Royal International Air Tattoo 2022 - General Discussion Thread

[Gary]

Great update and support by the Czechs, the Czech search and rescue role demo was very good at KB back in 2014. The W-3 is a nice catch too

[jasonT1981]

Republic of Singapore Air Force what?

Whoops, got distracted by a phonecall and thought I'd typed not attending

[PeteHemsley]

The Scillonia Airways DH.89 Dragon Rapide has also been confirmed

Only doing a flight for VIPs on the Sunday evening.

[red leader]

Looks like sadly no chance of the Romanian migs this year. A report says they've all been grounded. This could be permanently retired.

[Red-Eye-Knight]

Looks like sadly no chance of the Romanian migs this year. A report says they've all been grounded. This could be permanently retired.

That is a shame as its an awesome aircraft, Found the story regarding it if anyone interested.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ro ... 022-04-15/

[Flightech]

Shame about Romania, but the flashing yellow could be a flying display of some sort..... Maybe an f16?

Still no sign of Poland or Italy.....

[Flightech]

The Hungarian Gripen and French Rafale is already confirmed for the Cosford airshow. I wonder if they've fine the same for RIAT

[Red-Eye-Knight]

Shame about Romania, but the flashing yellow could be a flying display of some sort..... Maybe an f16?

Still no sign of Poland or Italy.....

F-16 from Romania would be awesome I've never saw one before but more likely to be a C-130 or C-27J Spartan.

There are still plenty of countries to confirm that normally attend and I am sure there will still be some great surprises to come.

[Red-Eye-Knight]

The Hungarian Gripen and French Rafale is already confirmed for the Cosford airshow. I wonder if they've fine the same for RIAT

There has been talks with Hungry for a few weeks now according to the aircraft updates on RIAT website if it is the Gripen let's hope it arrives as it usually cancels.

Rafale from France would be good along with the Mirage 2000 after both of them missed last RIAT in 2019.

[knutt]

Looking forward to seeing the Hind\Hip demo,the Austrian QRA demo and the W-3 Sokol. Surely it is more than 20 years since the Polish W-3 Sokol appeared in 1999 ???. Roll on July!!!!

Kevin

[Scudpilot]

Would love to see the NASA Sofia SP over, would be the last time as they have recently lost funding, and I imagine it’s not long for this world

[Philwinward]

Wonder if anybody at DBH has considered a trophy remembering “The Grey Wolf” ?

[Red-Eye-Knight]

So no Easter update today was hoping for something but maybe Thursday will bring something nice

[Gary]

A10 Demo have issued an updated schedule and RIAT is still ominously not on it. Hopefully still coming
https://facebook.com/story.php?story_fb ... 6898950881

Still listed or potentially listed here https://www.acc.af.mil/Home/Aerial-Even ... -schedule/ and https://www.airforceheritageflight.org/ ... -schedule/

[Red-Eye-Knight]

Oh dear Hopefully it and the F-35 do confirm as a star attraction still seems to be missing at the moment plus with being USAF 75th anniversary you would think they would have a quite a few displays and static like in 2017 when they sent loads to RIAT.

[Discodaz]

it seems to me they are concentrating on USAF static displays. i too hoped for a better USAF participation given the anniversary. i would say its still early days, but there are no more US teams left. if the a10 and f35 doesn't come then everything else is booked for that weekend i think.

daz

[Skywatcher]

I’d like to see the Qatar C-17 A7 MAB ,Indian C17 ,Canadian ,Australian C-17 and NATO C-17
Maybe a mini C-17 meet
Also Japanese C-2 would be cool to see again to

[James Cutting]

A10 Demo have issued an updated schedule and RIAT is still ominously not on it. Hopefully still coming
https://facebook.com/story.php?story_fb ... 6898950881

Still listed or potentially listed here https://www.acc.af.mil/Home/Aerial-Even ... -schedule/ and https://www.airforceheritageflight.org/ ... -schedule/

Would the A-10 Demo Team self confirm or would it be a joint statement from the USAF Heritage flight? I wasn't sure if the A-10 demo team is separate from the Heritage flight or not...

[jasonT1981]

Don't worry too much, it's still listed on the Heritage Flight website. I believe the A10 schedule has only listed the demo and not HF Displays.


https://www.airforceheritageflight.org/ ... -schedule/

[Red-Eye-Knight]

So if it is the Heritage Flight of A-10 and F-35 does that mean they will not do a solo display each before the Heritage Flypast?

That's assuming they are coming to RIAT.