Patrouille Suisse

[Tally-ho]

From raining to bucketing

[reaper493]

Covers still on nose of the aircraft, nothing on the cockpits. No sign of movement.

[stealth117]

Cant see it happening in this now, absolutely hammering down with rain. Shame as i dont think i can get back to see them again any other day. Waste of time as i have been here since around 11-30am

[MiG_Eater]

Thanks for the update reaper. Sitting here at Duxford hoping for good news!

[Mallett17]

The only positive at the moment is that the caravan is still at the end of the runway.

[reaper493]

They leave the caravan there most of the time......

[reaper493]

Atis saying vis 3000m cloud at 1200m.

Think that's it for today apart from the RJ retuning

[stealth117]

Blue sky on the horizon now, but is it going to be too late?

Edit: a few people around the jets in hi-viz at the minute

[NickC]

PA announcement here at Duxford just now stating that the Patrouille Suisse practice is canx due to wx out of limits at Waddington and later this afternoon here at Duxford.

[reaper493]

Covers reported to be going on the cockpits now.

[reaper493]

Talk of the Swiss doing a practice in the AM for validation tomorrow with the display in the afternoon.

[stealth117]

Covers reported to be going on the cockpits now.

I did post this earlier but it either didn't go on or was deleted by someone?

[reaper493]

Looks like it didn't go - no deleted posts on this thread.

[stealth117]

Poor signal most likely. Very disappointing way to end the day, especially as the sun came out and lovely blue skies as they were wrapping up for the day.

[Yunglee]

Is there any news on an am validation today?

[reaper493]

Rumours of a mid morning validation at Duxford floating around.

Didn't think they could validate in front of public, so not sure if that's accurate.

[Alpha Delta 210]

Rumours of a mid morning validation at Duxford floating around.

Didn't think they could validate in front of public, so not sure if that's accurate.

Yes, an IWM staff member told me that yesterday at Duxford. I don't think that is a problem, because they were scheduled at 1520 yesterday when the airfield was open to the public.

I hope that it's true, because I have arrived early at Duxford!

[reaper493]

Have heard 11am take off time - which might have just been confirmed by someone eating breakfast at the same restaurant as them

10am doesn't seem possible based on that.

[Alpha Delta 210]

Have heard 11am take off time - which might have just been confirmed by someone eating breakfast at the same restaurant as them

10am doesn't seem possible based on that.

Gates open at 10.00, so if that's true, we will get 2 displays from them today!

The weather here is gorgeous, with all the photographic challenges that presents!

[pb643]

Patrouille Swiss website says 12.00 for training. Presumably 11.00BST?