No aerobatics by Red Arrows at Farnborough!
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No aerobatics by Red Arrows at Farnborough!
Post-Shoreham safety clampdown on flying displays not not just affecting private vintage jets and the smaller air shows, it seems....
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Well safety comes first, though it will not exactly be an inspiring show without aircraft showing off to their capability to both the public and trade visitors.
As trade days are a way to show off your wares to potential customers and get them on the first rung of becoming a client, it must be an uphill struggle if you cannot show them what your combat aicraft can do in real life when shown against its competitors.
The last Airshow I can think of when straight and level runs wowed the crowds must have been Kittyhawk 1903.
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As trade days are a way to show off your wares to potential customers and get them on the first rung of becoming a client, it must be an uphill struggle if you cannot show them what your combat aicraft can do in real life when shown against its competitors.
The last Airshow I can think of when straight and level runs wowed the crowds must have been Kittyhawk 1903.
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May as well disband them. The end of airshows in this Country.
As for your first point, forgive me if I sense a tone of, "well that's it then, may as well just give up" in your post. The Reds give a heck of a lot more than just Farnborough every two years.
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Similar to the Cambridgeshire F-111 that did a full reheat pass down the runway, except didn't go down well with the crowd that never saw it, nor the gliding fraternity that were up and about above their little airfield soaring.
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In which case, none of those events were flying displays at airshows ... they were just aircraft flying around somewhere else, which thereby absolves them from the Display restrictions. No?
Similar to the Cambridgeshire F-111 that did a full reheat pass down the runway, except didn't go down well with the crowd that never saw it, nor the gliding fraternity that were up and about above their little airfield soaring.
The F111 force had a bit of reputation for that sort of thing. I remember being in the crowd at a RAFA Woodford airshow in the 70s desperately looking for the F111 that had called 'field in sight'. We were of course all looking in the wrong direction, if we'd turned around we would have seen the interesting manoeuvres being conducted by the airliners on approach to Manchester airport whilst avoiding the F111 carrying out his display at Ringway rather than Woodford.
May we take it that the restrictions will apply to ALL aircraft at Farnboro, not only RAF?
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I remember that, that pilot was supposed to be one of the USAFs top reccy pilots ???. Further to that a friend of mine was sitting in an a/c going to Abu Dhabi and this so called TOP PILOT delayed all traffic at Manchester Airport.
I remember that, that pilot was supposed to be one of the USAFs top reccy pilots ???. Further to that a friend of mine was sitting in an a/c going to Abu Dhabi and this so called TOP PILOT delayed all traffic at Manchester Airport.