Tornado farewell flypast February 2019

[Gary]

According to flight global the Tornado farewell flypast will take place February 28th and feature a 9 ship.

https://www.flightglobal.com/news/artic ... nd-455333/

[tbower35]

Does anyone know what the flypast will include? For example...just a high level fly by or might each ship do a touch and go or low approach? I'm assuming the RAF will put out a schedule for this?

[James Cutting]

Thank you for the info Gary.

Let's hope Marham can manage to secure parking again like they did the other week, wouldn't want to miss this at all.

[reaper493]

Does anyone know what the flypast will include? For example...just a high level fly by or might each ship do a touch and go or low approach? I'm assuming the RAF will put out a schedule for this?

It'll probably be a mass take off, flypast over selected places associated with the jet, (Honington, Cottesmore, Coningsby?, maybe Holbeach?) then a flypast over Marham and break to land.
Would not expect any low approaches/ touch and goes due to the volume of a/c returning at the same time.

I know there is talk of a visit to Lossie at some point, but would expect this to be completely separate.

Mike

[James Cutting]

Be an early wake up call to get there

[Blackcat1]

St Athan please! You were serviced here for 20 odd years!

[Malcolm]

II suspect there will need to be a NOTAM for a formation of 9 Tornados to fly around the country, so the routing should be well known before hand.

[Blackcat1]

Yes it will be Notamed at least a week in advance

[tbower35]

Thank you Mike for the information.

[herc15]

whey, got the day off booked off... hopeing they don't change the day now

[Blackcat1]

Weather's always great for farewell flypasts!! Remember Harrier at Cottesmore!!! Still feel cold now lol

[Mikepaparomeo]

Weather's always great for farewell flypasts!! Remember Harrier at Cottesmore!!! Still feel cold now lol

I second that!

[Blackcat1]

That wind seemed to cut you in half!! Lol

[Thunderbolt II]

Weather's always great for farewell flypasts!! Remember Harrier at Cottesmore!!! Still feel cold now lol

I second that!

I third that, and I had my arm in a cast, and they didn't taxy the special jets past us. Happy days!

[Fighterfoto]

The 9-ship won’t be doing the fly pasts around the country.

[Supra]

The 9-ship won’t be doing the fly pasts around the country.

Insider info' or alternative guessing? Perhaps, if you're doing air-to-airs you might have some more prior knowledge to share soon?

[powerslave]

The 9-ship won’t be doing the fly pasts around the country.

What,just like the Jaguars didn't?

[tornado17]

I don't do FB or Twitter so ask a mate to look yesterday and he said they was nothing about it on Marham's FB page. So where did Flight Global get the info? I've looked on MOD Press releases and there's nothing there. It just seems unusual that only one source 'knows' the date!!

[KarlADrage]

Craig Hoyle was at Marham with a number of members of the media on the morning of (what has since become) the first Tornado Farewell enthusiast event.

[tornado17]

Many thanks for clearing that up