The photo caption is incorrect. The picture is actually of Rab Forbes, the chap mentioned in the article – perhaps the corporal is the photographer as suggested above. Rab is a Sqn Ldr with an AE brevet.

What about the static display aircraft flying in on the Saturday parking as static displays on the crowd line (where the Vulcan was parked last year) and flying out on the Sunday.

Static aircraft at Waddo are parked on the taxiway. Do you mean park on the grass in front of the crowd line? That would be a logistical nightmare, leave the aircraft and crews too far from the crowd, and be limited to smaller types that could taxy on grass.

Operational aircraft like the Nimrod and Sentry making a flypast instead of just landing.

They did. Also, one of our very rare Tristars made an appearance, on both days (thanks 216 Sqn – I’ll never slag off your cardboard sarnies again).

I understand crews are not display authorised but but a flypast with a nice top side view could be done.

Er – that’ll be a display then…….

Scott

Very interested to see your pictures. There is a very worthy project in the UK called The War Graves Photographic Project, which has the aim of “to photograph every war grave, individual memorial, MoD grave, and family memorial of serving military personnel from WWI to the present day and make these available within a searchable database. ” They are very approachable, and I’m sure they would be interested in your photos. A good chap to email is their co-ordinator, Steve Rogers – you can find him at

[email]steve@twgpp.org[/email]

Regards, Sargs