RIAT 2011
30 April 2011, 10:01 AM
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Ive got my hotel and ticket booked but so far it looks like an average turnout, pretty disappointing from the Yanks so far considering its the 40th anniversary of RIAT.
For me the hightlights are the Fairey Swordfish and the DH Vampires. Seems a great day for F16 fans.....
I've only listed those flying:
UK Military
Hawk T1 (x10) The Red Arrows
Hawk T1 (x2)
Hurricane iiC
Lancaster
Spitfire PRXIX
Tucano T1 (x2)
Tutor T1 1
Fairey Swordfish Mk.II LS326
US Military
A-10
Austrian Air Force
Saab J105 OE
Belgian Air Force
F-16AM (x2)
French Air Force
Rafale B (x2)
Royal Danish Air Force
F-16 x 2
Royal Netherlands Air Force
AH-64D Apache
CH-47D Chinook
F-16 (X2)
Royal New Zealand Air Force
Boeing 757
Boeing 757
Royal Norwegian Air Force
DH Vampire T55 (x2)
F-16 (x2)
Swedish Air Force
JAS 39C Gripen x 2
Turkish Air Force
F-16 (x2)
Updated list can be found here
For me the hightlights are the Fairey Swordfish and the DH Vampires. Seems a great day for F16 fans.....
I've only listed those flying:
UK Military
Hawk T1 (x10) The Red Arrows
Hawk T1 (x2)
Hurricane iiC
Lancaster
Spitfire PRXIX
Tucano T1 (x2)
Tutor T1 1
Fairey Swordfish Mk.II LS326
US Military
A-10
Austrian Air Force
Saab J105 OE
Belgian Air Force
F-16AM (x2)
French Air Force
Rafale B (x2)
Royal Danish Air Force
F-16 x 2
Royal Netherlands Air Force
AH-64D Apache
CH-47D Chinook
F-16 (X2)
Royal New Zealand Air Force
Boeing 757
Boeing 757
Royal Norwegian Air Force
DH Vampire T55 (x2)
F-16 (x2)
Swedish Air Force
JAS 39C Gripen x 2
Turkish Air Force
F-16 (x2)
Updated list can be found here
get him to hijack a lancaster, in fact was that him yesterday?
30 April 2011, 11:38 AM
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30 April 2011, 12:49 PM
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Best and easiest way to stop it climbing too high after a full power climb into a wingover Big S. Its easy to do. And you can close the throttles which makes everyone think the engines have stopped!
If you try to push the nose down everything hits the ceiling which annoys the navigators and you gain 500 feet more than you want to.
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30 April 2011, 06:38 PM
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Id love to see one of these fly again, sadly very unlikely to happen over UK airspace 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3xVA...eature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3xVA...eature=related
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_oHU...embedded#at=30
Bit like my scooby sometimes in a multistory car park setting car alarms off. LOL
Bit like my scooby sometimes in a multistory car park setting car alarms off. LOL
30 April 2011, 11:59 PM
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Looking at the list the Austrian Saab really takes the biscuit........
stepping back a few years when I went to air shows all I wanted was a collection of warbirds that brought a tear to my eye as they saved the day, some really heavy metal that rolled to show a bomb bay that could drop some serious iron on the Warsaw Pact and the rest being so loud they made your guts shake......
Then stepping back to my childhood........the Barnstormers LOL
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stepping back a few years when I went to air shows all I wanted was a collection of warbirds that brought a tear to my eye as they saved the day, some really heavy metal that rolled to show a bomb bay that could drop some serious iron on the Warsaw Pact and the rest being so loud they made your guts shake......
Then stepping back to my childhood........the Barnstormers LOL
Shaun
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2006 was a great RIAT, the Russian came to the party and bought this show stopper
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0P1_...eature=related
The aircraft is one of the six pre-built MiG-29M before 1991, later received thrust-vectoring engine and fly-by-wire technology. It served as a thrust-vectoring engine testbed and technology demonstrator in various air shows to show future improvement in the MiG-29M. It has identical avionics to the MiG-29M. The only difference in the cockpit layout is an additional switch to turn on vector thrust function. The two RD-133 thrust-vectoring engines, each features unique rotating nozzles which can provide thrust vector deflection in all directions. However, despite its thrust-vectoring, other specifications were not officially emphasized. The aircraft is being demonstrated along with the MiG-29M2 in various air shows around the world for potential export. The aircraft is usually used as an aerobatic demonstrator
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Having grown up in Cirencester just down the road we used to go to Fairford for the open day when the USAF had the base for there tanker fleet. You could take a car load in for five pounds and it was a great day out, a bottle of cold bud was a pound and there burgers made macdonalds look like a joke !
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