I'll be going as always. My first airshow in 1998 and now a shadow of what has been in previous years; NL F-16 Mirage Jag 2 Tonkas KC135 B1 Harrier Nimrod even a DHL 757! I wonder if Bournemouth has now taken a lot of the forces' involvement as well as having a nearby tarmac runway rather than Shor...

cg_341 wrote: ↑

Mon 26 Jun 2023, 8:48 pm

Ah yes, those well known Virgin Atlantic 737s...

G-UKLB Boeing 737-400 Virgin Atlantic Airways from Mar 1993 for about 12 months.......so they could be right......though I have my doubts

Great update, and very poignant with the Lancaster memorial section. It is so good to know that they are looked after so well by the locals.
For a bit of completeness, your Pakistan AF Hercs are both former Belgian examples, hence their presence on your departure from Belgium.

Questions over future funding:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4nel1xlv4qo

Commentary wasn't by BJTV by any chance was it?

Thanks for your comments, much appreciated

On Saturday I was lucky enough to get access to the visiting T-6Cs on their way to Tunisia. Thanks to all the staff and crews involved that made it possible https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52899099172_435b2fae84_h.jpg DSCF1979-1 by MSPhotography , on Flickr https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52...

Every year that I have done west they have come along the queue scanning tickets before the gates have been opened. That person has been followed close behind by someone else selling/scanning the remaining 'day' tickets to those requiring them. I have never witnessed anyone being let in for nothing ...

Has anyone criticising the size/content of the flypast even considered that the future King may not actually want a huge flypast given the fact that he has been beating the green/conservation drum for many many years?

And Keevil, if previous years are anything to go by

https://www.europeanairshows.co.uk/schedules/czech-air-force-alca-display-team Czech AF ALCA pair listed for RIAT23 here... https://www.europeanairshows.co.uk/schedules/czech-air-force-gripen-solo-display?s=09 Also Czech JAS-39 too.... Is that really a self confirmation of attending or a leak / gue...

Full statement and future airfield layout shows 6 acres for housing

https://www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/news ... wi-jQUgOss

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Sat 04 Mar 2023, 12:37 pm

Brevet Cable wrote: ↑

Thu 02 Mar 2023, 5:20 pm

Felt sure I'd caught the Gripen operating over this Country - usual Devon/Cornwall area the Alphajet tends to work in.

ETPS marked Gripen has been to RIAT recently(ish) too.

2008 I think

(even though puma should never have been bought in the first place, should have gone with UH-60 back then) That would have been a bloody wonderful bit of magic by MOD Procurement, given that the Puma entered RAF service several years before the UH-60 first flew and almost 10 years before it first e...

Cole wrote: ↑

Mon 06 Feb 2023, 1:10 pm

It's unusual to get both of the RRHF?

Bournemouth have had both at the show

If stories/comments elsewhere are correct, all 3 of them ( XV666, XZ920, ZA166 ) are now all in Ukr. Surprised 'Damien' was sent, as that's the one HeliOps have been using until very recently. Wonder how long it'll be before the Rus propagandists pick up on that particular airframe, given their oft...

The 1 mile exclusion zone only counts up to 1500ft so as long as you don't bust that you can over fly, these are from a previous carrier visit, USS George H W Bush: https://live.staticflickr.com/4394/36699473842_e124cf86a6_k.jpg GHWB (5) by MSPhotography , on Flickr https://live.staticflickr.com/436...

Wow! That is disgraceful, the punter isn't being offered anything that they couldn't do themselves for a fraction of the cost with one of the tour companies at the harbour. I cannot believe people are actually going to pay that! I can do a flight in a Cessna with friends for less than that for aeria...

I would have expected wildcat to transit to and from yeovilton and also typhoon to fly in for show only as the chinnock does. Any civil & reds I would expect to base themselves at airport You would expect wrongly then I'm afraid. All of those you mention stay at Bournemouth for the duration of ...

Typhoon and Firebirds dusk displays were superb, reheat from the Typhoon lit up the sky. All the crowd did a Coldplay with their phones at the end of the Firebirds, apparently it was spontaneous on Friday but rehearsed last night. The ''Coldplay with phones'' bit on the Friday was at the request of...

I don't usually watch stuff like this but that was absolutely fascinating!

I may have overlooked the information somewhere but does anyone know how much tickets are on the day for departures? It just says sold out on the website. Thanks I was wondering that as well, left it to late this year, so will be in the 'ticket' queue at stupid o'clock, staying at Totters so only 1...

According to the source material quoted by the Wiki entry, 62-4552 was due to move from preservation in Pakistan to the IHM at W/Super Mare (no dates given) so that may be where the confusion lies.

I have to echo the above comment, great event, from an aircraft point of view and also the organisational side too. Had the air of a village fete feel to it and the organisers should be proud of that. Was also well attended by the public at large and not just the aviation community. To the poster th...

When solo jet display aircraft arrive with drop tanks guess its sometimes easier to fly the display with them because they dont have ground crew with the correct equipment to remove them ? Surely the pilot can just press a button to get them off 🙈 They could make it a party game! Peg the Droptank t...