Leuchars Airshow
 

Anyone bringing a jet up.

I'll be stood next to mine (sorry, can't get out of the habit of calling it a jet) but its too small for a party. Please come and say hi.

Tonks :D :D

How will we know you - copy of The Independant under your arm and a red carnation in your lapel? Or bloodshot eyes, a bored expression and sore feet (hmm, that doesn't narrow it down much) :-)

We won't be there Tonks. Too busy winding ourselves up into a frenzy about the "Mother of All Cock-Ups" in the sands of Oman. Gosh, I can hardly wait to go and sleep with the scorpions. Much better than getting s**t-faced at the Leuchars air show.........apparently!

He'll be the one with ginger hair and a happy smile leering at the babes - and wearing ridiculous Turkish pyjamas or curtain material strides at the inevitable post air show thrash!!

Have fun, Tonks - I'll be on leave in Tchermany at the time!

Hey, Tonks!
I'll be there in spirit (comes from running the air and static display for a couple of years in the mid-90s), but I'll be at the Grand Nottinghamshire Autumn Festival (Newark Showground), pleasure flying, so there:-) So I'll be doing my 'small' bit for inter-civilian relationships, so to speak.
BBMF have said that they'll turn up, along with the YAK2001 display.........!!!!!

Make sure Bubbles Barnett doesn't sell you short on the 80#.

I'm sure your single-engined, non-ATPL earning ac will impress the locals enough for you not to worry about lodgings for the night........

[ 06 September 2001: Message edited by: EESDL ]

Some of us will be there for the weekend just before we disappear to that happy hunting ground in the desert (SSII) - lets hope the band on Saturday are ok! and the beer is even better!!

Chocks,

I won't be dressed quite as my old mate BEagle has suggested. I don't know, how hard is it to get rid of a reputation. The easiest way to spot me is to read my name badge as it has 'Tonks' on it. Oh an I will be stood with some of the students next to my plastic a/c.

BEagle, no looking at the women as Mrs Tonkenna will be about as well!! Oh and she believes that (not).

If there are any PPRUNErs there, come and say hi.

Tonks :D

Would have come and said 'Hi', but I suppose after today's events in US, the show will be cancelled.

According to the airshow website, Leuchars 2001 is still going ahead as planned.

Tonks,
I will probably pop past and say hi on Saturday unless you are being mobbed by gorgeous young girlies admiring your "plastic toy" :D

Oh how I long to be back on t' other side of the fence. It's just not the same when you have to pay for beer at an airshow. :rolleyes:

Lets just hope it doesn't pi$$ it down this year, otherwise the ANG KC-135 crew will be subject to some serious bribery again.

Toodle pip
TJFC

PS. Do you have any girlie studes that need to develop their PR skills? (That is what ours used to say on airshow weekend!)

[ 13 September 2001: Message edited by: The Jaguar Fan Club ]

Yep, its still on.

I have even got my new PPRUNE badge as well today. Thanks In_Fin for the quick reply.

Lets hope its a good day.

Tonks

Hi Tonks,

so how is the plastic toy? Would come up and say hello if I got the chance but...alas..have to work! :(

According to nice lass on BBC scotland it will be sunny spells with rain later. Gonna pee it down all day then :-)

Excellent interview with Leu Staish on local radio tonight - glad the show is still on, hope to meet some of you there tomorrow.

Rgds
BL

Well, another day, another Leuchars Airshow.

All I'll say is that the flying programme had noticeably larger gaps due to the USA contingent not being there. Not unexpected. Nice to see that most of the show managed to observe the mark of respect undertaken today.

Tonks, wandered round by your aircraft today....was gonna pop up and say hi, but it was at the time the VIP guest was doing his walkabout bit. Didn't want to disturb you while you were looking all smart with your hat on :D (Even Mr N dragged his out of hiding!! :D ) I have to say that the PPRuNe badge does not look at all out of place on flying suit name badges. Would be something that would take a lot of looking after at airshow parties etc with the inevitable drunken badge swapping/dunking!

I was shocked to see that they even let studes sit down at the airshow these days, while the QFI's do all the work.

Waiting in anticipation for your marks out of ten for the best party bus and best prank at the party(ies). ;)

Cheers
TJFC

Thanks to all the PPRuNers that came and said hi :) A good day I think, though I was in the hanger for most of it.

The bash afterwards was great, though I can't remeber a great deal about it and I was a bit sore today. The Dutch P3 crew where on top form, especially the Tango man (anyone there will know what I mean).

A bit of a shame that some of the a/c had to leave straight away, they missed a good night.

Jag Fan Club, Hi. We have to keep the students sat down or they may try and talk to the public! There where certainly a lot of senior officers about. We managed to get rid of our scruffier students before then. I even managed to keep my PPRUNE badge, though I have lost one other. Nicky, can I have it back please?

Oh, and hi to the AAC major I spoke to in the bar latter. Hope you lot enjoyed the rest of the party. I think you probably did :D

Another fine Leuchars, good displays and a good crowd. A shame the B1 didn't turn up (understandable) but no Migs or Eurofighter either.

Tonks - nice to meet you mate, the plastic toy plane was very shiny - do you make the studes lick it clean then, or what?

[ 17 September 2001: Message edited by: Chocks Wahay ]

Tonks

Myself and a few others sauntered past but you were obviously busy explaining the intricacies of your aircraft's fire control avionics to a fighter jock at the time. At least I assume that guy with the 735 badges on his flying suit was a pilot and not an anorak ;)

Oh, added to which, one of our number was a bit busy trying to negotiate an approach with one of the young female FLs on the ATC gliding stand at the time ;)

Catch you next time maybe.

Allegedly heard on the evening departures after the show

ASCOT 88* Holding for the light aircraft to depart ahead.

CHEEKY was reply from C-130 ahead :D
:D :D

[ 05 October 2001: Message edited by: Flipper. ]

Which of you reprobates ruined my 250yd drive of the 13th at Silverknowes golf course in Edinburgh by flying your new fangled Lancaster thingy down the EDI approach, along with a couple of light aircraft? B******s