Lovely Meteors Michael, I never got to see the RAE NF11 sadly.

I honestly can't decide whether he's genuine, or being sarcastic or just simply winding people up because he’s hacked off with the questioning of how good or not the participation list is looking this year. IF there are still 5 more announcements of things that might really please the enthusiast co...

Nice to see the US Army again. USAF AMC listed as declined so possibly no heavies from the Americans. Unless the an Reserve on ANG accept Yes still possibly get a C-17, the last couple of years it has appeared under a Reserve flag rather than the 437th. Very quiet update though this close to the sh...

Yet still vastly superior to what Farnborough offers these days!

Interesting to see 987 Buccaneer with its original bomb bay and numbers on the belly before it gained the more familiar bulged bay it paraded around many shows in the 90s. Also XL563 pre rippled. Nice post.

PC-7 crossover is great, some excellent shots considering the conditions.

One based aircraft on static display - fantastic effort from the home team!

Some nice shots with the lovely backdrop.

Looks like they've gained a darker grey scheme than when I saw the one at Boscombe show 33 years ago!

Nice shots.

So how long do we think we will have them at Lakenheath for? From what I’ve read, if it’s gonna happen won’t be until around 2030. There’s a lot of ifs and maybes about it still. By which time the F-15Es will have been at Lakenheath for 38 years! That's seriously old. We retired our Tornados after ...

Very nicely done sir.

Well caught, 10 years since I saw a Belgian one at RIAT.

lets say as it is guys..so far this year is crap! thats why nobody is chatting about it.every week we all think it has to improve and yet it somehow doesnt OK, fair enough everyone is entitled to a point of view, and fine saying on a forum "this year is crap", but to be honest its without context a...

chrissly wrote: ↑

Sat May 17, 2025 8:49 pm

Nice photo report!! (Small correction Twente -> Twenthe)

Cheers, I've seen it spelt with an h as well, but even Google Earth and Wiki (both very trustworthy ) spell it as Twente.

No worries, glad to help.

Did it have an RWR on top of the fin?

XT852 had one fitted, certainly by 1984, as far as I can tell XT853 never had one, certainly not by 1984.
Phantom FGR2 XT852 BAe Scampton by Paul Downes, on Flickr

looks like a planned manoeuvre to me. There’s a substantial dip over the horizon which makes it look far lower than possibly was and he doesn’t appear to power up as if he took evasive action. That's correct, as in a driving lesson emergency stop, when the navigator taps his sunglasses case on the ...

1996 saw the annual Dutch Open Day at Twente. Weather wasn't as good as the previous two, but still some nice items on show. A far side tour of the flightlines presented some good opportunities including stopping to see the new fleet of transports (Fokker 60s) up close. The Slovak MiG29 had a bit of...

The mid 1990s shows in the Netherlands were truly massive one day events, with flying displays lasting eight hours and static parks rammed with exotic hardware, the recently opened borders to Eastern Europe attracting multiple Czech and Slovak items and later the Polish and Hungarians. Volkel 1995, ...

My first and favourite Dutch, the fantastic 1994 show at Leeuwarden. I wish I could have spent more time on the flying, some great displays including a Spanish Mirage F1, the amazing Czech MiG21 and flame trailing MiG23 and the wonderful sight of a pair of Portuguese A-7Ps performing mirror pass and...

Quite a collection, great catch on the Colorado Uni Voodoo. And I can never recall seeing a camo Convair before. Brilliant post.