They last taxied them back in 2016

There is a precedent for this, as they named the F-16 ‘Jastrząb’ (Goshawk) and M.346 ‘Bielik’ (white-tailed eagle) in Polish service.

I wonder what the Polish is for ‘slug’?

Polish F-16 Tiger Demo have Fairford on their published schedule, still unconfirmed by DBH.

Are they going to tow Night Fright down the A14 from Coventry?

Stagger2 wrote: ↑

Tue 09 Apr 2024, 1:44 pm

…with the Olympics in France over that period there must be severe doubts about any chance of attending Duxford?

The Olympics don’t start until almost 2 months later, at the end of July.

For those without an encyclopaedic knowledge of royal events, this is taking place on Saturday 15th June.

Predictions for next week anyone?

I’ll start with the cancellation of the NATO E-3A

Source for the information about the Gnat team’s non-attendance is the Facebook page of one of the team’s trustees/pilots.

The Gnat team have said that they will categorically NOT be attending RIAT.

The Blades have been defunct for a year now

There was also the French AF ‘Mustang X-ray’ PC-21 pair in 2022

I saw them at St Dizier in 2022 and thought they were excellent, probably my favourite display of the day.

Orion wrote: ↑

Sun 31 Mar 2024, 3:30 pm

Mike wrote: ↑

Fri 29 Mar 2024, 6:48 pm

Is there any news on Night Fright? Restoration updates seem to have dried up altogether.

https://www.night-fright.com/world-war-2/

The last news on that site is from 2020.

Is there any news on Night Fright? Restoration updates seem to have dried up altogether.

According to stagger in the La Ferté-Alais thread, the French Navy have supposedly officially confirmed they'll not be supporting any airshows domestic or overseas (they're not even attending NTM). That sucks. (I also should be a bit more cautious posting this info here too as I know this is how Ch...

p2philip wrote: ↑

Fri 29 Mar 2024, 11:51 am

Never heard of a PC-6 display before and that wouldn’t be very exciting either.

I guess you’ve never seen Clay Lacy’s excellent PC-6 display.

Final USMC Harrier demo to be flown at Cherry Point airshow in May

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/42ZzaC ... tid=WC7FNe

No, just the prototype JAS 39E that was at last year’s RIAT.

I still dont understand why the Polish Air Force is so reluctant to showcase their sovet-era aircraft at airshows, especially considering that they will be retired soon. If last year’s Radom airshow is anything to go by, they are sending a very clear message to Russia, regarding both aircraft and m...

Tang(o) perhaps?

Or they could just buy SH-60s like everyone else, or NH90 NFHs for commonality with their transport fleet. The costs of putting a type that has been out of production for 5+ years back into production for just a handful of orders would surely make the Wildcat an unviable proposition. Especially as t...

Covered in the Interesting Internet (Historic Aviation) thread.

phreakf4 wrote: ↑

Mon 18 Mar 2024, 2:39 pm

Possible B-17 or B-24 prop blade discovered in Ireland

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/ww ... 51fc&ei=19

The article mentions Scotland.

What could possibly go wrong? 🤷🏼‍♂️ Well at least he's not going for rocket power I guess, light touch paper and retreat. And the glider flies well in Germany. The glider was grounded around a decade ago due to structural concerns. It is occasionally taken to events for static display (as at Melun ...

I think the first flying one at Mildenhall was in 1983.