BoB Finningley '92 - a weather wipe out!

[Cessna954]

The 1992 BoB Display at Finningley was billed to include the Blue Angels, so it was a must attend event at the end of the season. A mate and I travelled up from the Thames Valley on the Saturday stayed at one of the new budget hotels called a ‘Travel Lodge’.

The next day dawned very grey with thick fog, but there was hope it would soon burn off and we would get a full air display. Alas, that was not to be and all who attended will recall this particular BoB airshow for being largely a weather wipe-out for flying acts.
On with a selection of static photos taken, that will hopefully convey how grey it was (just look at the flood lights in some).

The Blue Angles packing up their gear in to their TC-130G Fat Albert having given up on the possibility of flying. If I recall correctly an F-18 did fly on a weather check, or am I just imagining that?
United States Marine Corps Lockheed TC-130G Hercules 151891 by Neil Brant, on Flickr

Excellent participation from the Portuguese Air Force
Portuguese Air Force Vought A-7P Corsairs 5522 & 5511 by Neil Brant, on Flickr

Portuguese Air Force Northrop T-38A Talons 2601 & 2611 by Neil Brant, on Flickr

A variety of Falcons
Belgian Air Force General-Dynamics F-16A Falcon FA-120 by Neil Brant, on Flickr

Royal netherlands Air Force General-Dynamics F-16A Falcon J-213 by Neil Brant, on Flickr

Belgian Air Force General-Dynamics F-16A Falcon FA-111 by Neil Brant, on Flickr

United States Air Force General-Dynamics F-16C Falcon 86-0303 by Neil Brant, on Flickr

Royal Norwegian Air Force General-Dynamics F-16B Falcon 712 by Neil Brant, on Flickr

RAF participation, happy days and memories Royal Air Force British Aerospace Hawk T1 XX224 by Neil Brant, on Flickr

Royal Air Force English Electric Canberra T17A WD955 by Neil Brant, on Flickr

Royal Air Force Panavia Tornado GR1 ZA410 by Neil Brant, on Flickr

Royal Air Force Panavia Tornado F3 ZG730 by Neil Brant, on Flickr

Royal Air Force 74Sqn McDonnell-Douglas F-4K Phantom FGR2 XT910 by Neil Brant, on Flickr

Royal Air Force 208Sqn Blackburn Buccaneer S2B XX893 by Neil Brant, on Flickr

At least it looks as though the Royal Navy showed it had an all weather fighter
Royal Navy 899 NAS BAe Sea Harrier FRS1 ZD613 by Neil Brant, on Flickr

A few other NATO visitors
Aéronavale Nord 262A s/n 51 by Neil Brant, on Flickr

United States Air Force McDonnell-Douglas F-15C Eagle 80-0046 by Neil Brant, on Flickr

On the Finningley fire dump XX297
Royal Air Force British Aerospace Hawk T1 XX297 by Neil Brant, on Flickr

The scan quality is variable as I've been working my way through thousands of 35mm slides over the past 15 years and continually learning and improving on it.

Neil

[roughcutter]

Don't knock 'em Neil, they're fine scans. It was a crying shame about the weather because it was an absolute stonking line-up (certainly as good as the 91 show). I even went to the Biffa lane the day before for the arrivals and got drowned there too. heyho.

What scanner are you using bud?

[ciaranchef]

fantastic set of pics, some eyeball jarring colour schemes on those F-16s Interesting to see the crashed Red being used there..

[Cessna954]

It was a cracking line-up and despite the gloom the static shots came out ok.

What scanner are you using bud?

I'm using a Nikon LS50 and the Vuescan software/driver. After many years of use the circuitry stopped working last year and finding a second hand one on eBay looked quite costly. Thankfully I found a site that sold parts and simply swapped over the circuit board, and it worked again.

Another 5 years and I may have scanned them all, and then sell the Nikon for more than I paid for it originally! Or keep it and re-scan many of the early scans.

Neil

[Seahawk 11]

Great set of photos of a very good show despite the weather,
cheers for posting them,

Rob

[Stug298]

The blue angels gave a very good but rather flat display due to the low cloud .....thanks for sharing the pics...

[Thunder]

Is that not the BA F/A-18B taxing in under the wing of Fat Albert in the first pic?

Another great selection from days sadly gone

[Precinct7]

drove up from London area early Saturday, had been to Finningley BoB's a few times before so knew the best way in avoiding traffic !

as everyone has said was a great show again, i recall the BA's flying late afternoon, we were by that great fish & chip shop
next to the NAFFI supermarket on the road to the front gate,

as you can see from the crowds in the background the weather did not stop the great British public turning out in force

was this the last show or was it one more ??

[paddyboy]

Hi Neil

Some cracking pics there

We spent most of the day tucked up in our VW T2

Portuguese SLUFFs and Northrops were the stars of that static line-up for me

Thanks for posting

Paddyboy

[raptor9]

Yep, remember the day, but at least the BA managed their slot well.

[SW Sky Blue]

Good stuff, I remember I went to Leuchars that day and was on my way back to King's Cross on the train and managed to see the Blue Angels displaying low through the murk from the train

[Sparky 119]

Good stuff, I remember I went to Leuchars that day and was on my way back to King's Cross on the train and managed to see the Blue Angels displaying low through the murk from the train

I was sat next to you

[roughcutter]

drove up from London area early Saturday, had been to Finningley BoB's a few times before so knew the best way in avoiding traffic !

as everyone has said was a great show again, i recall the BA's flying late afternoon, we were by that great fish & chip shop
next to the NAFFI supermarket on the road to the front gate,

as you can see from the crowds in the background the weather did not stop the great British public turning out in force

was this the last show or was it one more ??

I think 94 was the last one

[bvs]

Lovely set of pics - those were the days

[roughcutter]

It was a cracking line-up and despite the gloom the static shots came out ok.

What scanner are you using bud?

I'm using a Nikon LS50 and the Vuescan software/driver. After many years of use the circuitry stopped working last year and finding a second hand one on eBay looked quite costly. Thankfully I found a site that sold parts and simply swapped over the circuit board, and it worked again.

Another 5 years and I may have scanned them all, and then sell the Nikon for more than I paid for it originally! Or keep it and re-scan many of the early scans.

Neil

I used a Dimage Scan Dual 3 for about twelve years until it croaked about four years ago. And then last Summer I invested in a Plustec 8200i (to stop me going stair-crazy during the lock down), although I wasn't blown away by the Silverscan software that came with it. Like yourself I switched over to Vuescan, I've never looked back.

[Seacat192]

Good selection, Neil.

Thanks for posting.

[Unknown74]

Would have loved to attend a Finningley Airshow unfortunately it was always the same day as Leuchars so being a Scot had to attend Leuchars.

[F3]

These are all excellent given the murky conditions. Quite the worst Finningley weather wise apart from the total peasouper of 1980 where I took just half a doz pics of the static and gave up completely on the flying where the only things visible were the shadowy outline of the Vulcan on its low pass and the reheat on the Tornado!

[Sid-104]

I recall an Air France Concorde wanting to depart just as the Blue Angels commentary team had set up in the middle of the taxiway ahead of lt. I believe there was a short debate about who had priority, needless to say, USA first, France second.

Sid.

[raptor9]

Yes, this, sadly, was the Concorde that eventually crashed I believe.