Royal International Air Tattoo 2017 Discussion Thread

[seven]

One wonders if that 'modified Global 6000' could be a Cambridge based example?

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[Stroudy]

Cant see the Indian Bear, Jag and MiG-23 (F) line in that announcement

[raptor76]

Nice little update with a few rare aircraft mixed in for good measure and not including the sea-king which is a replacement for the p-3 orion that is 23 aircraft added to the static park.

[MRTT]

Has to be said, the static this year is at it's strongest for a number of years. Should make arrivals/departures busier.

[bizfreeq]

One wonders if that 'modified Global 6000' could be a Cambridge based example?

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Exactly what I was thinking!

[seven]

Cant see the Indian Bear, Jag and MiG-23 (F) line in that announcement

With the Bear's having just retired, and the MiG-23's long gone, i would say that would be a little tricky TBF.

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[jasonT1981]

I expected the Irish to send the CASA, though it will be nice to get to see the PC9 up close, seen them display many times, but never actually gotten up close to one.

[Alexe]

One wonders if that 'modified Global 6000' could be a Cambridge based example?

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Taken from the aircraft information posted on the RIAT website:

"This example, offered by Bombardier, has been undergoing modification by Marshalls of Cambridge."
http://www.airtattoo.com/airshow/aircra ... lobal-6000

A very surprising addition

[bizfreeq]

A very welcome one, hopefully it will be painted by then!

[KINROTATE]

I'm led to believe the Scorpion will be the second production acft, demonstrating its new bits n bobs to those that might be interested in operating the jet.

[jasonT1981]

BAE will be bringing their Typhoon mock up to RIAT according to a press release earlier from them.

[Gary]

I'm led to believe the Scorpion will be the second production acft, demonstrating its new bits n bobs to those that might be interested in operating the jet.

Lets hope so, unless they plan to bring it over, it was the original airframe which went to Paris by the look of it viewtopic.php?f=8&t=147618

[Gary]

LTG 61 have a stunning disbandment C-160, fingers crossed it's that one at RIAT https://cr-photos.com/2017/06/09/ltg-61 ... rday-2017/

Also hope they bring all their disbandment patches , which have started to appear online

[jasonT1981]

One of the USAF Thunderbirds has flipped and crashed at a show it seems at Dayton International Airport. One pilot is out, police escort to hospital. Looks like it was on the runway taxiing after landing and got hit by a massive gust of wind flipping the plane.

[raptor76]

The thunderbirds are returning to full flying operations.

[MRTT]

EDIT: Doesn't look like this one is attending RIAT, apologies guys.

[Mark]

Nice one, another one that I haven't seen before (although it is a pretty short list...)

[MRTT]

Roll on Thursday!

A superb little gem coming up on Thursday ......

[Voodoo1]

Roll on Thursday!

A superb little gem coming up on Thursday ......

Oh no...another darn "Tweet"!
Aren't we still waiting on Tom/DBH confirming the last "Gods" tweet?

For them to tweet about it must have them pretty excited too so hopefully it's a good update and in the flying. It's been a while since we've had a flying confirmation plus I think there's still room for a few more!

The next 2 weeks could be quite fruitful for updates!

Either way...roll on 2 weeks folks!

[luke28]

Its been 5 days since we had a flying addition.