im all for it, at the end of the day three things are important to bare in mind,

1) Its their aircraft
2) Its their money
and
3) its their airfield

i am happy for them whatever they decide to do 🙂

1) TSR.2 – stunningly beautiful totally unproven, i want her to show the world that she truly was a world class machine!

Complimented on either wingtip by a pair of

2) EE lightning F6 – an incredible machine that inspires awe and respect

so i think that formation would just be amazing but i know it’ll never happen, i can dream at least

Ben

i seem to remember someone mentioning that the spar was inspected not long ago and was found to be in fact in excellent condition with no visible cracks

http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showpost.php?p=1159791&postcount=25

this post by richard W shows it from this thread “NX611”

http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=74052&highlight=NX611

http://www.sallyb.org.uk/index.php?_a=viewDoc&docId=15

dunno the news doesnt look hopeful, i read somewhere that she’s not expected to fly until mid august.

Ben

When I bought my advance tickets, there was definitely a bit on the website that gave the prices for the advance tickets and the ‘on the gate’ tickets, which were over £10 more expensive. This is something they have recently decided on, presumably based on the advance ticket sales.

We always book into one of the enclosures too, just to ensure a reasonable view as the crowd line gets too much of a bun fight … so overall (including £3 for sending our tickets out by 2nd class post), the cost of our day out at RIAT is >£100.

Think we will be setting of at about 4am to try and avoid the inevitable Police traffic management farce that seems to contribute to most of the snarl-ups. :rolleyes:

Edit: Presumably everyone wants to see the Airbus 380 which is only flying on the Saturday…

will the A380 be there on sunday though? even if its not flying

just perusing google for any possible scale three view drawings of the vulcan, and found a good 5 pages of walkaround photographs of XM606

http://www.primeportal.net/hangar/bill_spidle2/avro_vulcan_b2_xm606/

she looks to be in fairly decent nick, compared to the aircraft next to her (look at the elevators to the left in the first picture)

Ben

i read somewhere about a chinook lifting a lightning, didnt it seriously mess up the chinook in question