Professor_M wrote: ↑

Tue 26 Nov 2024, 6:11 pm

Given how rare the ex-RAF VC10 now are, I must make another trip there to see ZA150 again at some point soon - did you manage to get any photos of it?

No I didn't stray from the new road and the sun was behind it!

ps if you are sort of down that way there's also the RN Hunter at former RAF Ford

Took a walk there today, hoping I'd see more than you can from a car but it doesn't appear to be the case. There are cones everywhere at the end of the new access road from the A281 but doesn't appear to be anything else in the way of security to stop you walking onto the live runway (a Cessna / Pip...

I was at Hyde Park Corner when they unveiled the Australian War Memorial on 11.11.2003. At 1100 a jet flew directly overhead but couldn't see it due to low cloud. I wondered if it might have been a Canberra. According to Wiki the ceremony ended with a flypast of Jaguars although I had left by then. ...

Are the RAFAT on their way back from Canada? (probably not the best thread to ask)

I know it's the BoB show but re-enactments after all these years are hardly appropriate, especially not a single Buchon against a Big Wing of RAF fighters.

Yes the Walton music is far more appropriate.

I wasn't there but looking at the photos posted elsewhere it seems the Buchon was once again used as an example of the enemy to be shot down complete with smoke. I hope we didn't have the cringeworthy commentary which I've heard before!

It was 85 years ago FCS can't we move on?

I gave up on traditional glue together models decades ago and now just collect diecasts. The quality is superb (yes they cost a lot more) but they are not really suited to being repainted, there doesn't seem to be any way to get them apart so you'd need a lot of masking.

Thinking of heading but can't really afford the £50. Is there any where nearby I can park and just watch from a distance? Thanks guys in a word No. There is no parking anywhere near apart from the car parks, Duxford village and Grange Road are all no parking / entry on the day. If you're prepared t...

bobby 1211 wrote: ↑

Mon 26 Aug 2024, 8:57 pm

I plan on watching the airshow from Boscombe Pier, hopefully I'll get a decent view

A bit too far East; I recommend top of the cliffs

https://maps.app.goo.gl/2DHxTT9LB5VewK5PA

I went up there in 2005; pretty miserable day weatherwise. Highlight was the DHL 757 over my head then it all got quite low visibility and went back down to the seafront. As I said upthread there are many punters happy to pay the parking (£25 per car including a programme which is a steal if there a...

Exactly that Timuss & IP1960! Since Aug 22nd 2015 the World of Air Displays has been disproportionately & adversely affected by the quest to prevent another incident like Shoreham. Beachy Head as a location for photographing arriving & departing aircraft for Airbourne Eastbourne was inc...

I noticed that the free pin badge that came with the programme has a parachute....

Yes hope to be there for 2025

I was there on Friday, Car park on the top of Beachy Head is £25 !, aircraft are dots, not coming near at all Not sure which is the greatest surprise in that Statement, oh! wait, Beachy Head has been a designated no-fly zone for years. (following that incident a little west of Beachy) Display aircr...

Lancaster also not flying today due to weather. And to top it off no Draken due to bad weather at Bournemouth, glad I chose not to take a half day from work and head down today then, not a great day for the airshow at all. Yes a bit disappointing but we had 4 excellent displays, it's a free show af...

Draken only Thu / Fri hope they find something for Sat / Sun Why is the Draken on a weekday? Couldn't get time off for a weekday myself(notice was too short),but don't see the point of going to the weekend one now. I think it would be better if they just made this a weekend show over two days. Due ...

There are a couple of Sat-Sun only displays (OK not fast noisy jets) so presumably the Draken is to fill their slots Thu-Fri.

The plane in question seems to have been painted so many times!

This looks like the best scheme (or easiest at least!) and looks the right shade of grey

https://www.airhistory.net/photo/100689/ZH885

Ok thanks; I'm not that worried about any small gaps around the round windows. It arrived yesterday but was the E/H not J model so it's gone back, I want one in the all over grey livery and the E/H model it has decals for was scrapped long before they changed the livery (they are also much too big!)...

Ok thanks; I'm not that worried about any small gaps around the round windows. It arrived yesterday but was the E/H not J model so it's gone back, I want one in the all over grey livery and the E/H model it has decals for was scrapped long before they changed the livery (they are also much too big!)...

I visited today but stayed off-site; actually got a better view of the planes as they were SO far away, although not of the helis. The Chinook spend ages circling and climbing to a very great height but eventually aborted the paras drop. Very spirited performances by the F15QA and F-16. The Italian ...

I think the Hawks took over in 1978. I read that the T2 are due to got out of service by 2040 so doesn't seem much point swapping them for 10 years.

Out of interest how long did RAFAT take to transition from Gnats to Hawks? I used to go to Brighton seafront every year to watch the Gnats display (not sure how everyone knew in pre internet days, they just did) Then took a break, in 1980 I was in Brighton but not on the seafront when the Hawk hit a...

I've bitten the bullet and ordered an Italeri C-130J, my first actual plastic kit for decades. I want to spray it but preferably once the fuselage / wings are completed. Would the panel recommend putting the windows in and masking or some other method like trying to insert them once painted? Much ea...

it was around the time the idea of using Typhoons was doing the rounds; and was to do with formation rather than solo aerobatics

is it still the case that you get a daily flying schedule on the day by showing a programme? I'd like to know Saturday's timetable in advance of the day.