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RAF Valley Families Day

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Red Dragon
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RAF Valley Families Day

Post by Red Dragon » Thu Aug 12, 2021 10:19 am

So far arrivals have been....

BAF 211 F-16AM FA-101
BAF 212 F-16AM FA-91

SNAKE 31 F-15E (492nd) 91-0315
SNAKE 32 F-15E (492nd) 91-0312 (boss bird)

Riot 2 Typhoon ZJ916 (The spare)
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Re: RAF Valley Families Day

Post by TAFFEVANS » Thu Aug 12, 2021 10:50 am

Red Dragon wrote:
Thu Aug 12, 2021 10:19 am
So far arrivals have been....

BAF 211 F-16AM FA-101
BAF 212 F-16AM FA-91

SNAKE 31 F-15E (492nd) 91-0315
SNAKE 32 F-15E (492nd) 91-0312 (boss bird)

Riot 2 Typhoon ZJ916 (The spare)
Thought it was
BAF211 FA-86
BAF212 FA-101
91-0312 Snake31
91-0315 Snake32

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Re: RAF Valley Families Day

Post by Red Dragon » Thu Aug 12, 2021 10:55 am

could be Taff, I'm just going by notes on social media/ FC posts and 360. If you can confim it as FA-86 great :-)
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Re: RAF Valley Families Day

Post by Tarnished1 » Thu Aug 12, 2021 12:11 pm

FA-86 had a miscoded box showing as "FA-91", much to the relief of many...

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Re: RAF Valley Families Day

Post by Red Dragon » Thu Aug 12, 2021 12:19 pm

Tarnished1 wrote:
Thu Aug 12, 2021 12:11 pm
FA-86 had a miscoded box showing as "FA-91", much to the relief of many...
Especially when it showed up with that tail! :clap:
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Re: RAF Valley Families Day

Post by snuzz » Thu Aug 12, 2021 12:38 pm

Hello
Any info on times for the B1 ?

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Re: RAF Valley Families Day

Post by Mike » Thu Aug 12, 2021 12:49 pm

snuzz wrote:
Thu Aug 12, 2021 12:38 pm
Hello
Any info on times for the B1 ?
Just after the Tu-160 display.
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Re: RAF Valley Families Day

Post by snuzz » Thu Aug 12, 2021 12:56 pm

Oh ok .So no B1 then .Have they cancelled the flypast .

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Re: RAF Valley Families Day

Post by Nighthawke » Thu Aug 12, 2021 1:27 pm

Where did you hear about a B-1 as there has been nothing posted anywhere else. Unless someone is pulling your...er leg!

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Re: RAF Valley Families Day

Post by Tarnished1 » Thu Aug 12, 2021 3:03 pm

CV-22B 10-0052 "Knife 72" flythro' along rwy 13 at 1533L

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Re: RAF Valley Families Day

Post by Tarnished1 » Thu Aug 12, 2021 3:06 pm

Also Juno ZM519 arr as "SYS31" presume connected with Arrows display.
Spit PRXIX PM631 arr from Hawarden to display and dep to Shawbury.
Chinook HC6A ZA680 (a relatively recent conversion at Boscombe, flying as Mk6A 4/20), displayed;
Chinook HC5 ZH899, also 27 Sqn, departed to Snowdonia as "Vortex 433".
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Re: RAF Valley Families Day

Post by Red Dragon » Thu Aug 12, 2021 3:09 pm

Nighthawke wrote:
Thu Aug 12, 2021 1:27 pm
Where did you hear about a B-1 as there has been nothing posted anywhere else. Unless someone is pulling your...er leg!
I know the man who organised it and it was OK'd by USAF, but I'm assuming it was scuppered by the types atrocious maintenance issues coupled with only 4-6 flying at any one time the B-1 was in my mind a non starter.
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Re: RAF Valley Families Day

Post by Tarnished1 » Thu Aug 12, 2021 3:12 pm

Crikey, I wonder what Tu-160 Blackjack maintenance issues are like then!

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Re: RAF Valley Families Day

Post by snuzz » Thu Aug 12, 2021 6:06 pm

i also heard from the organisers that the b-1 was given a go ahead for the flypast but must not of happened, so my leg is unpulled

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