RAF heritage flight

Ok theres more than i thought.
Anything official though?

Sure Ive seen pictures of a Harrier GR5 or 7 with a Sopwith Pup at an airshow :confused:

what about the Vulcan flypast with Lanc at Waddo this year, or the Sea Vixen flypast with Seafire and Jet Provost at HMS Ark Royal’s commisioning ceremony last year, or the Avon Trio at southend afew years ago (Hunter [Miss D], Canberra and Sea Vixen. Or even the Gnat flypast with Red Arrows some years ago on their anniversary. Give me awhile and I’m sure we can think of afew more.

Last years Kemble airshow featured the Classic Flight Meteor displaying with the Typhoon.

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Richard

OOpps 😮

Could something on a slighty bigger scale be done?

Cheers

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Richard

After reading the canadian heritage flight thread is it time for the UK to follow in the us and canads footsteps and do something similar.

We have an airworthy lanc, vulcan, various spits and hurri’s and some pre war beauties at shuttleworth and a number of hunters and gnats e.t.c.

So should the RAF or a civilan group set something up.

I dont think you could have all the aircraft based at one location but when a display is requested they could form up for the display then return to there home bases.

Any Comments or views?

serviceable aircraft?…Mine would be

BBMF Hurricane Night Reaper
BBMF Spitfire mk2
BBMF Spitfire xix
Typhoon

Lets hope we can show how its done!!!

What an odd choice three types from one five year period (two types similar), and a type with as yet no RAF heritage or action.

Unfortunately performance issues would preclude most pre WW.II aircraft in a formation, but a Gladiator, earlier Spitfire mark, Hunter and Tornado would make a good and realistic (if a little fighter biased) representative display.

Wish list would be Hind, Lancaster, Vulcan and Tornado!

There was also a display using Spit IIa P7350 and a Tornado (F.3?) back in the early 90s.

Ive also seen pictures of PM631 doing the same display when she was in very high gloss camo with D day stripes. Think it was the late 1980’s and the tornado then was the F2.

90 years of the RAF

correct me if i am wrong, and i probably am:p

But as much as i love the BBMF, that was 60 years ago, and before that we had WW1 ,with a Massive loss of life, but it seems to me the RAF only centres itself around World War 2 , I would like to see something that spans the RAF ages through time, with the RAF or contracted body to run a small fleet of aircraft through the ages, from ww1 to 30s to 50s 60s 70s to 80s to today ,with the VAST amount of cash our govt seems to throw away some money into keeping our heritage alive wouldnt go a miss,
this would be a nice line up personally speaking,

Camel, Hawker hind,hurricane spitfire,lancaster, Meteor Vampire,Lightning ,Hunter,Vulcan,tornado, and euro tyhoon ,

the cost would be enormous, but you got to admit it would look nice,

There was also a display using Spit IIa P7350 and a Tornado (F.3?) back in the early 90s.

Last years Kemble Airshow had the Typhoon do a paired display with the Classic Flight Meteor NF, and as much as Im a fan of the Spitfire I thought it was a much better display than the Typhoon and Spit at Duxford I saw at the BBMF show.

A Lanc and Vulcan flyby would be very very 😎

Found this on Airliners.net

http://www.airliners.net/photo/UK—Air/Supermarine-389-Spitfire/1222406/M/

In holland we had the last couple of years a formation of a F-16 with a B-25 and a Spitfire. We also had a formation with a hunter and a F-16. So I think this would be a great idea and what about a formation of a C-130 and a C-47

You need something to represent different generations but obv aircraft that keep up with the typhoon which rules out the likes of a sopwith camel

So my suggeston would be EITHER spitfire or hurricne (a war time mark) then possibly a meteor, hunter then typhoon
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Roasting

I think it would be a great idea to do something like this as the heritage flights in the states do serve tribute to the current service and those who came before.

But maybe with less red tape as apparently the heritage pilots on the historic side have to be security vetted and go through training in the states but most are ex service people anyway which seems a bit odd but serves a purpose.

But i would look forward to a Vulcan & Lancaster flypast or a hunter & eurofighter flypast, i know they did the spitfire & eurofighter one before anyone says it very emotive it was but they were both RAF machines.

curlyboy