RIAT 2016

[NJK44]

AlexIT said:

I think the only one still performing in Italy is the one belonging to the Reparto Sperimentale Volo in Pratica di Mare (Rome).
I saw it last time at RIAT2014, last year I didn't go to any airshow. I truly hope it will keep flying.

Saying that, they had 3 tornados do 3 flypasts at RIAT 2015!

[AlexIT]

NJK44 said:

Saying that, they had 3 tornados do 3 flypasts at RIAT 2015!

But if I'm not mistaken they were 1 for each Country of the consortium. Or were all 3 from Italy?

[NJK44]

AlexIT said:

But if I'm not mistaken they were 1 for each Country of the consortium. Or were all 3 from Italy?

Yeah, 3 diffident countries

[Trevatanus]

NJK44 said:

AlexIT said:

But if I'm not mistaken they were 1 for each Country of the consortium. Or were all 3 from Italy?

Yeah, 3 diffident countries

Really struggled with the light that day !

RIAT2015 668 by Jim Pritchard, on Flickr

Edited by Trevatanus on Tuesday 31st May 12:11

[NJK44]

That sucks. I remember it being quite sunny?


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[NJK44]

Today's update:

Netherlands Air Force
AH-64D Apache 301 Squadron Helicopter Flying

Polish Air Force
F-16C 31.BLT Fighter Flying
PZL-130TC-2 Orlik 42.BLSz (Team Orlik) Military Trainer Flying

US Army Europe
AH-64D Apache 1-3rd AVN (ARB) Helicopter Static

Civvy

42B Ikarus RAF Halton Flying Club Trainer Static
DHC-1 Chipmunk Ben Griffiths Trainer Static
DHC-1 Chipmunk David Gillespie Trainer Static
DHC-1 Chipmunk James Lewis Trainer Static
DHC-1 Chipmunk Lindsay Irvine Trainer Static
DHC-1 Chipmunk Mark de Ridder Trainer Static
DHC-1 Chipmunk Paul Green Trainer Static
DHC-1 Chipmunk Roger Chamberlain Trainer Static
EV-97 Eurostar RAF Halton Flying Club Trainer Static
G550 Gulfstream Aerospace VIP Transport Static
Hunter F.58A Hawker Hunter Aviation Fighter Static
TB20 Trinidad Bruno Stocker Touring Static

[fatboy69]

I'm going.

Working airside again so, as for the last couple of years, I get an uninterrupted view of the runway.

So I get paid to watch the aircraft arrive on Thursday, display for the three days, leave on Monday & I get to go to the after-show 'hangar party!!!!'.

Can't wait.

[NJK44]

fatboy69 said:

I'm going.

Working airside again so, as for the last couple of years, I get an uninterrupted view of the runway.

So I get paid to watch the aircraft arrive on Thursday, display for the three days, leave on Monday & I get to go to the after-show 'hangar party!!!!'.

Can't wait.

You sir, are one lucky SoaB!

[fatboy69]

I certainly am lucky.

Not exactly hard work & for someone who likes aircraft it is just about perfect.

Looked after the BBMF crews last year as well the flight crew from XH558 & many other pilots & big wigs from all around the world.

Heard some great stories, meet some decent flyers & came home with a load of memorabilia - posters, models, mugs, badges etc (or crap as SWMBO calls it).

All in all being paid to watch aircraft fly is a hardship!!!! Not.

And as for the hangar party........

[NJK44]

Where do I sign up?!

[ecsrobin]

fatboy69 said:

I certainly am lucky.

Not exactly hard work & for someone who likes aircraft it is just about perfect.

Looked after the BBMF crews last year as well the flight crew from XH558 & many other pilots & big wigs from all around the world.

Heard some great stories, meet some decent flyers & came home with a load of memorabilia - posters, models, mugs, badges etc (or crap as SWMBO calls it).

All in all being paid to watch aircraft fly is a hardship!!!! Not.

And as for the hangar party........

I've always been disappointed by the hangar party, a partly cooked omelette and beer tokens that they would only let me use once and not all the spares from the aircrew of BBMF who had to fly home early followed by some st music. The only impressive thing is how they turn the hangar into an impressive venue space.

The only thing I regret is a yank pilot wanted to swap his B2 leather flying jacket for my flying suit one year, I declined as I would have just been in my undercrackers and boots. After the event I then realised how much that jacket was worth!

[NJK44]

US Apache display confirmed.

[eccles]

ecsrobin said:

fatboy69 said:

I certainly am lucky.

Not exactly hard work & for someone who likes aircraft it is just about perfect.

Looked after the BBMF crews last year as well the flight crew from XH558 & many other pilots & big wigs from all around the world.

Heard some great stories, meet some decent flyers & came home with a load of memorabilia - posters, models, mugs, badges etc (or crap as SWMBO calls it).

All in all being paid to watch aircraft fly is a hardship!!!! Not.

And as for the hangar party........

I've always been disappointed by the hangar party, a partly cooked omelette and beer tokens that they would only let me use once and not all the spares from the aircrew of BBMF who had to fly home early followed by some st music. The only impressive thing is how they turn the hangar into an impressive venue space.

The only thing I regret is a yank pilot wanted to swap his B2 leather flying jacket for my flying suit one year, I declined as I would have just been in my undercrackers and boots. After the event I then realised how much that jacket was worth!

My only time working there was back in 1989, and we managed to blag tickets to the Red Arrows 25th birthday party being put on at a nearby barracks by Shell UK,with BA stewardesses hostessing the event!
We were the only ground crew there apart from the Reds ground crew and the Chinook ground crew (Chinook was ferrying the reds back and fore after their display over the party).
I was on Tornados at the time but am ex Hawks, the Chinook ground crew were ex Hawks, so it ended up being a Hawk liney reunion. Couple that with a free bar, the next morning led to the top of our aircraft being put to good use.

[ecsrobin]

eccles said:

My only time working there was back in 1989, and we managed to blag tickets to the Red Arrows 25th birthday party being put on at a nearby barracks by Shell UK,with BA stewardesses hostessing the event!
We were the only ground crew there apart from the Reds ground crew and the Chinook ground crew (Chinook was ferrying the reds back and fore after their display over the party).
I was on Tornados at the time but am ex Hawks, the Chinook ground crew were ex Hawks, so it ended up being a Hawk liney reunion. Couple that with a free bar, the next morning led to the top of our aircraft being put to good use.

Brilliant :thumbs:

I always enjoy the Dutch C130 party although the last time I was there it was the other end of the line it was boiling hot and I couldn't be bothered to walk there so binned it off

[ukaskew]

Two MiG 29s confirmed for flying displays (Polish and Slovakian), what a year!

[aeropilot]

ecsrobin said:

eccles said:

My only time working there was back in 1989, and we managed to blag tickets to the Red Arrows 25th birthday party being put on at a nearby barracks by Shell UK,with BA stewardesses hostessing the event!
We were the only ground crew there apart from the Reds ground crew and the Chinook ground crew (Chinook was ferrying the reds back and fore after their display over the party).
I was on Tornados at the time but am ex Hawks, the Chinook ground crew were ex Hawks, so it ended up being a Hawk liney reunion. Couple that with a free bar, the next morning led to the top of our aircraft being put to good use.

Brilliant :thumbs:

I always enjoy the Dutch C130 party although the last time I was there it was the other end of the line it was boiling hot and I couldn't be bothered to walk there so binned it off

I remember when the Aussie's came over with the F-111's (may have been the when it moved to Boscombe that time?) and the support 707 they brought over seemed to be filled with umpteen pallets of 4X instead of anything they might need for the a/c

[ukaskew]

aeropilot said:

I remember when the Aussie's came over with the F-111's (may have been the when it moved to Boscombe that time?) and the support 707 they brought over seemed to be filled with umpteen pallets of 4X instead of anything they might need for the a/c

It was indeed Boscombe, have a photo of me as a 8 year old sat in the cockpit

[Trevatanus]

ukaskew said:

aeropilot said:

I remember when the Aussie's came over with the F-111's (may have been the when it moved to Boscombe that time?) and the support 707 they brought over seemed to be filled with umpteen pallets of 4X instead of anything they might need for the a/c

It was indeed Boscombe, have a photo of me as a 8 year old sat in the cockpit

Slightly different, but had my first ever taste of Mountain Dew at Greenham in 85 brought over by the Yanks in a similar way.

[NJK44]

ukaskew said:

Two MiG 29s confirmed for flying displays (Polish and Slovakian), what a year!

Bloody fantastic.

[aeropilot]

ukaskew said:

Two MiG 29s confirmed for flying displays (Polish and Slovakian), what a year!

Hope somebody doesn't schedule them to fly together.....