Waddington 2007 Airshow with added spice

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Waddington 2007 Airshow with added spice

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First time I've scanned these from a memorable show, although the weather I believe was fairly pants on the show days and one may have even been cancelled from memory?

Waddington attracted many notable UK show firsts including several only appearances to dates - think Singapore A-4s, Israeli F-15Is, Korean Black Eagles and of course in 2007 the base was hosting the exercise Indra Dhanush, six Indian Air Force Su30MKIs with support Il78MKI exercising with co-located Tornado F3s from Leeming and the Coningsby based Typhoons. This all happening across the weekends of Waddington Airshow and Fairford RIAT boosting the show line ups considerably.

So we'll start Waddington's show memoirs with the early Thursday arrivals, two waves each consisting of an Il78MKI escorting three Su30MKIs with a single Il76MD transport appearing a little later in the morning, it was a busy approach with many folk being caught out by the early timings and cars abandoned at the lights! These are more in serial order rather than landing order.
ImageSu30MKI SB041 30 Squadron Indian Air Force Pune AFS by Paul Downes, on Flickr

ImageSu30MKI SB041 30 Squadron Indian Air Force Pune AFS by Paul Downes, on Flickr

ImageSu30MKI SB042 30 Squadron Indian Air Force Pune AFS by Paul Downes, on Flickr

ImageSu30MKI SB044 30 Squadron Indian Air Force Pune AFS by Paul Downes, on Flickr

ImageSu30MKI SB044 30 Squadron Indian Air Force Pune AFS by Paul Downes, on Flickr

ImageIl78MKI RK-3452 78 Squadron Indian Air Force Agra by Paul Downes, on Flickr

ImageIl78MKI RK-3452 78 Squadron Indian Air Force Agra by Paul Downes, on Flickr

ImageSu30MKI SB103 30 Squadron Indian Air Force Pune AFS by Paul Downes, on Flickr

ImageSu30MKI SB103 30 Squadron Indian Air Force Pune AFS by Paul Downes, on Flickr

Get it down!
ImageSu30MKI SB103 30 Squadron Indian Air Force Pune AFS by Paul Downes, on Flickr

ImageSu30MKI SB107 30 Squadron Indian Air Force Pune AFS by Paul Downes, on Flickr

ImageSu30MKI SB107 30 Squadron Indian Air Force Pune AFS by Paul Downes, on Flickr

ImageIl78MKI RK-3451 78 Squadron Indian Air Force Agra by Paul Downes, on Flickr

Support stuff arriving. Il76 didn't stop for the deployment
ImageIl76MD K2663 44 Squadron Indian Air Force Chandigarh AFS by Paul Downes, on Flickr

Appearing on the Friday, not sure if it made the show days at Waddington? Nimrod after being to the gym for a few months.
ImageNimrod MRA4 ZJ518 BAE Systems Woodford by Paul Downes, on Flickr
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I just got to the gates on the Sunday to find it had been cancelled..
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I went on Saturday and the weather was awful. I recall spending most of the morning taking shelter under cover of the Utterly Butterly tent thingy. I came away with precious few photos worth looking at, but (forgive me for "hijacking") this was about the best.
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AndyXH558 wrote:
Sun 22 Nov 2020, 11:19 am
I just got to the gates on the Sunday to find it had been cancelled..
Me too - that was the furthest I have ever driven for an airshow - 350 mile round trip.
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