There was a mock air race at Cranfield in the 1980s.

It seems their cunning plan to polish it back to airworthiness has come to nothing

Well, nobody can accuse you of being unambitious

Not all are configured for jumps

Andyph wrote: ↑

Sat 17 Feb 2024, 12:18 am

Doesn't seem that long ago the RAF ran Finningley, Leuchars, Abingdon and St Athan all on the same day !

Not the same day, two shows a day on consecutive weekends.

A nice selection and good to see a reminder of the olden days when the Belgians used to show off their Air Force.

Shouldn’t this have been posted in the ‘Golden Oldies’ Photos section though?

It’s not just the F-35 effect, air arms in general are winding down their airshow commitments. It wasn’t so long ago in the U.K. we had solo Hawk, RAF Sea King, Team Merlin, Attack Helicopter Demo, Tucano, RN Merlin demo, Harrier, Tornado F3, Tornado GR, Nimrod, Hercules, Sea Harrier. All gone, and ...

They’re not acrobatic, or aerobatic either.

Unlike the Red Bull Bo 105 that’s appearing at Ragley Hall in early June.

That’s a shame, looking at that list it seems there’s no ALCA pair this year.

You’ll miss them when they’re gone. We’re running out of jet teams in Europe with the loss of Team 60, Breitling, Iskry, later this year the Patrouille Suisse. Not to mention the likes of Diables Rouge, Asas de Portugal and Karo As since I’ve been attending airshows. Patrulla Aquila must be on borro...

A shame DHMC stopped doing their charity flying weekends, I had some great flights in rare types over the years.

And another one that is a picture of a Harrier that seems to suggest they will be having the Red Arrows.

B-17 Flying Fortress

Ok so what was wrong with them? The RAF website offers no clues https://www.raf.mod.uk/aircraft/juno- Probably because the purchase had nothing whatever to do with the RAF The purchase was intended to replace AAC Gazelles in Northern Ireland, but they were never used and put into storage as soon as...

Still a 45-year old Malibu though

Polish? Or Czech Sokol?

JMC wrote: ↑

Mon 05 Feb 2024, 2:36 pm

Isn't that practically a Hawk T2 in which the Reds said it was too powerful to fly in formation?

Really? I find that hard to believe. Do you have anything to back that up?

There’s been a thread on this for a while

viewtopic.php?t=90051

I hardly think it will be ‘out of hours’ with only 2,000 hours flown

I suspect that it is unlikely that many air arms will work up a full dedicated F-35 display, as they are buying a lot less of them than the F-16s they are replacing. Any fast jet jet display will be more of a rarity in future years.

Andyph wrote: ↑

Fri 02 Feb 2024, 2:58 am

I'm too old to care- nor on any social media to see it !

Man posts on social media to say that he’s not on social media

There’s a nice Apache that’s been in and out of Duxford last year. As you say, quite a rarity nowadays.

Both Pembrokes have been out of permit for at least 3 or 4 years now. And stretching g the definition slightly to ‘extended twins’, after all the work and expense of getting it flying again, the last flying UK Heron seems to have been abandoned at Jersey. On the upside, at least the BAES Anson survi...

Miss Helen is built up from an anonymous fuselage out of Israel which had all traces of its identity removed by the Israelis. It needed an identity to be registered with the CAA, so the owner picked 472216 from a list of aircraft which went to Israel which was provided to the former owner by a late ...

Actually there are none