R.I.A.T 2017

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Appreciate it's a little early to start a thread on this, but The USAF Thunderbirds is newsworthy I think

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aeropilot said:

pablo said:

At a guess the grey pointy things like F15, 16, 22 and 35 should be easy enough, an A10 and a T53 (Talon?) would be nice to see. F117A would be awesome and I'll have an F111 too please...

You're a decade too late to see a F117, as they were retired in 2008, and 2 decades too late for a F111 as they were retired 20 years ago!!

pablo said:

U2 or SR72 would be my dream come true but as far as the U2 goes, winning the lottery has better odds.. So the port entail from the current fleet is good, Current stuff is fairly generic but still interesting to most.

U2/TR-1......if you are really lucky they might do, as they still do dets at Fairford for them once in a while.
I guess you mean a SR-71 though......and again you're 20 years too late for that.
In fact the USAF 50th Anniversary Airshow at Nellis AFB in Nevada that I went to in 1997 had one of the very last public displays of the SR-71

U2's are at Fairford a lot recently.

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Eric Mc said:

One turned up at Farnborough in 1992 (I think). It didn't take part in the flying display but I did see it landing. Smokey old brute too.

In 2000, the Luftwaffe displayed a Eurofighter, which escorted down to about 500 feet by a Phantom.
I remember someone saying the Eurofighter was due, and then seeing this "smokey" dot on the horizon, being very surprised, only for it to break into two aircraft, which the Eurofighter being the cleaner one.

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NJK44 said:

Bring on the SR72. Not meant to be ready until 2030, but we all know that's BS and it's flying right now.

Can't wait for it to turn up at RIAT

Its stealth and been operating out of there for 6 mont......

Wait, I've said too much, I can see a black helicopter circling above....

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aeropilot said:

pablo said:

At a guess the grey pointy things like F15, 16, 22 and 35 should be easy enough, an A10 and a T53 (Talon?) would be nice to see. F117A would be awesome and I'll have an F111 too please...

You're a decade too late to see a F117, as they were retired in 2008, and 2 decades too late for a F111 as they were retired 20 years ago!!

pablo said:

U2 or SR72 would be my dream come true but as far as the U2 goes, winning the lottery has better odds.. So the port entail from the current fleet is good, Current stuff is fairly generic but still interesting to most.

U2/TR-1......if you are really lucky they might do, as they still do dets at Fairford for them once in a while.
I guess you mean a SR-71 though......and again you're 20 years too late for that.
In fact the USAF 50th Anniversary Airshow at Nellis AFB in Nevada that I went to in 1997 had one of the very last public displays of the SR-71

U2's are at Fairford a lot recently.

Today and yesterday.