Queens Birthday Flypast Wattisham '92
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Queens Birthday Flypast Wattisham '92
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Queens Birthday Flypast 16x Phantom FGR2 RAF Wattisham
Queens Birthday Flypast 16x Phantom FGR2 RAF Wattisham
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Bit harsh NR.
Thanks for posting - I enjoyed most of it.
There are loads of films of displays out there, but this one takes a bit of time to show the other side of it - interesting to see an AVM getting some hands-on (AVM Johns?). Would he have been with a Nav or was it a twin-sticker? Often wondered how the chap in the back felt when the Staish or above decided to take a trip.
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Thanks for posting - I enjoyed most of it.
There are loads of films of displays out there, but this one takes a bit of time to show the other side of it - interesting to see an AVM getting some hands-on (AVM Johns?). Would he have been with a Nav or was it a twin-sticker? Often wondered how the chap in the back felt when the Staish or above decided to take a trip.
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Today I had a day off, so I watched the lot. The 4 x 4 was good, then the Diamond 16 was really impressive. It was just a shame there was no air-to-air footage. The Air Commodore's QFI 'Minder' deserves a special award!
Today I had a day off, so I watched the lot. The 4 x 4 was good, then the Diamond 16 was really impressive. It was just a shame there was no air-to-air footage. The Air Commodore's QFI 'Minder' deserves a special award!
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Thanks for the post
Brings back memories visiting Needham Market sitting eating sarnies at lunchbreak on the North west perimeter road of the field in the early 90s before the F4s went
Got more than i bargained for one day after what i believe was a turbine exploded as it lifted off showering bits of the on base golf course and runway with various ejected burning remnants and burning fuel as it climbed into the low cloud base still streaming burning fuel. Lots of bemused players as the base fire trucks rolled into action. Seemed an age before the F4 came back around the circuit out of the clouds and made an emergency landing from the East on the badly running second engine into the arrestor. I swear the crew out in under 5 seconds of stopping
Never made the local news though
These days it would have been on youtube in seconds
Brings back memories visiting Needham Market sitting eating sarnies at lunchbreak on the North west perimeter road of the field in the early 90s before the F4s went
Got more than i bargained for one day after what i believe was a turbine exploded as it lifted off showering bits of the on base golf course and runway with various ejected burning remnants and burning fuel as it climbed into the low cloud base still streaming burning fuel. Lots of bemused players as the base fire trucks rolled into action. Seemed an age before the F4 came back around the circuit out of the clouds and made an emergency landing from the East on the badly running second engine into the arrestor. I swear the crew out in under 5 seconds of stopping
Never made the local news though
These days it would have been on youtube in seconds
Both videos provide an excellent insight into the last days of the 'real' RAF....
We were so fortunate. In my opinion, it began its death spiral in 1994 and will never recover.
We were so fortunate. In my opinion, it began its death spiral in 1994 and will never recover.
