I believe it’s this:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2021/ ... eroes-cast

Not so common these days, with less than half the fleet left in service.

The world’s most expensive gas cylinders.

Orion wrote: ↑

Thu 01 Apr 2021, 3:06 pm

https://www.iwm.org.uk/membership
Gone up a lot, not clear yet how much it will cost to attend Duxford without membership.

Up £5 from last year, hardly ‘a lot’

Duxford website shows adult admission is £22.70, or £25 with gift aid.

Tommy wrote: ↑

Wed 24 Mar 2021, 11:21 am

...oodles of service life left in them.

Not really, which was why the RAF were funding the centre wing replacement programme on the 14 aircraft they intended keeping

The last B(I)8 in preservation in the U.K., given away by the RAF Museum Cosford.

The 16 Tranche 1 two-seater Typhoons have already been parted-out for spares for the rest of the fleet, and then scrapped. I’m sure the 24 single-seaters will follow this route once they are withdrawn.

Older Chinooks to be retired, Puma to be replaced by a new medium-lift helicopter ‘in the mid-2020s’.

Hawk T1 slated for retirement in today’s Defence Review announcement

However, the ‘Integrated Force 2030’ graphic in the Defence Review document specifically shows the Red Arrows, so presumably there will be a much-rumoured Hawk T2 buy to re-equip them at some point.

With museum admission being £14 on a normal day, I’d say £17 for the event (including admission to the museum) is something of a bargain.

And it is even more if you want to visit the museum as well !! Surely when this sort of event is planned as a museum fund raiser the least they could do is include museum admission in the ticket price. I have no issue with an arrivals day / early bird / paddock access at extra price assuming that i...

A shame, that was the last flying original-spec Heron. At least it has been saved, but it seems a big ask for an individual without substantial funding behind him to put it back in the air.

Perhaps (God forbid!) Piers Morgan was right after all...

The Shuttleworth website says this is an evening event? Is that correct? Oh, and also you only need a £15 daily entrance ticket and not a £10 car space and £34 adult ticket which is what happens if you click on that event on the events page? Thanks. I think you’re confusing this with the evening ai...

So if you add that lot up, it’s a reduction of around 200 airframes from planned levels. Not to mention the already-announced loss of 736 Sqn’s Hawk T1s this year.

A total reduction larger than most countries’ entire Air Forces.

I'm also expecting the additional 12 AH-64Es (50 promised, 38 ordered) to quietly fall off the table too (or are they already part of the reduction of 45 helicopters?)

This will most likely mean one of Wattisham or Middle Wallop will close.

However, I'm with you Tommy: bin the carriers and stick to being what we might be able to resource, a European country defending itself through NATO. Empire is long over. That doesn’t fit with Boris’ post-Brexit narrative though. He likes his shiny, big-ticket projects, usually at the expense of er...

The RAF Typhoon Display Team are preparing for PDA, and the Tutor team have announced a display pilot for this season.

This is rather controversial to say the least. Peter Jackson did indeed want to remake the movie, but was told that no Hollywood studio would allow him to produce it unless he changed the dog’s name. He said it was part of the story and refused, ergo no remake. Where did you read that, the Daily Ma...

iainpeden wrote:Apparently in process…

Your source for this information?

AndyXH558 wrote: ↑

Fri 05 Mar 2021, 9:12 am

...a testament to the Late Richard Grace who rebuilt ML407...

*Nick* Grace

Lakenheath F-35A
Heritage Flight with F-35 and P-51

Tommy wrote: ↑

Tue 02 Mar 2021, 11:46 am

RIAT Air Ops wrote: ↑

Tue 02 Mar 2021, 11:42 am

(PS: Less than 500 days to go until RIAT 2022 so I'm surprised at the lack of wishlist thread... )

Don’t start! I was hoping we could hold out on “Swedish Historics?” until at least June

Can we have some German MiG-29s too please?

Andyph wrote: ↑

Fri 12 Feb 2021, 3:42 am

I was hoping to catch the FE2's at Masterton...

I think there's only one flying now, as they wrecked the other one a few years back