Farnborough Airshow 2008

Just out of Curiosity and this is probably taking the thread away from it placement in Historic…

Bell/Boeing AH 2A ?
Searching the Bell website doesn’t throw anything up.

AH-2A was the South African atack helicopter…Denel AH-2A Rooivalk.

Anyone any clues?

Hi everyone, since we are in the new year, not tooo long until Farnborough:D

I was thinking of what will turn up. Apart from the standard Beoing, Lockheed Martin, Eurofighter, Saab, Airbus aircrafts, what may turn up?

Could any new Flanker series turn up, i.e Su-35, 34?

Could the F-35 make a breif appearence?

Will Saabs new gripen turn up, the super hornet powered version?

And is it pretty certain the F-22 Raptor will make an apperance.

Hopefully it will be a Farnborough to remember, like in the 90’s where we were treated to the best of the west, and the east.:cool:

I would not expect any Su’s turning up as I believe they stated last year that they were pulling out of displaying there wares due to costs:mad:
pretty certain of the F-22, dont count on it! it was pulled from Paris which has alot more pulling power than Farnborough because it upset the training scedule!!
F-35 supplied by Airfix:D 😀 😀

Phill
www.outflankeduk.com

[QUOTE=Propstrike;1211172]It lists the Vulcan, which would have been pretty optomistic in 2006- mind you, it’s pretty optomistic in 2008!

Aah, right, the flying display list is a provisional 2008, the link I went to above goes straight to the 2006 “overall” list.

I used to go to Farnborough, until a sudden realisation that it had become tiresome, expensive, and the run in a complacent manner as though just by being the ‘Farnborough Airshow’ bestowed upon it qualities of greatness, its wonders to behold.

The specacle and excitement has been regulated out of it, displays too high, too far away. ……

Fings ain’t wot they used to be ! ….

Too right Propstrike. I have been every year since 1972, but the last few shows have lead me to think, “Am i just here out of habit these days..think I may give the next one a miss?”

2006 did bring three “new” types to Farnsbarns, the Bell Osprey, the Canadair ariborne radar biz-jet for the RAF (name escapes me as it’s such a boring type) and the A380, which were new types I could add to my “Seen it/Photographed it” list, but apart from that it was very much “same old same old”. Had I been at RIAT the weekend before I probably wouldn’t have bothered.

I blame the prolonged development cycles of modern types, combined with the loss of urgency brought about by the “peace dividend”.

So many projects these days involve re-working or upgrading exisiting airframes, and lets face it once you’ve seen one F16/Tornado etc you’ve seen em all….unless you are lucky enough to fly in them and thus appreciate the new whiz-bang electronic kit they have squeezed into another small corner of the airframe and cockpit, or hung on the outside. Sorry, addition of a another couple of small aerials or bumps/blisters grafted onto a well known airframe simply doesn’t warrant the description “new type” to me.

And so many of the other types on show have been around for ages, but are still desperately trying to attract sales so they are dutifully trotted out again :rolleyes: .

As you say, flying displays are so distant that you need decent binoculars or mega-zoom lenses to watch/photograph them 🙁 , and last year many aircraft displayed twice, so the display appeared longer then it actually need have been:diablo: . Spectator car-parking is now all off site, so you have to be bus’d-in and out like sardines and lug all your stuff around with you all day, as you can’t pop back to your car to drop or collect anything during the day 😡 … ticket prices are getting steep.

2008 may well be the first year I don’t go in since 1972….the gloss has definitely worn off for me 🙁 . Perhaps an appearance by an F22 might lure me in, but can you imagine the levels of site security our US “friends” will demand before they let one participate – We’ll probably all have to strip naked for searches, and have our DNA tested and verified before they’ll let us in….

Farnbore Airshow – it just ain’t worth the hassle these days.

It lists the Vulcan, which would have been pretty optomistic in 2006- mind you, it’s pretty optomistic in 2008!

I used to go to Farnborough, until a sudden realisation that it had become tiresome, expensive, and the run in a complacent manner as though just by being the ‘Farnborough Airshow’ bestowed upon it qualities of greatness, its wonders to behold.

The specacle and excitement has been regulated out of it, displays too high, too far away. The website ‘blurb ‘ has been written by a moron, or a Daily Mail hack- this is the shop window of the aerospace industry, yet they dribble on about the Red Arrows, and their ‘ breathtaking stunts’ !

Fings ain’t wot they used to be ! Bet they won’t even roll the Vulcan.

Are you sure Kodak? Looks like the 2008 page to me.

Some interesting new models listed:-

Eurofighter Typhonn
Chinock
F-15 Stirke Eagle

🙂
Sorry to be pedantic, but a bit of attention….

John

It may say 2008 but the list is without doubt 2006’s – they just haven’t updated yet. A bit if poor PR really. A list that full for Farnboro’ ’08 won’t be known until at least May.

Are you sure Kodak? Looks like the 2008 page to me.

Some interesting new models listed:-

Eurofighter Typhonn
Chinock
F-15 Stirke Eagle

🙂
Sorry to be pedantic, but a bit of attention….

John

full list here: http://www.farnborough.com/Attractions/StaticAircraft.aspx

Lots of classic stuff (trying desperately to justify this thread in the historics section) – aircraft which flew at the 1948 show…

Ignore that list – its from 2006!! 😉

Quote from the list ” Jetran B727-100 ” static, is that Boeing 727-100 ? old or what ? whats that all about ? Keith.

Neatly dealt with Lindys:)
Mind you, most of the ‘new’ aircraft seem to be old!:D

What? New aircraft being old?….. lol

Eurofighter Typhoon = 90% eap = 90% tORNADO = 75% TSR2….. etc…:D

or, Airbus A380 = 50% Guppy = 100% Tythe barn…..:D

don’t know what you mean……

Neatly dealt with Lindys:)
Mind you, most of the ‘new’ aircraft seem to be old!:D

full list here: http://www.farnborough.com/Attractions/StaticAircraft.aspx

Lots of classic stuff (trying desperately to justify this thread in the historics section) – aircraft which flew at the 1948 show…