Farnborough - some memories

[capercaillie]

The biennial show at Farnborough was a must do every two years with a three hour packed flying programme, aircraft would take off to display as the previous item was on approach to land, such was the intensity of the display. An absolutely packed and almost impossible to photograph static park - especially on the three public days, meant that getting in during the week was essential, something you learned! My first one was 1984, but my film from that year was lost, my Olympus Trip35 tore it out of the cassette, so no Mi26, Jaguar ACT, Mirage 3NG or F-20 Tigershark pics in my collection to show you.

Shots up to 1990 are from various print films - Fuji and Kodak scan well, Agfa is hateful. After that from Kodachrome slide film.
EAP ZF534 British Aerospace by Paul Downes, on Flickr

Mirage 4000 01/F-ZWRM Dassault-Breguet Aviation by Paul Downes, on Flickr

Atlantique 2 01/F-ZJTQ Dassault-Breguet by Paul Downes, on Flickr

SR-71A 64-17980 9SRW Detachment 4 US Air Force RAF Mildenhall by Paul Downes, on Flickr

Sea King 4X ZB507 RAE Farnborough by Paul Downes, on Flickr

Mirage 2000C 27/2-LM EC03.002 French Air Force Dijon by Paul Downes, on Flickr

MiG29UB 53 blue Mikoyan-Gurevich by Paul Downes, on Flickr

Hawk 200 ZH200 British Aerospace by Paul Downes, on Flickr

EH101 ZF641/PP1 Westland-Agusta by Paul Downes, on Flickr

Tornado F3 ZE251/AX 229 OCU/65 Squadron RAF Coningsby by Paul Downes, on Flickr

Tp88 Metro Erieye 88003/883 Swedish Air Force by Paul Downes, on Flickr

F-100F Super Sabre N416FS Tracor Flight Services by Paul Downes, on Flickr

An225 CCCP-82060 by Paul Downes, on Flickr

Tornado GR1 ZA564/JK 27 Squadron RAF Marham by Paul Downes, on Flickr

Yak38 38 yellow Russian Navy/Yakovlev by Paul Downes, on Flickr

Tu22M3 unmarked c/n 1212347 Tupolev by Paul Downes, on Flickr

Su25T 10 blue Sukhoi by Paul Downes, on Flickr

MiG31 374 Mikoyan-Gurevich by Paul Downes, on Flickr

IAR-330 Puma 105 Romanian Coast Guard by Paul Downes, on Flickr

An72P 07 red Antonov by Paul Downes, on Flickr

Tu22M3 unmarked c/n 1212347 Tupolev by Paul Downes, on Flickr

Rafale B B-01 Dassault by Paul Downes, on Flickr

Su35 703 blue Sukhoi by Paul Downes, on Flickr

Lightning P1B XA847 by Paul Downes, on Flickr

M-55 Geophysika RF-55204 Myasishchev by Paul Downes, on Flickr

Hawk T1/100/200 RAF/British Aerospace by Paul Downes, on Flickr

C-17A Globemaster III 92-3294 437AW US Air Force Charleston AFB by Paul Downes, on Flickr

M-93V Iryda SP-PWE PZL by Paul Downes, on Flickr

M-55 Geophysika RF-55204 Myasishchev by Paul Downes, on Flickr

Eurofighter Typhoon DA-2 ZH588 BAE Systems by Paul Downes, on Flickr

JAS39A Gripen 39111 F7 Swedish Air Force by Paul Downes, on Flickr

F/A-18C Hornet 163477/AA400 VFA-81 US Navy USS Enterprise by Paul Downes, on Flickr

MiG AT 81 white Mikoyan-Gurevich by Paul Downes, on Flickr

Su37 711 white Sukhoi by Paul Downes, on Flickr

Mi8AMTS RA-25755 Ulan-Ude Mil by Paul Downes, on Flickr

MiG21MF LanceR-A 714 IAR/Romanian Air Force by Paul Downes, on Flickr

Wessex HCC4 XV732 32(TR) Squadron RAF Northolt by Paul Downes, on Flickr

C-2A Greyhound 162142 VX-20 US Navy NAS Patuxent River by Paul Downes, on Flickr

EF2000 98+30 WTD61/Eurofighter German Air Force by Paul Downes, on Flickr

MiG29SMT 917 blue by Paul Downes, on Flickr

IAR-330 28 Romanian Air Force by Paul Downes, on Flickr

One-Eleven Srs479 ZE433 Euroradar Turnhouse by Paul Downes, on Flickr

125 CC3 ZE396 32(TR) Squadron RAF Northolt by Paul Downes, on Flickr

[Wes_Howes]

Phwoar, fantastic stuff Paul. I always like that two-tone grey scheme applied to the Typhoon prototype, shame it never stuck with the in-service aircraft. I seem to remember Dassault would change the flight number on the Rafale daily.

[CWS]

What on earth have I just looked through lol

Absolute madness the quality and variety ! Someone invent time travel please ...

[Reaper02]

Some great shots of amazing frames, indeed the variety! Well done!

[Blackbird]

Them was the days! Great selection of photos. Such a shame the show went completely down the pan.

[JMC]

Unreal. Thanks so much for sharing!

One thing that surprisingly stood out to me is how good the Gripen looks with coloured decals?

[FarnboroJohn]

Great stuff. As a Farnborough resident I was there for all of those but I had certainly forgotten some. Thanks for the memories!

[capercaillie]

Many thanks, as you've all been so nice, a handful more!
ATP G-MATP British Aerospace by Paul Downes, on Flickr

Rafale A A01/F-FJSA Dassault-Breguet Aviation by Paul Downes, on Flickr

Mirage F1CR 655/33-NN ER02.033 French Air Force Strasbourg by Paul Downes, on Flickr

Rare RAE Gazelle
Gazelle HT2 ZB646 RAE Farnborough by Paul Downes, on Flickr

Had to do it!
F1300 Jet Squalus I-SQAL Promavia by Paul Downes, on Flickr

AMX MMX595 Aeritalia Aermacchi EMBRAER by Paul Downes, on Flickr

An225 CCCP-82060 by Paul Downes, on Flickr

Mi17M CCCP-95448 Kazan Helicopters by Paul Downes, on Flickr

Il-78M CCCP-76701 Aeroflot/Russian Air Force by Paul Downes, on Flickr

AS355 Fennec 5539/AYH French Army by Paul Downes, on Flickr

Hawk 200 ZJ201 BAe Warton by Paul Downes, on Flickr

MiG29SE 999 white by Paul Downes, on Flickr

Rafale with changing flight number as Wes pointed out.
Rafale M M01 Dassault by Paul Downes, on Flickr

Ka-50 Black Shark 024 Kamov by Paul Downes, on Flickr

An74TK UR-74038 ADB by Paul Downes, on Flickr

SH-60B Seahawk 164465/500 HSL-48 US Navy by Paul Downes, on Flickr

[microlight]

Great memories in this post , just shows what a weak show it is in these times

[Wrexham Mackem]

Memories indeed, great to see and look back on. Farnborough was always a complicated thing. Not everything flew every day, you had to pick your day.. get lucky even. We really did see some stunning things there over the years though, which was some reward indeed.

[RS2]

Really enjoyed this post, thank you. So much stuff that I was lucky to see but have no photos of. Have to admit had forgotten about some of the participants until looking through this thread, and as someone has already mentioned you either had to be there most days or drop lucky to catch certain items flying.

[Tom105]

Thanks for sharing these, unbelieve how much good stuff there was at these shows! Unfortunately my first Farnborough wasnt until 2008 by which point the quality had gone down!