Fantastic day, many thanks to the BBMF for a great end of season spectacle and for my 2 year old daughter’s debut visit.

Can I suggest though an international ban on bone domes in warbirds? To me they just don’t look right.

Please tell me you’re not being serious

PM631 no longer has invasion stripes so it rules the BBMF aircraft out.

Seattle-Tacoma, Washington, USA

Hi pagen01, My friend, I have heard all sorts of rumours localy ….. “Its only here prior to its next appearance at the Lowestoft Airshow” ???? …… “the green paint is flaking and here for a touch up” ????? …… “The green paint is the wrong shade and its going to be resprayed completely” ….. ” its only here so the 10 local aviation photographers can post 3000 photos of it everywhere :diablo:”

At least one of those rumours is at least partially correct… 😉

Does anyone know if these two would have been flying yesterday (Sunday 26th) as well, could have sworn I saw them flying over Skipton in close formation.

You would have seen one of these with the MkIX.

Airborne.

If you are Corporal and above posted to Cranners on King Air’s, the RAF put you through them I believe as on Civi reg.

Unfortunately the BBMF of late has tended to keep those leaving the RAF on as Civilians working on the BBMF to retain the “knowledge” hence very very few new people get posted onto the Squadron compared to the past… Fine, but as they get older and retire, with the reduction of new RAF engineers learning as used to happen, they will end up with a skills deficit due to the lost turnover of manning..

Not all of that is strictly true…

I don’t believe any of the King Air postings at Cranwell are service personnel, it’s contracted out to a civilian company.

Also there are no civilian engineers at BBMF. All are service personnel, and of the 25-30 or so only 5 are on a FTRS contract.