAT next year. I have a horrible feeling about that message that the FRIAT package for next year would not be announced until the show. I have this fe...
- Thu 11 Jul 2013, 8:59 pm
- Forum: Royal International Air Tattoo
- Topic: 5 years ago today
- Replies: 31
- Views: 3842
Re: 5 years ago today
2008 had a few plus points. Arrivals and departures plus the fly past for the Queen.
Saturday did Cosford and Sunday Hendon. Bumped into so many soaked spotters at both it was like being in FRIAT
Saturday did Cosford and Sunday Hendon. Bumped into so many soaked spotters at both it was like being in FRIAT
- Thu 11 Jul 2013, 4:13 pm
- Forum: Royal International Air Tattoo
- Topic: Exciting RIAT/IAT items from previous years.
- Replies: 21
- Views: 2695
Re: Exciting RIAT/IAT items from previous years.
So you prefered the wet soggy practice display in 08 to the full display in the glorious sun of 2010? Or are you extracting the micheal? Well , the OP's thread title is "exciting RIAT items....." Given the fact that 2008 was the first year it was displaying at RIAT , then yes. After seein...
- Thu 11 Jul 2013, 3:55 pm
- Forum: Royal International Air Tattoo
- Topic: Exciting RIAT/IAT items from previous years.
- Replies: 21
- Views: 2695
Re: Exciting RIAT/IAT items from previous years.
Tough one German T-33 in 73 plus the French F-8 and P-2 numerous F-4s and 104s Austrian CH-53 in 74, F-14s in 76 plus my first time for the Frecce with their G-91s. EA-3 was nice as well. Aussie A-4s in 77 Venezuela Argentina, Aussie, Kiwi, Brazil and Israel C-130s in 79 Jordanian F-1 in 83 and SR-7...
- Thu 11 Jul 2013, 11:40 am
- Forum: Royal International Air Tattoo
- Topic: RIAT 2013 (post your feedback in this thread)
- Replies: 6031
- Views: 851279
Re: RIAT 2013
Well p***ed off that the Brazilian C-130 has gone but as Boff says not a surprise. Canadians lived up to my expectations...........again. Nice to see the Irish back and thank you Netherlands. Personally I would rather have had the P-38 but old planes break down so the B-25 is an ok swap. Seem to be ...
- Wed 10 Jul 2013, 7:20 pm
- Forum: Royal International Air Tattoo
- Topic: Weather second guessing topic
- Replies: 97
- Views: 16137
Re: Weather second guessing topic
Nothing good to add i see I was going to add a little update later, waiting for the ECM to come out. This sort of comment puts me off. But right now it is still looking good, i know its still so far out but it's the pattens you look for. It seems from Thursday before the show the azores high pushs ...
- Wed 10 Jul 2013, 7:17 pm
- Forum: Royal International Air Tattoo
- Topic: RIAT 2013 (post your feedback in this thread)
- Replies: 6031
- Views: 851279
Re: RIAT 2013
All so predictable this year (without the Farnborough factor). Lots of 'moaning', and lots of people getting on their high horse trying to defend it. You could turn the clock back to 2011 and the mood on this forum was about the same! Just an idea, but would it be worth making RIAT an event that ru...
- Wed 10 Jul 2013, 7:13 pm
- Forum: Royal International Air Tattoo
- Topic: RIAT 2013 Participants
- Replies: 397
- Views: 90620
Re: RIAT 2013 Participants
Probably not. A lot of GA pilots pay their own way for things like fly ins. Commercial teams / display acts are more bound by finacial governance obligations so possibly not a straight swap. Fair enough. Do DBH approach them or do they ring up DBH and ask to be a part of the show? I can only speak ...
- Wed 10 Jul 2013, 6:48 pm
- Forum: Royal International Air Tattoo
- Topic: RIAT 2013 Participants
- Replies: 397
- Views: 90620
Re: RIAT 2013 Participants
Probably not. A lot of GA pilots pay their own way for things like fly ins. Commercial teams / display acts are more bound by finacial governance obligations so possibly not a straight swap.
- Wed 10 Jul 2013, 6:43 pm
- Forum: Royal International Air Tattoo
- Topic: RIAT 2013 Participants
- Replies: 397
- Views: 90620
Re: RIAT 2013 Participants
How much were they wanting to show up for the static? I assume at least transit costs of fuel and hotels for 3 nights. Anyone know what they were looking for and how this compares with their display fee? I am sure if it they had offered to appear for no/ minimal fee on static it would have been nuts...