Sorting through some paperwork, I happened upon this. The Flying display for the Saturday at Mildenhall 2000.
Where apart from maybe at Fairford, would you get a line up like this today ? Also sad to think that a lot of those aircraft
have been scrapped, or are languishing in a field somewhere, rotting away.
By: Alan Clark - 2nd August 2017 at 01:08
That’ll have me going through my Mildenhall photos for that year, I know I have some photos of the B-52, B-2 & Swedish AF C-130 I have a feeling I may have missed the start of the display as I was on the train over from Manchester and even the first of the day didn’t get you there for the start.
By: AlanR - 1st August 2017 at 21:57
WoW !!
By: Bruggen 130 - 1st August 2017 at 16:11
It shouldn’t take long to figure out.
20476096_10214128877756146_2846522881946137738_n by philip elcock, on Flickr
By: AlanR - 31st July 2017 at 20:31
If anyone has any older flying display line ups, feel free to add them.
By: 1batfastard - 31st July 2017 at 19:12
Hi All,
It’s easy to forget when marvelling at the B-2 today it has been in service for just over 20yrs and they have already retired the Nighthawks.
Geoff.
By: RAFRochford - 31st July 2017 at 19:11
I do miss Mildenhall. I did a ten year stint there between 1985 and 1995. I used to stay there for the week and do the arrivals days etc, one show day on the perimeter and one day inside the show. Stayed at a B&B called the “White House” on Beck Row if I recall correctly. Always a great mix of aircraft to see, and the weather usually played ball most of the years I went. And all those Polish dogs, burgers and cold Bud too….yum!
I stopped going when all the participants became mostly 50 shades of grey and F-16 shaped!
By: RAFRochford - 31st July 2017 at 18:54
….Well, I think one of the Falcons “bombed” one of our burger vans at Weston only a few years back. So they must be still around somewhere.
Must have got a bit peckish on the way down! :dev2:
By: hampden98 - 31st July 2017 at 17:11
Btw what happened to the Falcons. Haven’t seen them and the 130 for decades.
By: hampden98 - 31st July 2017 at 17:09
I seem to recall one Fairford in the 90’s when there were 6 or 7 display teams in the line up. It was one year where temps went into the 90’s!
By: trumper - 31st July 2017 at 12:22
Brilliant days out
By: Paul Thayre - 31st July 2017 at 11:32
Great memories! Those 20 years or so at the end of the last century(!!!) of Mildenhall Air Fetes were never to be missed.:eagerness:
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