By: Avro's Finest - 19th January 2005 at 20:03
I saw them practicing while at Coningsby on ATC Camp for a week in 1985; an F3 and the Spit XIX with D-Day stripes and coded DL-E, can’t remember the serial. Great week, that was, ended up sitting deep in the bowels of the Lancaster while the boys ran up the engine that they’d just been tinkering with. That was my reward for passing one of them a spanner… 😀
Mk XIX – PM631 = DL-E. Got some nice air to air of that one, I’ll dig em out and put them on for you.
By: Gareth Horne - 19th January 2005 at 19:52
The blenheim/tornado formation was seen at Finningley (1993) as Steve says, the BBMF were still doing the F3/Spit formation as late as 1992 (Coningsby) too…
By: Arabella-Cox - 19th January 2005 at 12:29
I saw them practicing while at Coningsby on ATC Camp for a week in 1985; an F3 and the Spit XIX with D-Day stripes and coded DL-E, can’t remember the serial. Great week, that was, ended up sitting deep in the bowels of the Lancaster while the boys ran up the engine that they’d just been tinkering with. That was my reward for passing one of them a spanner… 😀
By: Manonthefence - 19th January 2005 at 12:21
From my memory didn’t the BBMF do a synchro routine with a spit and and F2/3 for a year in the mid 80’s?
Bloomin’ marvellous it was too1
It was one of the Griffon engined PR machines, and it was indeed Bloomin marvelous.
By: Mark12 - 19th January 2005 at 11:52
Oh! Some of those shiny interceptor things.
AB910 at the 50th Anniversary of 92 Squadron bash.
Geilsenkirchen November 1967.
Scanned from an original photograph with thanks to an unknown photographer.
Mark
By: tangoringo - 19th January 2005 at 11:24
From my memory didn’t the BBMF do a synchro routine with a spit and and F2/3 for a year in the mid 80’s?
Bloomin’ marvellous it was too1
By: Arabella-Cox - 19th January 2005 at 10:29
Pretty certain there was a similar formation at Finningley one year. They also managed to get a Hawk and Gnat up together, along with a Spitfire and Tornado F3.
Note to self – get that box of photos down from the loft one day….
By: benyboy - 19th January 2005 at 00:42
Cheers Cas. Even with the wing at full span surley that Tornado was ready to fall out of the sky !
By: cas - 19th January 2005 at 00:31
it is also possible a formation photograph taken at B.Ae bristol. on one of the blenheims return flights to bristol it was in formation with tornados
By: benyboy - 18th January 2005 at 23:55
Thank you crazymainer. Have you seen any better pics ?
By: crazymainer - 18th January 2005 at 23:15
Hi,
I think it was at Duxford for the 50Anv. of the end of WWII show.
RER
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