Brief visit 06-07-12

[Malfatron Malkovic]

Made a coffee stop here (10:55 - 11:30) as part of a mini-road-trip to Fairford.
Locals read-off were : Lynx AH.7 XZ208, XZ214 and XZ196/T
Squirrel HT.2 ZJ245
Bell 212HP AH.1 ZJ969/K and AH.3 ZK067
In addition,on the dispersal were 3 Lynx AH.7, 2 Squirrel HT.2, 7 Apache AH.1 and 1 Gazelle AH.1. Due to poor light and rain - which subsequently accompanied us for the remainder of the day (Brize - Carterton - Fairford - Kempsford) - we were unable to ID any of these.
This:


Passed through the overhead at 11:00, presumably out of Farnborough, and,also presumably, what we could hear in the overhead at Boscombe 30 minutes before.
Is anybody able to help with the ID, please?

[Malfatron Malkovic]

Its and f-18 but as to which one i am not entirley sure. I know there was a swiss one at Waddington the other week nut i don't know if this went to RIAT or not and i am sure Farnborough have an f-18 down to display but i could be wrong

Thank you for the reply, and trying to help.
Perhaps i should have made my question clearer, it was serial ID not type ID i was after. On the day in question, two were at Farnborough - i was curious whether this is the machine that later arrived at Fairford, or the other machine from Farnborough.

[paddyboy]

Hi Mal

Nice pic anyway

If it was the frame at Waddo, the display was awesome, 'specially on Satuday, when the 'square loop' was performed to purrfection

Best regards

Paddyboy