Do the Dutch not throw their planes around at RIAT anymore (haven’t been in years)? Has the HSE caught up with them?
That Troopship display was one of the best I’ve ever seen. Kon Marine were at it too… I’ll always remember queueing in the traffic jam one year and seeing a Dutch P-3 right above us, standing on it’s wing as it went ’round the corner’ – happy days…
The Dutch display the F-16 and the AH-64 these days, the PC7 trainer having been dropped. When the F27 was retired in 1994, the replacement Fokker 50/60 was never displayed unfortunately. I really don’t know what effect the HSE would have on air displays? :rolleyes: The Navy did display the P-3 and P-2 and Atlantic prior, but never to the extremes of the Troopship which set new standards in large aeroplane chuckability.
Even that display is overshadowed these days by the Italian C-27 (updated G222) that loops, rolls, derrys and knife edges like a fighter.
It also brings to mind Maj “Bertie” Bertelson, RDAF, who used to do similar things with the RDAF C-130!
A Danish C-130 display?! Never heard of that, though the Swedes certainly threw one a round with gusto…
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