RIAT 2014 - News and updates here please

[Gary]

FRIAT passes have started to arrive not long now

[airtyphoon]

Todays Update

As last year, the Estonian Air Force will be providing two aircraft at RIAT 2014 - an Aero L-39C Albatros jet trainer for the flying display, and a veteran Antonov An-2 'Colt' utility biplane for the static park.
Adding further to the Army Air Corps' representation at this summer's Air Tattoo will be a Britten-Norman Defender from 651 Squadron. Stationed at Aldergrove in Belfast, the aircraft is a rarely-seen attendee at a British air display. It will be present in the static park.

The involvement of British military helicopters in RIAT 2014 is already strong, and two more have been added to the static display - a Bell Griffin HT1 from No 60(R) Squadron at RAF Shawbury, and a search and rescue Westland Sea King HAR3 of No 203(R) Squadron at RAF Valley.

The Royal Air Force Centre of Aviation Medicine (RAFCAM) has confirmed that it will send a Hawk T1 for static display as part of RIAT 2014's celebration of the jet trainer's 40th anniversary. RAFCAM has two Hawks, based at MoD Boscombe Down in Wiltshire. They are used as part of its research into the effects of fast jet flying on the human body.
Two further examples of the historic Jet Provost trainer will be joining the RIAT 2014 static park. Regular show attendee Neil McCarthy is set to bring his Newcastle-based Jet Provost T3A, serial XM479, while from North Weald will come a T3 model, formerly serialled XN637.

Against these additions, a small number of cancellations have been notified. The NATO E-3A Sentry, Royal Navy Sea King HU5 and the civilian Guimbal Cabri light helicopter are regrettably no longer able to participate in RIAT 2014.

airtyphoon

[Gary]

Estonian Air Force
Antonov An-2 (Static)
L-39C Albatros (Flying)

Army Air Corps
Defender - 651 Squadron (Static)

Royal Air Force
Bell Griffin HT.1 - 60(R) Squadron (Static)
Hawk T.1 - RAFCAM (Static)
Sea King HAR3 - 203(R) Squadron (Static)

Civilian
Jet Provost T.3 - G-BKOU/2 Ltd (Static)
Jet Provost T.3A - Newcastle Jet Provost Group (Static)

http://www.airtattoo.com/airshow/visiti ... -confirmed

Shame about the loss of the E-3A & Sea King HU5, the An-2 must have already set off to make it on time

[seven]

Quite a loss with the E-3, but good to see the Estonian's returning.

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[Paulo]

Quite a loss with the E-3, but good to see the Estonian's returning.

7

Agreed, always enjoyable to see the E-3.

What's the flight time going to be for the Estonian AN-2? Or will they bring it over in something else?

[POL]

What's the flight time going to be for the Estonian AN-2? Or will they bring it over in something else?

Last time it came over it was around 12 hours of flying time, via various airfields to stop for fuel, etc.

I seem to remember it turned up late on the Friday last year?

[Flyingmonster]

What's the flight time going to be for the Estonian AN-2? Or will they bring it over in something else?

Last time it came over it was around 12 hours of flying time, via various airfields to stop for fuel, etc.

I seem to remember it turned up late on the Friday last year?

Was indeed late on the Friday

[peasus911]

Getting reports in this morning of the entire F35 Fleet being grounded due to oil leak. How long do these things normally take to fix. What does this mean for the hop over the pond in a couple of weeks...

[GVLCN]

Whole fleets being grounded is never a good thing, if its an easy fix expect to see it. If its more complex problem, then it was a nice thought of seeing them but they won't risk pilots lives when an under-lying problem needs to be fixed,, just so they can attend the Uk airshows.

[Dan213]

Getting reports in this morning of the entire F35 Fleet being grounded due to oil leak. How long do these things normally take to fix. What does this mean for the hop over the pond in a couple of weeks...

saw this said in other places with aircraft having apparently been grounded on the 10 th June.
RAF pilot received his PDA on the 11th of June so there are questions as to how true this info actually is. Who knows though...

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[KevinJ]

Getting reports in this morning of the entire F35 Fleet being grounded due to oil leak. How long do these things normally take to fix. What does this mean for the hop over the pond in a couple of weeks...

saw this said in other places with aircraft having apparently been grounded on the 10 th June.
RAF pilot received his PDA on the 11th of June so there are questions as to how true this info actually is. Who knows though...

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The incident that led to the grounding happened on June 10, the grounding came after the PDA flight.

[sneezy24]

F35 still expected to be here:-

http://online.wsj.com/articles/f-35-fig ... 1402854181

[bizfreeq]

F35 still expected to be here:-

http://online.wsj.com/articles/f-35-fig ... 1402854181

Cant read this article unless you pay for it

[razor23uk]

It would appear to have been an easy fix then. Check out thew Fairford sub-forum as it seems they are now cleared to resume flying

[Dan213]

It would appear to have been an easy fix then. Check out thew Fairford sub-forum as it seems they are now cleared to resume flying

Not a quick fix. The grounding order to ground the fleet was put in place to enable the fleet to be inspected. Inspections are now complete, hence the return to flight.

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[peasus911]

Just read the following.....

"Some Lockheed Martin F-35s remain grounded a week after an oil leak forced the pilot of the single-engined fighter to make an emergency landing on 10 June.

The onboard fault detection system alerted the pilot of the US Marine Corps F-35B of a fuel loss, prompting the pilot to return to a base in Yuma, Arizona, safely.

The pilot shut down the engine on the ground, according to a statement by the F-35 joint programme office.

A root cause analysis is continuing, but the source of the oil leak in the Pratt & Whitney F135 engine “appears” to be a supply line to bearings and a special fitting within a device called the oil flow managing valve, the programme’s statement says.

The bearings and the fitting “separated from the body” of the valve, the programme says.

Three days later, the programme ordered all other F-35s grounded until inspectors could examine the same valve. The 90min inspection revealed three “suspect findings” on other F-35Bs at Yuma, but cleared the rest of the fleet to return to flight status.

“We are currently in the data collection and analysis phase to determine root cause,” says P&W in a statement.

The company notes that a metric for F135 engine availability has been steadily at or above 98%.

The Yuma incident follows two other malfunctions within the last 18 months involving the F135 engine, including a cracked low-pressture turbine blade discovered early last year and a cracked fan blade on a test engine last December."

[MRTT]

What is everyone on here most looking forward to seeing in the static and flying displays

FLYING
Polish Air Force Su-22 Fitter (Have never seen one and they look mighty fine)
USMC & RAF F35 Lightning (It should be great to see them finally make their debut)
Polish Air Force Team Orlik (Have never seen them and it should be good to find out what their like)
Italian Air Force Tornado (Missed it in 2011 due to weather on Saturday)
Swiss Air Force F-18 (Haven't seen it yet due to it cancelling at Yeovilton last year)

STATIC
Greek Air Force Corsairs (Should be great, have never seen them before and this will be my first and last chance)
United State Navy Poseidon (Have never seen it before)
Lithuanian Air Force C-27 (Again have never seen this particular one)
Estonian Air Force Antonov (Looked great last year)
The line of F-16s (They should look brilliant all parked together)

[sneezy24]

F35 still expected to be here:-

http://online.wsj.com/articles/f-35-fig ... 1402854181

Cant read this article unless you pay for it

Worked OK for me, for free...

[MRTT]

RIAT seems to have vanished off of the Red Bull website.

[Gary]

Today's update 19th June

Returning to RIAT for what promises to be another impressive demonstration of agility from a large aircraft is the Airbus A400M Atlas. The twin-turboprop airlifter will appear in the flying display crewed by test pilots from manufacturer Airbus Defence and Space. Last year, Anglo-German crew Tony Flynn and Karl-Heinz Mai took home the Air Tattoo's Cannestra Trophy for best display by an overseas participant. Tony Flynn is scheduled to join chief test pilot Ed Strongman in making up the display crew this time around.

Making the short hop over from their base at Cotswold Airport will be two classic jets from the Midair Squadron, Canberra PR9 serial XH134 and Hunter T7 serial XL577. Both will be on static display over the Air Tattoo weekend. The Canberra, of course, made its post-restoration debut at RIAT last year.

Peter Vacher's Battle of Britain veteran Hurricane I, R4118, will grace the Air Tattoo static display this year. The aircraft, based at Peter's farm strip near Didcot, is due to be flown in by test pilot Keith Dennison.

Returning to the Air Tattoo static park this year is the Vampire Preservation Group's lovingly-restored Vampire T11, WZ507. This is the sole T11 believed to be flying today, all the other airworthy two-seat Vampires being licence-built (mainly ex-Swiss) examples. It is based at North Weald, and will further augment the small gathering of classic jets attending RIAT 2014 for static display.

http://www.airtattoo.com/airshow/visiti ... st-updates

Airbus
A-400M (Flying)

Civilian
Canberra PR9 - Midair Squadron (Static)
Hunter T7 Midair Squadronr (Static)
Hurricane Mr Peter Vacher (Static)
PBY-5A Catalina Plane Sailing (Static)
Vampire T11 (Static)

RAF
king Air 200 45(R) Squadron (Static)
Typhoon 29(R) Squadron Fighter (Static)
Typhoon 6 Squadron Fighter(Static)
Vigilant T.1 Air Cadets 2 FTS/621 VGS(Static)
Viking T.1 Air Cadets 2 FTS/621 VGS (Static)

Great to see the A-400M again Canberra PR9 static only Still no new on the Romanians and the Japanese? oh well two maybe three Thursday updates to go