Is one of the German Tonkas going to be the specially painted 50th Anniv jet? The mentioned Tornados are from TLG51 (Tiger) and WTD61 (Test). The 50 anniversary Tornado is with TLG 33. The only active WTD61 IDS I can find is the 98+59, not sure if you want to count this as special livery but I pers...

AARDVARK wrote: ↑

Thu 04 Apr 2024, 12:58 pm

Is one of the German Tonkas going to be the specially painted 50th Anniv jet?

The mentioned Tornados are from TLG51 (Tiger) and WTD61 (Test).
The 50 anniversary Tornado is with TLG 33.

Certainly striking, but I've no idea what all that psychadelic puff the magic dragon stuff going on in the middle represents. WTD61 have not been historically great sending specials across in the past, so don't get any hopes up. I believe the aircraft 43+92 belongs to TLG 33 from Büchel and was onl...

https://twitter.com/combatair/status/1770549570662969541?s=46&t=MrByk9E0ZD1fN2EAXOlQkw As I understand from a German site. It was to commemorate the first landing of a German Sea King at Kiel-Holtenau exactly 50 years ago to the minute! And the last vist to Kiel. Not yet retired. Decommissionin...

As I read it. Herby presumes 5 Rafale from ECE01/030 but still could be mix of Rafales and Mirages.

I can't make the open days (and tickets have already sold out) but seeing how easy it was to get over there for Air Defender I'm considering a couple of days. What are the 'normal' day movements like for Tiger Meets? Herby at Scramble mentioning the following and he knows well: The participants wil...

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Wed 29 Nov 2023, 10:17 am

Not sure how accurate/reliable this source is so take with a pinch of salt.

Also here:

https://www.flightglobal.com/defence/sl ... 30.article

Beautiful pictures
Great light and (sky) colours.

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Wes_Howes wrote: ↑

Thu 07 Sep 2023, 10:33 am

Some great images here but most of them are far too over-processed for my tastes.

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/t ... -it-before

It looks like a computer game.

So first picture is two U-2s at 70,000 feet in formation.

Thanks to a post on Scramble pointing to this Eurocontrol document https://www.eurocontrol.int/publication/european-network-operations-plan-2023-rolling-seasonal-plan The 2024 Tiger Meet will be hosted by Germany (base TBC) and run from 6th June 2024 to 14th June 2024. ... thus neatly missing next ...

Lots of people fainting because you could only bring 500ml of water! The queues to the *LIMITED* water refill points are massive. BTW there are still people waiting to get into the showground at 2pm local time. Joke. Decided to leave as it is not healthy to stay out there it is to hot. Really huge ...

Well bobby 1211's list is a 'simple' calculation of everything which mentioned in the sublime air show app interactive maps (mentioned by Andyph) and items mentioned before on the air show internet site. He even mentions what is new on the maps not mentioned before. In the app and interactive maps n...

My thoughts having attended on Saturday. Good points.... Well laid out static display. Maybe no jaw dropping stand-out items but a good variety nonetheless. The Fitter, F-4, Harriers, Dutch F-35s, Metrea KC135, and Mil 17 being some of my favourites. There seemed to be a few gaps here and there no ...

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Anything known about support arriving today (at end of the show)?

USAF Osprey and MC130 very good Luftwaffe A400 and Tonkas excellent RAF Voyager with (can’t even spare our own aircraft for flyby)no hose even extended.. pathetic! Pathetic is a bit over the top, it was supposed to be with the Swedish Gripen also and did you not see the conditions just before they ...

https://twitter.com/BabakTaghvaee1/status/1677640984992120833?t=O8rtBGR26bwIVFLhxRUBpw&s=19 Has anyone any clue what the four C-17s were there for? As written, the reason given seems rather nonsensical.... They brought in 240 troops of Indian Army Navy and Air force which will participate in th...

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Thu 29 Jun 2023, 11:46 am

Are all the Gripen E's in that nice camo or are some standard grey?

https://www.airtattoo.com/airshow/aircr ... b-gripen-e

Camo!

Any chance one being a Brazilian one...
Brazil is still on going...

https://twitter.com/rotorfocus/status/1670324724545585152?s=46&t=MrByk9E0ZD1fN2EAXOlQkw Looks a bit like Airwolf, but 40 years, lots of drugs and a couple of divorces later. Like it’d be in one of those “you won’t believe what these celebrities look like now” articles. I've no idea what you had...

Looks like they pulling sligtly up but no.2 is going down or is to slow in handling instead.

One light injured on the ground from glass because of the debris.

The thing that has surprised me is the very little (if any) foreign air force participation to celebrate the event, The Swiss one had a huge amount of foreign participants as did the RAF 100 at Fairford. Is this maybe why RIAT has adopted it as a key event for this year? Even others branches of the...

Yes, it will in Qatari colours, pre-delivery. The plan is to park alongside it alongside the Qatari Hawks and 12 Squadron Typhoon. Please can 12 Squadron be reminded of the importance of showing off the aircraft they've brought to a public event, and not leaving the covers on because "it's too...

Not quoting everything and everyone just a few remarks. The swiss had 2 referenda One against the first order for the 28 Gripens to replace the F-5 so no deal A second if a new fighter could be bought to replace F-5 and F-18, choice to be made by government, referenda being positive which led to the...

FOST Dauphin is rare. Great

Tommy wrote: ↑

Wed 07 Jun 2023, 7:31 am

What's with the date February 20, 2018!?

First full confirmation list, apart from Greek Armed Forces which will be added later. Lot of European known demos program looks a lot like RIAT Team Aguila, PC-7 team, Al Fursan (to be confirmed) and Saudi Hawks Danish Belgium and Greek F-16, French Rafale. Special is yet another Saudi fighter demo...