Originally Posted by Evalu8ter
Makes you realise what "Combat Mass" we've lost. That F4 16-ship sent shivers down my spine. Maybe the retention of the T1 Typhoons may permit something similar in the future (but would we have the hours to work up such a formation nowadays?).
Depressing really.
I seem to recall there was a 16-ship Bucc formation the following year that operated out of Manston.
No hope of ever again putting up the amount of a/c seen for the 1990 BofB 50th Anniversary flypast......