Spit and 2 Typhoons Over Biggin

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We believe you….!

Hey. Why do you think I moved to Biggin Hill? 😀

…So it fits your user name…?! 😀

If i had not known about the planned flypast via various forums i too would have thought they were both Typoons as well. I was standing outside the hangar at Biggin looking towards the north to see if i could spot the formation when all of a sudden i could hear the sound of a Griffon and then, right over the hangar the formation flew, they then performed a few orbits above the airfield and one pass down runway 03.

A good start to what should be a great airfair week.

We believe you….!

Hey. Why do you think I moved to Biggin Hill? 😀

….(quite by chance).

We believe you….!

They flew right over my garden too! One of the benefits of having moved near to Biggin (quite by chance).

Put a big grin on my face I can tell you

Not much externally, but if you look inside the cockpit of the Rafale, there is an ashtray for the Gauloises

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what are the differences between the Typhoon and the Rafale?
Tony
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Not much externally, but if you look inside the cockpit of the Rafale, there is an ashtray for the Gauloises

Might be one for Modern Military forum, if you can understand the answers!
Both were designed as multi-role fighters, but the French showed a bit more forward thinking and made it carrier-based aswel (they did have big carriers at the time of spec).
Strangely, in a way the Rafale looks more like tha EAP (apart from intakes) demonstrator than the Typhoon does.
Timewise it was 3-4 years ahead of the Typhoon,it came about because France pulled out of the EFA project in the mid 1980s, both designs however can be traced to late 1970s requirements by the respective nations.

Are you back in 1943?

A Spit and 2 WW2 Typhoons. Now that’s a flypast i’d love to see.

Ok guys, back to my original reason for posting this thread, and the two fighters with the Spit. For those of us not ‘in the know’, what are the differences between the Typhoon and the Rafale? I can see from pics of the flypast that the pointy out fin things at the front are in diffefent places but at a quick clance they look the same. Were they designed on the same drawing board?

Tony
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I wholeheartedly agree – it would be marvellous if they were to publish them in a large paperback format. Well worth being able to have to keep and dip into at one’s leisure.

Stick to the Telegraph..they are running an ongoing daily series, Britain at War, in which the headlines of each day, 70 years ago, are reproduced. The reporting of Dunkirk was fascinating, it should get very interesting around August/September…..

So we are commemorating two hugely historic speeches made by the French (to be) and British leaders 70 years ago, for the rights of newspapers to publish front pages like that!
Makes you feel proud, eh:mad:

That’s about the Sun’s level – comparing 1940 with England’s chance of winning some bl**dy football tournament. Pathetic!

One of Churchill’s best.

The Sun’s take on it…

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/

Friday 11:00

Just had a Spitfire and 2 Typhoons in formation fly over my house in Biggin Hill.

Tony

Are you back in 1943?

There are a couple of nice pics of the flypast practice at Coningsby over on Fighter Control.

One of Churchill’s best.

Yes, Radio 5 played it this morning, underlaid by Elgar’s Nimrod.

Barstewards… Nimrod makes me cry every time, though I expect Winnie would have been flattered if he’d seen me.

So what’s the next big Winston speech anniversary? August 16th, IIRC, is the anniversary of “Never in the field…” If only I could remember which squadron’s CO said “Careful boys, Winston’s seen our slate!”

Adrian

It’s worth remembering that this speech was delivered 70 years ago, today, June 18 1940……spine tingling stuff.

….However matters may go in France or with the French Government or with another French Government, we in this island and in the British Empire will never lose our sense of comradeship with the French people. If we are now called upon to endure what they have suffered we shall emulate their courage, and if final victory rewards our toils they shall share the gains, aye. And freedom shall be restored to all. We abate nothing of our just demands—Czechs, Poles, Norwegians, Dutch, Belgians, all who have joined their causes to our own shall be restored.

What General Weygand has called the Battle of France is over. I expect that the Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilisation. Upon it depends our own British life, and the long continuity of our institutions and our Empire. The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be freed and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands.

But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new dark age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves, that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say,

This was their finest hour.