RAF Swinderby in the early 70s at my uncles passing out parade. From memory the commentary was about its new camouflage paint job , It was being thrown around showing off the top surfaces and it's low level Performance. After this the 2nd would be around 1980 at Leicester airshow and a very fast kni...

Noticed Alonso car off the pace also. Gives the conspiracy groups of the Aston and red bull share of development wind tunnel time and over budget so use Aston Martin, 2 teams worth of budget and development. Let Alonso be shotgun for the redbulls.

A1(M) around Peterborough looks a possibility as a runway. Too many potholes :lol: Is that part still concrete. Used to be many areas 20 or 30 years ago With concrete dual carriage ways and motoways. Since the end of the cold War most have been tarmacadam over them. As been said thou, still lots of...

I would suggest that the F.35 appeared 'Wobbly' compared to the Harrier, simply because the F.35 is fly-by-wire, therefore computer making constant inputs and corrections to turbulence, whereas the Harrier is manually controlled, and will only react to pilot inputs. Therefore, if said pilot chooses...

Solo Harrier display on now in high winds sitting crowd center. Solid as a rock. Still the best at what it was designed to do.

Red-Eye-Knight wrote: ↑

Sat Jul 15, 2023 10:24 am

The F-35 didn't hover long compared to the Harrier still nice to see them fly side by side

F35 was totally outclassed by the Harrier, f35 was wobbling and hardly stood still, harrier was rock steady and the climb out of the Harrier as always been a super feature of the swivel nozzles.

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Sat Jul 15, 2023 8:55 am

Gripen E just scrubbed due to wind

Doubt it due too wind, the spainish display team seem OK at the minute.

Could be bad news for Saturday, with a yellow weather warning in place
The show and grounds under health and safety and insurance purposes
The show Saturday or even Friday could have to close.
Keep an eye out for a news feed from RIAT Friday.

It's not that bad, honestly. Friday is heavy rain Saturday light showers. Just a coat and waterproofs. Too hot last year might be too wet this year, when are we ever happy. You have an optimistic forecast. We've just had a warning out from base met covering Friday & Saturday. It's not so much the r...

The Met office are saying thunder storm's and very heavy downpours in south west and strong winds from 11am at Fairford with showers all day BBC Are saying 2 periods of thunderstorm with rain showers all day on Saturday with strong winds from 11am for the rest of the day. Rain aside, it's the high ...

Saturday doesn't look that awful with regards to rain, a lot less than Friday anyway. Maybe move some of tomorrow's validations to today as a precaution? Rain wise Saturday granted is not as bad as Friday, It's the strong winds mixed with the rain. Majority of display are team Displays that will be...

Validation displays on Friday could be hampered by the weather Friday.
What is the course of action without Validation regarding the weekend.
Saturday's weather looks terrible with rain but also strong winds in the 40-55mph region.
That will most certainly have a big effect on flying.

Interesting proposal from FRIAT to stop the carnage of 100% bag checks You will have hopefully seen the email that came out last week regarding the 100% baggage checks we will be carrying out this year at the Customer Entry gates. To help speed this up the lanes will be marked no luggage - hand lug...

Where would be best to get a vantage point and view over the airfield to get what has arrived and on the ground as can't make to show but was told the campsite on the hill is a good view. Any help would be much appreciated Apache123 The campsite on the hill. Totterdown, will not get you any pics of...

7dayshop used to be good for battery replacement. Hahnel? Was a good 3rd party brand. Still have some from around 2004 and work still too this day in my old D30 & D60. plus 20D. Have never purchased a Canon spare always 3rd party and touch wood found them to be fine. Get around 4 or more for the pri...

Normal for the Demo team to take a Bird off the ramp at Lakenheath.
So if the Rumour is correct you will see any sign week prior at the Heath, practice and familiarity flights etc.

Asda or like mentioned above Tesco. Seen some good deals at Asda .
Ebay is another option same with Amazon. Be careful of fakes from them.

Many thanks for your replies, i really do appreciate it. Will we have to be there early, do they run out of space by a certain time? My little boy has been asking to see some planes recently, so it will be nice to see him get excited when he sees the displays. Thanks again Get where early.as above ...

Has anyone ever been to albrighton sports complex for the airshow? Is it decent enough to watch the display from there or is there anywhere else thats any good? Was going to take my little boy but obviously missed out on tickets now. Thanks Pretty certain all of those old areas are now closed off, ...

Weather not looking good for Sunday,
Nice and sunny all week then show day possible thunderstorms.