The Vampire flew on the Friday. Everything was scrubbed on Thursday and it was never down to display on Sunday according to the online schedules. Not sure about Saturday. Ah right, thanks. Sadly she didn’t fly on the Saturday and I don’t believe on Sunday either, although I wasn’t there that day to...

Conversely & in spite of the blue skies, I thought the attendance on the Sunday of Bournemouth Air Festival was markedly down on previous iterations. Noticeable also that many people decided to dump their cars anywhere they could find a space local to the over-cliff & pay the fine, rather t...

BOB.T wrote:I noticed tonight on a close up that there's in writing on the tail of one of the jets. Is this still from the 'names on a plane' thing from a couple of years ago? If it is my girlfriend will be well chuffed as I had her name added

indeed it was, still siting proud on Desmonds tail

I think made with a big eye on the us market with the usuall ,when they come back they tell you of 5 mins what you just watched and a little of whats to come

Blue was thorough yesterday ! all pockets and i mean all pockets wanded ,contents visually checked also even asked me to remove my hat , but strangely my M&S large cool bag....... nothing

chrisward123 wrote:Anybody any idea on next years theme?

Battle of Britain 80th ?

Mr Benn wrote:Great positive post above Speedbird. Thats the kind of positve post I'm looking for .

I'm gonna read that over and over.

Indeed second that , further to speedbirds post this is the why and wherefores https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/about/17185651

austinp wrote:

jasonT1981 wrote:First arrival.

[tweet]https://twitter.com/BAESystemsAir/status/1150749579761061888[/tweet]

A giant model kit

Saw it a FIA Last year , thought come on BAE that's the worst Plastic F35 model I've seen ..... Then i saw the news

Outstanding amazing film. Watched it last night , just wished in the extras they explained a little bit of how they restored it to made it look like it was filmed recently not 75 years ago .

A nice easy lazy Sunday ,hopefully without the need to direct traffic on my way in this year

Hi

Did the same a couple of years back with my 5 year old GS , i brought a pair from Clas Olson very cheap but very good . He didn't like wearing them until we saw and i brought a pair of Red Arrows ones, on site

Must say i think Friday is made to take the nippers on ,it was a great day

Amp wrote:That looks great, but which one is it?

Found this in the planning app "The aircraft was previously sited as the gate guardian at RAF Sealand" Hunter F.51 WT720

https://www.basingstokegazette.co.uk/ne ... on=success

At local company Centrprise ,it would seem to honour the owner Rafi Razzak’s father.

I believe the very last Middle Wallop ,rain so dense could only see about 15 feet in any direction heard a tornado fly by it cleared enough for the harrier but no hover or bounce to save the grass

Does any body know why up to 3 Eagles flew over Watership Down (north Hampshire) southwards yesterday about 4:50 at relativity low level . Saw two could have sworn i heard a third , never seen this way before and usually nothing but crockery shaking Rotary and the odd fast jet item transiting from R...

All that just to get a Tie

[quote="Tmyers123"]In the last year or so, I’ve read:

“Apache” by Ed Macy (An incredible story, couldn’t put the book down).

I went the to event/ talk he gave at Middle Wallop Fantastic evening , it is a must

Am currently reading The big show By Pierre Clostermann very good read

Thanks for those maps! Where do you guys think would be a good place to watch it over the Army HQ in Andover? Was thinking of this point but have no idea of the area. m I'd say outside Travelodge would work best, but without knowing the direction they'll overfly it's difficult to say. That was my o...

Brevet Cable wrote:

skidd40 wrote:...park in the travel lodge

Presumably they're OK with non-tenants rocking up & using their car park, then?

There was no problem with the Lynx farewell , there's but if it's a worry most of the area just across the A303 is basically a industrial/retail park

Just had an email from our local airfield. A 3 ship Tornado formation will be passing over our village, north to south at 2000ft. A little clue as to date and location would be MUCH appreciated! 20th at 13:30. We are on the Benson to Land Army HQ Andover leg. Rather not give the exact location as t...

I would also vote for the museum at Vigna da Valle. I went from Rome on the local train - took about an hour and was very cheap. However note that the station at Vigna da Valle is a country halt with no taxis and about 3 miles from the museum - a pleasant walk on a nice day as we found out! If I we...

Ideally, they think "out of the box" to provide something different but booking the Blades is very much "in the box". Couple of flypasts by civi airliners...and/or a raid of Duxford's display items. I must say though that the take off and landing at the Same-ish time malarkey ,t...

jules48 wrote:It was not said in any derogatory manner and not meant to be sarcastic.ffs

+1

PeterR wrote:

BossMann wrote:2019 will also be the 55th Anniversary of the Red Arrows

Since when has the "55th Anniversary" been a thing...?

Oh about the same time promotional straw clutching started