Royal International Air Tattoo 2024 General Discussion Thread

[James Cutting]

I think Mark you have to click on to each flying display

Canadian CF-188 is ? (TBC)
Embraer KC-390
Czech AF Gripen is ? (TBC)
Danish F-16 is ? (TBC)
Midnight Hawks is ? (TBC)
German A400M is ? (TBC)
German Typhoon is ? (TBC)
Hungarian Gripen is ? (TBC)
Italian Typhoon is ? (TBC)
Italian C-27J ? (TBC)
Italian T346 ? (TBC)
Jordanian Falcons ? (TBC)
Polish F-16 ? (TBC)
Qatar F-15QA
BBMF Lancaster
Red Arrows
RC-135 (NATO Flypast)
Royal Navy Wildcat x2
Solvenian PC-9 is ? (TBC)
Spanish Harrier is ? (TBC)
Swedish Gripen is ? (TBC)
USAF U-2


(I have clicked each flying display and not included any with a red cross for Friday). A lot still TBC

Thanks Buddy,

Perks of a long meeting...

[cat1]

weather looking decidedly grumpy with reports differing...

time to get out the camera rain protector 1000.........the famous black sack.

[airtyphoon]

weather looking decidedly grumpy with reports differing...

time to get out the camera rain protector 1000.........the famous black sack.

Which forecast you looking at?

As the one I’m looking at shows temperatures up to 25 and no rain for the whole six days.

[James Cutting]

The forecasts are never accurate! Don't read in to them too much, what will be, will be

[RedsSnapper]

Canadian special scheme F-18 going through the mach loop ahead of arrival at Fairford on wednesday, according to their Instagram.

[pg1610]

Seems we are getting all four Qatari F15QA's

https://euro-sd.com/2024/07/major-news/ ... rnborough/

Well RIAT doesn't have them down as showing on static, but it would be nice.

It seems too they only fly 1 version a day, i.e. 1 fully armed, the next clean config etc. Shame we couldn't get both each day

The press release does not say static at Fairford it just says static , so could be at Farnborough which would make more sense as they try to sell these to Poland and Saudi Arabia

Would be nice to have it at Fairford of course but my guess is as stated
the spare could sit at Mildenhall or Lakenheath, again nothing I read says it will be at either show venue
time will tell

[reaper493]

Not sure on the source but apparently the Polish F-16s have also cancelled.

[James Cutting]

Understandable with last week if so.

[C24]

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/fo ... 2024-07-17

Enjoy yourselves

[James Cutting]

Polish AIr Force have now cancelled - C-130, 3 x F-16.

[seven]

7. 2 Yanks, 2 Ronaldo's and 3 Poles (2 for flying and the D in static.

[Harkins]

That was almost inevitable following the weekends tragic accident.

That's now 24% of the F-16 static line gone in just over a day.

[JRandall23]

Don’t suppose DBH will try to fill the gaps with something else’s last minute will they ?

[James Cutting]

7. 2 Yanks, 2 Ronaldo's and 3 Poles (2 for flying and the D in static.

Thanks - I hadn't clicked about a spare jet for flying.

[James Cutting]

That was almost inevitable following the weekends tragic accident.

That's now 24% of the F-16 static line gone in just over a day.

Still a pretty impressive line up though!

Don’t suppose DBH will try to fill the gaps with something else’s last minute will they ?

Possibly, but unlikely.

[65thAgressor]

I count sixteen f-16 left on static. Still a great showing,shame we lost the others.

[Nnthusiast]

Is the Invader still 'in country'? although a war bird of an older era it would look superb on Static (filling a little gap)

[seven]

Don’t suppose DBH will try to fill the gaps with something else’s last minute will they ?

Whilst some F-16E/F's would be a great replacement, unfortunately anything that could have replaced them would have already been invented and declined.

Swedish HF?

[seven]

Is the Invader still 'in country'? although a war bird of an older era it would look superb on Static (filling a little gap)

Yes, though oddly hasn't flown from Duxford since the day after it went to Fairford in June

[Al dunn]

Polish F16s have cancelled