These are lovely. I was at the arrivals for this one, weather was a bit mixed when the F-104Gs came in but nice when the G91Ts arrived, certainly a good mix of types attracted with the three nations being based there.

Great post.

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thank you . another nice set

I have 164663 for NK-400

Cheers for the info on that one.

Skylinerm28, in agreement with mustang5861 on NSAWC 50 which was in the green and grey camo scheme like 00. I do have a pic but haven't scanned it yet.

It was only due to display between 2am and 2.15am anyway, so without afterburners it would have been a p**s-poor effort!

Lovely light on the first KC-10, nice set of images.

Missed the event totally which was really annoying. I believe the SC9 was there in one its last outings, a machine I never got to see.

Nice memories.

Very nice, ages since I've seen an active Aviocar.

With a theme of Reconnaissance and a commemoration of the Berlin Airlift, 1998 brought in some interesting visitors. Perhaps not the biggest or best remembered of the giant shows of the 1990s, it had its moments, with rarities ranging from Ukrainian Air Force Tu22M3 and An72, splinter Czech MiG21 an...

100 years of 41 Squadron

Typhoon FGR4 ZK315 41(R) Squadron RAF Coningsby by Paul Downes, on Flickr

Cracking stuff Kev.

Overall it was a quieter IAT than what we had become accustomed to during the 90s, but when you look back there was still so much variety to see. Loving the F-117 shots and the Mirage IV. Lithuanian L39 was probably the rarest aircraft on show that year.

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Lovely stuff Prof, some great prop blur.

The Dutch turned up at RIAT with two as above plus two from 313sqn also with NATO 50th markings (an A and a B). The committee had stickers waiting to apply to the Belgian and Norwegian examples to join the Dutch and Danish on the runway for the grand finale flanking the Sentry. they left with the st...

2326 is stunningly beautiful and making the gold one look a little plain. Stunning collection of pics of a beautiful aircraft, I'm glad I saw some at Waddington using the range.

As we are on 1999, oddly this was the first of the Waddington show's I attended. I think some may have coincided with the Dutch show/Koksijde weekends hence non attendance until then! :blush: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50510805337_e92f71336e_b.jpg Su27P 595 Gromov Flight Research Institute ...

Only thing I'd say about C-3, was it was one of the F-27-100 versions, so it wouldn't have been a display aircraft. It did visit IAT in 1991 for example, if it was a show reference.

That must have been the only UK Airshow which took place that Year? If memory serves me.. Was due to go to Mildenhall and Leuchars but both cancelled....... Waddington hosted a pretty decent show with the Test Pilots Flankers, Voltige Victor, Mirage 2000, Viggen, Turkish F-4Es etc. Not sure about Y...

After seeing Michael's post it brought back flashes of what was a truly colossal show to end the 1990s glut of aircraft at the big shows at Fairford and Boscombe Down. The aerial photo of the static at the western end in 1999 published in the 50 years of Tattoo book emphasises the wealth of types st...

I’ve seen that the blue angel’s schedule has RIAT weekend free, could we potentially see those over here? Always wanted to see them so fingers crossed I'm sure I've seen that the fly to close together to display in the UK and maybe europe as well So probably a no All the way across the Atlantic lik...

Glad you put up the 90th tail Tony, I never got a chance of that one. Did it ever fly with the tail painted or was it only ever a static frame?