This is the Fairford Section - all Spanish Hornet info should be in the Marham Section.

Duplicated...

Do people remember a ship burning years ago in the English Channel and the RAF bombed it and sunk it. Could this be a solution. Just for the record, Fleet Air Arm Buccaneers tried to ignite the oil but were unsuccessful. I seem to remember news footage at the time showing (RAF?) Hunters being invol...

Two Protectors have just been towed out of the hangar; there are fuel bowsers around one of them. Maybe another flight in the next few hours.... days.... weeks...?

Since no-one's mentioned it on here yet; PR010 made its maiden flight this morning, just before the CW ' rush hour'. Two long circuits with low overshoot and full stop. Nothing spectacular, but interesting to see.

New series on Sky History on Monday 6th January at 8pm. A 6 parter, the first 3 being on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday this week, feature the F-15, B-17 and B-25. Predictably, that'll be "History's Greatest American Aircraft", then...? ;) Nevertheless, I hope this series finds its way onto FTA, at ...

reaper493 wrote: ↑

Wed Nov 06, 2024 12:56 pm

ZZ190 showing as airborne and inbound to Waddington for some approaches.

Good to hear, thanks!

seven wrote: ↑

Thu Oct 24, 2024 7:01 pm

Wasn't it £35 last (this) year?

Just checked my 2024 ticket; I paid £34, which was a price freeze from 2023 prices. I think that might have been an 'early-bird' offer price...?

Technically, I'd say it's the 34 overrun end, since that was the runway in use at the time. However, standard 'spotter' terminology is to identify 'ends' by the relevant approach threshold, regardless of which runway is in use; as POL pointed out, the big white number painted on the tarmac makes a p...

Cat1, I fully respect your opinion, and you are of course entitled to state it here 'without fear or favour'. From Hill's point of view, it even seems a reasonable arguement, and in the (necessarily) objective and unemotional way that organisations like the CAA make their decisions, I think there ma...

Fifty years!
I well remember seeing the Hawk display at Farnborough 74, just a couple of weeks after the first flight. A fairly tame display, as you might expect, but even then it looked like a winner.

Perhaps they should have called it TSR3...?

You're very welcome! In fact, further reading has shown that it's even more complex than I thought. As well as the 25 MFI-15 Safaris that the RNoAF bought in 1981, they then bought 4 MFI-17 Supporters in 1987 (presumably to make up for attrition losses, as four of the Safaris had been written off by...

MFI-15 is the civil version. The military version is MFI-17. It's a bit more complex than that, which is why people get confused. The MFI-15 Safari is the original version, designed for both civilian and military basic training. The MFI-17 Supporter is a later version optimised for military use, wi...

Does the RAF or any British Miliary branch have an AC-130 Gunship or any similar type aircraft? Well, the nearest thing to a 'gunship' in UK service that I can think of: When we see the Chinook display, they sometimes have a heavy machine gun mounted on the ramp. Not quite in the AC-130 league, tho...

It's been 09.00 - 19.00 (9am - 7pm) for the last couple of years. I'd expect the same this year, but I haven't seen it confirmed.

MikeN wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 12, 2024 1:49 am

So far weather looking good for Saturday 7/20/24.

It's a long way ahead to start pinning you hopes on a good forecast...

...and to avoid confusion, in the UK it's 20/7/24.

True, that was at the slightly smaller Greenham Common.

For completeness sake and as a future deployment end guide, on Mon 17 Jun there was a mass photoshoot,in two sessions,for what was possibly all personnel on this deployment.They were standing on the wings,and several with heads sticking out of the cockpit,of jet 0018,the nearest to the Marston Meys...

Sometimes numbers count and one -35 with four bvr missiles will be at a disadvantage against three -57s with a total of 12. But those three Su-57s would represent about10% of Russia's entire fleet of the type (14% if we ignore test & dev airframes). Pro-rata, they'd be facing over 80 NATO F-35s! I ...