Too right! Mrs Urkles has given me the green light and will be booking the flights soon, and will try to do some W&R hopefully. One surprise is that Greece has already confirmed attendancepikey01 wrote:Turkish trip already cleared through the bank manager! (wifeurkles wrote:Agreed, the Turkish show in June will make RIAT look like a graden fete)
nice to see thoughMore like 99%, but we have now had two JF-17s, one P-3, an L-100 and a Beech King Air all visit the UK at some point in the last five years. All of which are more interesting than a grey F-16!pikey01 wrote:95% of which would never visit the uk...im afraid im very much in the frame of mind that if you want to see exotic, you need to travel these days. The Hungarian airshow proved thatTonyO wrote:Why an F-16, why not a JF-17 or one of their Mirage 5s - Pakistan has a larger air force than we do now with many, many goodies with in it!Gary wrote:Pakistani F-16 would be greator the Pakistani P-3 again after the ill faithed 2008
Had an email off Marion confirming FRIAT prices won't risegood news no reason to rush and get my ticket before Christmas
Air forces from countries in the Middle East, Europe and the former Soviet bloc are the first to confirm their participation in next year's Royal International Air Tattoo –
We want you to send us the names of the three countries you believe have already agreed to take part in RIAT 2011. One comes from the Middle East, one from Western Europe and one from the former Soviet bloc
Polish again i wonder?
Gary wrote:Got an email from RIAT today and this bit is quite interesting...
Air forces from countries in the Middle East, Europe and the former Soviet bloc are the first to confirm their participation in next year's Royal International Air Tattoo –
We want you to send us the names of the three countries you believe have already agreed to take part in RIAT 2011. One comes from the Middle East, one from Western Europe and one from the former Soviet bloc
I only live 20 miles away from Fairford and I'm seriously considering only one arrival day and maybe departures this year.I was thinking that when i first read it. I give it to last under 5 minspikey01 wrote:Interesting that Riat have asked that Friat members do NOT post aircraft updates as soon as they appear in the Friat section on any forums...good luck with that one
pikey01 wrote:Interesting that Riat have asked that Friat members do NOT post aircraft updates as soon as they appear in the Friat section on any forums...good luck with that one
The prize is for FRIAT passes for 2012Psi wrote:So by process of elimination from the Fairford e-mail, it looks like the Romanians are due back in 2011?? With the Flemish and something form Oman. Nobody got the RIAT competition but as I have my tickets booked give it a go....... if you think i am right.
so you might as well still give it a go 
Hopefully the Orion will get a better spot this year 
