I agree Andy

we do sometimes take for granted the kindness offered by the Walton family……….. others don’t realise.

Dave actually spent £10,000 on getting it stripped, filled and painted!!

What a complete waste. Money to burn some people…. 😡

😡 Great, just great! Does the european airshow council achieve anything with their claims to stop events clashing!?
Biggin Hill same weekend and for the further travelled, a big event at Murcia, Spain. I wanna do all 3!!! 🙁

:rolleyes:

The Waddo appearance is more of a tribute because there is going to be a large gathering of ex-Canberra blokes there. This includes an invite to all squadrons who used to fly the Canberra to bring, if they can, one or two of their current aircraft. The Canberra Assoc will be there of course with its usual tented enclosure on the crowd line (on the Sunday) but there will also be a VIPish marquee on both days I believe for the expected crowds of ex-Can people. Methinks this will mostly be for VIP ex- and current aircrew though. I know it is certainly hoped that AA and Classic Flight can show up with the T.4 and B.6 – that would be good.

The RIAT appearance is probably going to be the last service Canberra display, anyway, the 39 Sqn blokes understandably want to go to the party there. :rolleyes:

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Indeed. Waddo have also invited former (& current!) Cranberry users to the party, though the chances of anything from India, Argentina,Peru, Venezuela etc are remote! Rumour control suggests that the NASA WB57 that appeared last October is due another European deployment around the same time and so ….. 😉

The German AF test unit could send something, far more likely than Boscombe Down sending anything interesting to mark the long and varied Canberra test roles around the world :rolleyes:

Be good to see a PR9 blasting round the skys, pity that it couldnt last the whole season!

Couple of piccy’s I found in my collection of the Bucc! Hope you like. 😉

Thats interesting, being as they’re mine and I posted them on page 2 of this thread! :confused: :diablo:

there is a huey and a bell 47 taking part in the helitech show at duxford this week, both static,
sorry don`t know the numbers will have a look tomorrow if I get a chance

Should be an Italian water bomber S64 Skycrane too, allegedly…

Where would the money come from?

Moggy

From all the savings in fuel they didnt use on the Sunday?….

Was anybody at Coningsby 1988, weather excrutiatingly hot with no clouds, palatable local cheap beer just for starters.
The first Queens Birthday flypast by Tornado F2’s took off for London and flew back in formation, though I can’t remember whether there were 9 or 16, I know that one had to abort and made the shortest landing I’ve ever seen by a Tornado, the rumour was that they had concrete in the nose in place of radar.
This was followed by a dogfight with the local OCU Phantoms which took up a lot of sky.
Highlight of the day was the assembly at the BBMF hanger of every flyable Spitfire from around the country plus several non flying gate guards, I seem to remember that 7 took off and made one ragged formation pass, including Spencer Flacks red one, I think that the Merlins were suffering from the heat, would this have been the biggest Spitfire formation from the Battle of Britain filming till Duxford’s Spitfire show?

I think you’re ahead of yourself – this sounds like the ’86 show Spitfires 50th, they flew 9 F2s (they had F3s by ’88 ) and 2 appeared with a VC10 (pic) and IIRC 8 spits made it along with the unusual sight of the Lanc with the 2 Hurricanes – v nice!! Do you think I can find a pic of that!!?? Its somewhere I’m sure.

F2s did have concrete to act as ballast due to the foxhunter radar not being up to speed. 😡