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- Sun 21 Apr 2024, 10:33 am
- Forum: Royal International Air Tattoo
- Topic: RIAT 2024 wishlist.
- Replies: 752
- Views: 205371
Re: RIAT 2024 wishlist.
they wont attend RIAT, imo only static from the French this year. Thanks for the update Peter. He was comically indept in his pronouncements last year - could just about put money on the opposite. File them under ignore! Dont be foolish and use your common sense, the chances of them appearing at RI...
- Sat 20 Apr 2024, 9:18 am
- Forum: Royal International Air Tattoo
- Topic: RIAT 2024 wishlist.
- Replies: 752
- Views: 205371
Re: RIAT 2024 wishlist.
He was comically indept in his pronouncements last year - could just about put money on the opposite.capercaillie wrote: ↑Sat 20 Apr 2024, 8:13 amThanks for the update Peter.bobby 1211 wrote: ↑Fri 19 Apr 2024, 6:07 pmthey wont attend RIAT, imo only static from the French this year.
File them under ignore!
- Tue 16 Apr 2024, 11:22 pm
- Forum: Themed Photo Threads
- Topic: Topic of the week #101 Backlit Photos - Shooting into the sun
- Replies: 16
- Views: 819
Re: Topic of the week #101 Backlit Photos - Shooting into the sun
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49129944067_4fb3ffcfc2_h.jpg IMG_3371-01 by Andy Heap , on Flickr https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49135888847_7a679a4163_h.jpg Russian Yak-3 fighter by Andy Heap , on Flickr https://live.staticflickr.com/894/40621829254_1ddc13b012_h.jpg 383 (1) by Andy Heap ,...
- Fri 12 Apr 2024, 7:59 pm
- Forum: Aviation Waffle
- Topic: Interesting Internet
- Replies: 2479
- Views: 917350
Re: Interesting Internet
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- Thu 11 Apr 2024, 9:13 am
- Forum: Aviation Waffle
- Topic: Interesting Internet
- Replies: 2479
- Views: 917350
Re: Interesting Internet
That's certain airshows lunch breaks sorted then! This is a daft take, when was the last time a Wildcat was in a UK flying display, let alone as a pair, people who hold this opinion are a bunch of sausages. A friend of mine was a Military Heli Pilot. He described Helicopter displays as something re...
- Wed 10 Apr 2024, 11:14 pm
- Forum: Themed Photo Threads
- Topic: Topic of the Week #100: Hundredth Anniversar...eh? (RCAF 100)
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1193
Re: Topic of the Week #100: Hundredth Anniversar...eh? (RCAF 100)
I’ve just done a Google search which lead to a thread on Fighter Control. (Sorry but I couldn’t copy a link on my phone). This is the gist of it: “All 3 of the CAF CF-104 sqns of 1CAG(441, 439, 421) at Sollingen had a team at one time or another from 1970-1980. They were either 4 or 5 ship teams (3...
- Wed 10 Apr 2024, 8:57 pm
- Forum: Themed Photo Threads
- Topic: Topic of the Week #100: Hundredth Anniversar...eh? (RCAF 100)
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1193
Re: Topic of the Week #100: Hundredth Anniversar...eh? (RCAF 100)
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50042175733_2bd44928c8_o.jpg RCAF CF-104 Starfighter team Tiger Romeos Greenham Common 1977 by Andrew Shaw , on Flickr Andy Andy, any idea when they changed name to the Red Indians? They were happy days with a low level high speed entrance from over the crowd!
- Wed 10 Apr 2024, 7:46 am
- Forum: Themed Photo Threads
- Topic: Topic of the Week #100: Hundredth Anniversar...eh? (RCAF 100)
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1193
Re: Topic of the Week #100: Hundredth Anniversar...eh? (RCAF 100)
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53378227014_58831d566b_b.jpg F18-Mallet Blow 89-2 Canadian by Andy Heap , on Flickr Part of a 10 ship CF-18 attack on Otterburn Range during Exercise Mallet Blow in 1989. It was an order of magnitude better than ANYTHING I've ever seen at an 'airshow' Remember it...
- Tue 02 Apr 2024, 12:24 am
- Forum: Themed Photo Threads
- Topic: Topic of the week #99 - Anyone for a flake?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 912
Re: Topic of the week #99 - Anyone for a flake?
Just in the hold - 2-3 minutes to go. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53591735103_9a1ebab3c6_h.jpg RNZAF Red Checkers heading to Christchurch from the North by Andy Heap , on Flickr RNZAF Seasprites https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/41306619801_6562612297_h.jpg Seasprites by Andy Heap , on Fli...
- Sat 30 Mar 2024, 7:58 am
- Forum: RAF Cosford Air Show
- Topic: Cosford Airshow 2024 - 9th June 2024
- Replies: 262
- Views: 51479
Re: Cosford Airshow 2024 - 9th June 2024
https://twitter.com/cosfordairshow/status/1773787212468879801 Typhoon of course hasn't been 'in service' for 30 years - Instead Typhoon first flew 30 years ago - remember DA2s first from Warton a couple of weeks later. Also EAP in 86 It feels like Cosford have been putting out hyped announcements f...
- Fri 29 Mar 2024, 8:33 am
- Forum: Airshow Photos
- Topic: Warbirds Over Scone 2024. ***UPDATED 01 APR***
- Replies: 6
- Views: 916
Re: Warbirds Over Scone 2024.
nice photos and a nice selection of machinery.
Scone is quite an event - shame it is in the middle of nowhere!
Scone is quite an event - shame it is in the middle of nowhere!
- Fri 29 Mar 2024, 12:34 am
- Forum: Royal International Air Tattoo
- Topic: RIAT 2024 - discuss most things thread
- Replies: 1252
- Views: 667492
Re: RIAT 2024 - discuss most things thread
I see Austria is 'ongoing' - more likely to come in a Zeltweg year when they have displays worked up. Shame the RAF don't support Zeltweg really - would help the case with a bit of tit for tat swapping I'm sure. The QRA Pair of Typhoons is awesome but the Austrians have other displays - for example ...
- Fri 29 Mar 2024, 12:09 am
- Forum: Royal International Air Tattoo
- Topic: RIAT 2024 - discuss most things thread
- Replies: 1252
- Views: 667492
Re: RIAT 2024 - discuss most things thread
You might know exactly but as a quick guesstimate - with over 40 years of F-16s at IAT at say 10-20 examples a year on average ( flying, spares and static) . Must be over 500 total F-16 appearances - pushing toward 1000? Go on , I'm game! Your numbers aren't far out by my reckoning, First appeared ...
- Thu 28 Mar 2024, 11:24 pm
- Forum: Royal International Air Tattoo
- Topic: RIAT 2024 - discuss most things thread
- Replies: 1252
- Views: 667492
Re: RIAT 2024 - discuss most things thread
Not knocking the Slovenian display as last time I saw it I was very impressed, just not an update to get very excited about. A static Spartan doesn’t set the world on fire for me whether is Slovenian or from a country never heard of. Hope mentioning of just the static US participation doesn’t mean ...
- Wed 27 Mar 2024, 9:34 pm
- Forum: Royal International Air Tattoo
- Topic: RIAT 2024 - discuss most things thread
- Replies: 1252
- Views: 667492
Re: RIAT 2024 - discuss most things thread
The Polish F-16 was fantastic at Radom last year - my favorite fast jet solo display of the show . This was mainly because it flew both days in the late evening light and was a total flares fest. Pretty much the same for Pat Suisse. Fairford would be so much better with Flares and Evening flying - ...
- Wed 27 Mar 2024, 9:26 pm
- Forum: Royal International Air Tattoo
- Topic: RIAT 2024 - discuss most things thread
- Replies: 1252
- Views: 667492
Re: RIAT 2024 - discuss most things thread
The Polish F-16 was fantastic at Radom last year - my favorite fast jet solo display of the show . This was mainly because it flew both days in the late evening light and was a total flares fest. Pretty much the same for Pat Suisse. Fairford would be so much better with Flares and Evening flying - c...
- Tue 26 Mar 2024, 9:10 pm
- Forum: Airshow Photos
- Topic: Props & Pistons 2022: America's Anti-Mollis/Zeltweg
- Replies: 2
- Views: 521
Re: Props & Pistons 2022: America's Anti-Mollis/Zeltweg
I like the backdrop!
- Sun 24 Mar 2024, 7:58 am
- Forum: Themed Photo Threads
- Topic: Topic of the week #98:A10
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1578
Re: Topic of the week #98:A10
Back from the 80s at RAF Wainfleet... https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53376047311_3196f4dea0_b.jpg Strafe! by Andy Heap , on Flickr and this is its party trick https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53376368579_b0d439fced_b.jpg Strafing- by Andy Heap , on Flickr I misspent my youth watching these :)
- Sat 23 Mar 2024, 12:27 am
- Forum: North American Events
- Topic: Pacific Airshow 2024, Huntington Beach, California Oct 4-6th
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1082
Re: Pacific Airshow 2024, Huntington Beach, California Oct 4-6th
Far better show at Reno same weekend!
- Thu 21 Mar 2024, 11:00 pm
- Forum: Aviation Waffle
- Topic: Interesting Internet
- Replies: 2479
- Views: 917350
Re: Interesting Internet
I could be wrong, but I don’t think a special coloured jet materially affects a nation’s warfighting capabilities (the special Dannebrog F-16, for instance, was used on a live QRA intercept of a Russian aircraft). And if this is indeed WTD61, it’s not even a frontline unit. It’s a test and developm...
- Thu 21 Mar 2024, 9:39 pm
- Forum: Aviation Waffle
- Topic: Interesting Internet
- Replies: 2479
- Views: 917350
Re: Interesting Internet
https://www.instagram.com/p/C4xmGiisDXq/?igsh=cmZ2cXZ5Mzg2emUx https://twitter.com/airbusdefence/status/1770775939787415913?s=46&t=MrByk9E0ZD1fN2EAXOlQkw What a Horrible mess. I'd have thought the Germans might be more interested in sorting their military out so that it has some capability to a...
- Thu 21 Mar 2024, 7:35 pm
- Forum: Farnborough International Airshow
- Topic: FIA 2024
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2639
Re: FIA 2024
Ah yes that!
- Thu 21 Mar 2024, 7:34 pm
- Forum: Farnborough International Airshow
- Topic: FIA 2024
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2639
Re: FIA 2024
One plus, you do get to see some heavies thrown around unlike RIAT where just seeing a heavy in the air is a rare treat. That's the draw for me, oh and it's a 15 minute drive... :D I used to work on the airfield - but could not see the approach or runway from the workshop. Always needed to get some...
- Wed 20 Mar 2024, 9:30 am
- Forum: Royal International Air Tattoo
- Topic: 'The face of things to come'
- Replies: 51
- Views: 5352
Re: 'The face of things to come'
Off topic I know but it is about "things to come". How do people plan their day out at RIAT at the moment if they have an electric car, allowing for say a three hour journey there, a big queue getting in/out and same journey home? What happens when the vast majority of attendees have elec...
- Wed 20 Mar 2024, 3:49 am
- Forum: Farnborough International Airshow
- Topic: FIA 2024
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2639
Re: FIA 2024
Farnborough Airshow 2024, not hoping for much but hopefully they can pull something interesting from RIAT to display Who cares about F'boro - more like can't Fairford get something that's going to be at F'boro ? Shame I first went in 76 and already its reputation was better than the reality - and b...