Thank you Tiger 1, Phoon and Nighthawke for your responses to my enquiry many thanks for your help, hope you all are having a great weekend best wishes

Nigel

Hello

Does anyone know the two EF-18's that flew over the base on the 9/4/25 as they flew over Newark please, thank you for your help and best wishes

Nigel

Having worked on Lightning and Phantom QRA/Battleflight they were fully armed with all the safety pins out but they had a micro switch that stopped the armament firing we have to be airborne fairly quickly. My memories are faded but that is what I remember, Hawks normally just had guns or practice b...

Saw a Wildcat helicopter low north of Newark heading towards Waddington below last Saturday 26/11 at 9am local nothing showed on tracking sites I have, hope everyone has a great weekend
Best wishes
Nigel

It has to be the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Britain flypast in 1990, traveling between airfields to catch up with all the aircraft including spares, and then watching them come over Abingdon 1990 Battle of Britain airshow will live long in my memories.

Was displaying the callsign Airbus 16 on Flightradar, hope that helps, take care and best wishes

Nigel

It was our second display date and during the practice display on the Friday like ST24 said the AAR probe cover panel broke off so we had to use the spare aircraft, it wasn't a good start as on our first display weekend we burst a tyre on landing at North Weald, luckily the rest of the display seaso...

Hi, Some aircraft movements noted on Saturday extra to the checklist ZZ178 C-17 arriving at Brize at 0812 flew over EC-IXL Metro landed Avianova 168226/EH 14 MV-22B VMM-264 168225/EH 13 MV-22B VMM-264 ZH542 Sea KIng HAR-3A G-BMRJ 752 DHL XV106/W VC-10 ZH877 C-130 ZD953 Tristar ZZ175 C-17 ZZ330 A332 ...

Hi Scorch, Its a long time ago but one of the jets set aside for the display jet was overstressed during a practice display, can't remember if after checks it was OK and could resume being the display jet, before the display season the jet had a maintenance check to make it was able to stand up to t...

A couple of gents and I should know as I was the Armourer on the team with Nev Gardener, Brett Jordan and a bigger team of Groundcrew to help out at the bigger shows, a lot of driving and long hours but the best year in my RAF career. We started with a burst tyre at North Weald when landing and then...

Thanks alot for the serial Dave you are a gent

Nigel

Hi All,

Could someone tie up a C-17 on Sunday the 26 June that was eastbound at 1100 over Horncastle heading towards OTBED, many thanks in advance.

Best Wishes, Keep Smiling

Nigel

Hi,
Just popped in around 1430 for a couple of minutes,

Main Apron
089 YJ Xingu EAT 00.319
102 YS Xingu EAT 00.319
ZJ802/BB Typhoon
ZJ801/BJ Typhoon
ZJ811/DZ Typhoon

3 SQN HAS site
ZJ920/QO-A Typhoon

VASS area
G-MAJG Jetstream Eastern Airways
ZD574/DB Chinook
ZA679/AG Chinook

Many thanks

Nigel

Hi
Lovely shots brought some very Happy memories as I was served on 74(F) Squadron and one of the groundcrew on the display team, wonderful aircraft and camp to serve on.

Best Wishes

Hi All, You will find that alot of the leaks to the press especially the non tabloid ones will be sanctioned by the one of the three service chiefs to further their own service position with the SDR, it has happened every time we have had a defence review. The Army are very good at getting publicity...