The French are coming here aren't they, joint flypast with the Reds over London tomorrow for Charles De Gaulle memorial. Yes I noticed a comment on the bzzspotters website on Monday that has since been removed saying "On Thursday 18th they [the reds] and the Patrouille de France are due to display ...

Anyone know why nothing is going up? Cloudbase looks good, no rain? What's the hold up? Are they preparing for the Nato flypast?

This is probably a silly request but I'm planning on putting together a video of the reds display this year and would love to get an audio recording of the cockpit commands to overlay and bring it to life! Not having a scanner myself I wondered if anyone could oblige? I don't mind paying for it. It ...

Some epic shots there, good to see the herc still up and about, reminds me of the old Lyneham days!

Great shots Bollo! Inspired me to get back up to BZZ & FFD again, especially as the Buff's are there at the moment!

Blackcat1 wrote:And what do we send? The good old Tornado :-)

Does anyone have any info as to what squadron this was?

Correct, and if 6 aircraft deploy, they don’t just have the 6 ‘ferry’ pilots to fly during the deployment. All of the other pilots go civair or by military charter/transport and are usually in position (jet lag rested etc) ready to start flying straight away. Regards Interesting, never come across ...

There are no F-22s at Lakenheath! The man serving coffee will have spoken to one of the pilots who has come over by air transport ready for the fighters arrival. A classic case of putting two and two together and not coming up with four! Regards So these days fighter pilots catch a lift with air tr...