Nice set Keith and good effort at getting so many, you got our balloons in a few of them.

It was certainly a sit and wait event, the last weekend providing perfect conditions for all four ascents.

Great set Rich, you caught me in the penultimate two, flying the white balloon next to the Minion.

Love the city backdrop shots.

Seventh slot should never have been flown, glad I chose to stay on the ground.

Midair are not in trouble, the aircraft will fly when they are ready and cancelling appearances is the correct thing to do.

There is a bigger picture that is relevant but I'm not at liberty to go in to it.

From my part of Kemble I see the C2 hangar everyday...

Activity continues on the aircraft but as they haven't flown (yet) then its very sensible to cancel their appearances, rather than promise something that cant be delivered, cost cutting no, sensible yes

Russ wrote:

vulcan57 wrote:

boff180 wrote:The RAF fleet is still grounded as of today. Andy

I've seen ZM400 showing up on Flightradar 24 on a good few occasions since the crash in France.

I can assure you they haven't flown since the grounding order.

Only the French have continued to fly in service aircraft since the accident

Airshowhammer wrote:Would like to see the Hungarian Gripen swap to the flying display & will the hot air balloons be back?

No hot air balloons this year for various reasons

Canberra has been ground running recently, no doubt as Scotty says to iron out the snags

The 2nd image is a mock up of the new basic trainer being developed based on the Caproni C22J (if you were at Farnborough in 1982 you would have seen the original!)

No, but it links to an interview with the organisers. The US DoD already announced that they won't be supporting Paris, so the fact they are, according to the interview, getting US aircraft in the flying display, could mean that the US demo teams (like the ACC F-16, for example), are going to suppo...

Not sure why people are linking Paris to RIAT? One is a trade show (supported by the USDoD in the case of the USA) and one isn't, aircraft committed to Paris are not comparable to RIAT.

The FB paged linked to is not even the official Paris FB page...

Great angles and great processing, nice to creativity done well

F-35 = no chance of it being in the UK this year, needs to be combined with Farnborough for LM to even think about sponsoring a deployment. Given the state of the program deploying man power and a number of jets for 10-14 days its not even realistic to think about it.

Nice shots of both.

I bet Kemble were glad not to have the DA's take place after the practice there

Heres an iPhone snap of a print, Mig 10 & 53 departing Farnborough '88, the first and only(?) time a SHAR has flown in formation, must dig out the arrival snap of them with Tornados

Fumbles wrote:There was also a bit of USAF participation at Aero India as well. We had the 2015 F-16 demo,2 F-15s,KC-135 and a USN P-8 on static.

Supported by the DoD not the AF

N1003U hasn't been a DC9 for a very long time!

Returning from a day trip to KEF for crosswind testing

Thought I had lost this shot but luckily someone has stolen it and put it on their website

Farnborough 88(?)

And as for me not giving photos away to the press, correct me if im wrong but a press outlet would have to be pretty stupid to take a photo that has a visible watermark and a digital copyright encrypted into it. Very easy to use your (and anyone's) images cropped in the right way to cut out the wat...

And with his Mustang 1987(ish?) regular visitors to Farnborough too. http://www.mustangsmustangs.com/p-51/p51who/images/338.jpg http://www.mustangsmustangs.com/p-51/p51survivors/pages/picfiles/44-72773/44-72773_01628_pd1.jpg Charles would I'm sure have had a large fleet of Warbirds, his plans were a...

Nice to see G-FORT I was there for its spirited arrival!

The Rolls Royce Spitfire performing a private display for Fly2Help

The B-25 making the low pass looks like "Miami Clipper" which ended up in Malaga after the filming of the movie Cuba and is now on display at the air force museum in Madrid! Remember Blackbushe was the first place I saw a flying P-47 and P-51 back in the early eighties, late seventies! Thi...

Now that brings back wonderful memories of Blackbushe and the Doug Arnold era, I was a regular visitor and it was always amazing to see what gems were on the airfield.

The B-25's were used in Hanover Street amongst other movies

Great shots, you even caught me in action on the last one