Seen at the airshow today

[Caveman]

Well ok, not today but this weekend just passed was the Royal International Air Tattoo.

These are some of what I saw









full set here

https://www.flickr.com/photos/wcave/sets/72157645764786833/

[Captain Canada]

Nice !

I'd love to see those F-5s display....love that aeroplane !

[TomZ]

One of my RIAT pictures.



I'll post some more when I've sorted them out

TomZ

[PR19_Kit]

Looks to be a bit of an Air Traffic issue with those Alpha Jets! 

[Caveman]

Spent a happy Sunday at Old Warden watching the Shuttleworth Collection's finest.

Buchon

Kite

Comet

Full set here

https://www.flickr.com/photos/wcave/sets/72157650039273463/

Thanks for looking

(now with working link...)

[PR19_Kit]

Wonderful stuff.  

Did they aerotow or winch launch the Kite?

Ah, it was a DOUBLE aerotow! I just found the pic on your Flickr page.

[Captain Canada]

What a great looking show ! The sky looked awesome for an atmospheric photo shoot....great job. I'm pretty sure Nick drove me past the plce on our way from London to Waddington.

 

[kerick]

I haven't been to a good airshow in so long! Shame on me!

[Caveman]

My first business trip to RIAT (long may that continue! ) They are marking BoB 75 and I got to see 16 spitfires, hurricanes and 109s in the air at once!

Unfortunately I failed to plan and thus achieved P.P.P. due to my camera batteries dying juts prior to the Reds display...  This is a taster of the best of what I managed







Full set here

https://www.flickr.com/photos/wcave/sets/72157655583846049

[PR19_Kit]

Good stuff Caveman, I was there too. Did you get wet as well?

I DID remember new batteries, and used my short lens on one camera and the long lens (300 mm) on the other. But the result is I now have over 250 pics to edit! 

All my pics of the flying Osprey froze the rotors/props dead, so it looks really odd, I may have to Photoshop some 'blur' onto them later.



My two 'stars' were the total madman flying the Atlas, it's almost INVERTED in the pic below, and the P-1. It STILL looks like a sawn-off DC8 with a MAD sting to me. 

More pics later.

[JayBee]

the P-1. It STILL looks like a sawn-off DC8 with a MAD sting to me. 

Don't be silly Kit, the taper on that fin is more like a Boeing, but then the nose does look like a Douglas design.   

[kitbasher]

the P-1. It STILL looks like a sawn-off DC8 with a MAD sting to me. 

Don't be silly Kit, the taper on that fin is more like a Boeing, but then the nose does look like a Douglas design.   

Nope, I'm with Kit on this one.  Deffo an adolescent DC-8.

[PR19_Kit]

They had the 2nd P-1 parked right alongside a P-8 Poseidon, and they're about the same size, so  why does the P-1 need FOUR of the same CFM-56 engines?

Another P-1 funny, when I first saw it the crew had just arrived and they assembled a tow bar for it, as below. Note the main entrance door is closed.



Shortly afterward one of them reached into a landing gear door and the air-stair slid out from under the door and unfolded itself to the ground. The crew climbed up the stairs and went to open the door, but it wouldn't comply. 



All in all four of them had a go and it STILL wouldn't open, and I never did see it open so the standing joke of the day was to wonder if they'd found the key every time we saw a P-1 crewman. 

[kitnut617]

They had the 2nd P-1 parked right alongside a P-8 Poseidon, and they're about the same size, so  why does the P-1 need FOUR of the same CFM-56 engines?

Well that's because they're not the same engines Kit, P-8 uses two 27,000 lbt CFM-56-7B's, while the P-1 uses four IHI Corporation F7 13,000 lbt engines, similar in size to what the CF-34-8E's that the Embraer 170 uses

[PR19_Kit]

Someone there was telling me porkies then! They said the P-1 had CFM-56s, and they certainly looked very similar.