Air Tattoo Photos

solarsailor · 16th July 2018, 11:18

A selection of pics from my trip to RAF Fairford yesterday. It was an absolute scorcher, which was a pleasant change from last year's trip when it was heavily overcast all day with the occasional shower thrown in for good measure - which meant 'flat' routines for most aircraft and others that couldn't display at all. No such problems this time though, with over eight and a half hours of unrestricted flying.

Avulon · 16th July 2018, 17:40

some great shots you captured there!

planenut · 16th July 2018, 18:04

Nice set of pics, thanks for sharing. I just got back this evening.

There were some star moments and items in the show, but sadly, the long awaited large formation of Typhoons was abandoned as the largest shower/storm we had was battering Swindon on Friday and we got some of the residue. Still we got a diamond nine ship instead. Luckily no incidents.

trebor · 16th July 2018, 19:57

9 Typhoons all at once , have you not gone deaf !

planenut · 16th July 2018, 20:12

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Originally Posted by trebor

9 Typhoons all at once , have you not gone deaf !

I wear ear protectors and have done for years - we did have a lot of hardware this year.

solarsailor · 16th July 2018, 20:41

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Originally Posted by trebor

9 Typhoons all at once , have you not gone deaf !

9 Typhoons cruising over in formation make less noise than a single F-35 with its afterburner lit up. In fact it's the loudest fighter I've heard since the days of the EE Lightning and the F4 Phantom.

trikey · 16th July 2018, 20:47

Superb pics, thanks for sharing them.

planenut · 17th July 2018, 15:08

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Originally Posted by solarsailor

Here's one just for you then......

Only on static display unfortunately, it would have been nice to see it in the air.

Luckily caught it flying out yesterday, amongst the other two hundred and twenty-six that I saw go out.

Bogbrush82 · 18th July 2018, 17:22

The C-47 flew over my house a couple of days ago before doing a 180 and doubling back - think it was heading to Wolverhampton Airport.

Sounded good.

Astraeus · 19th July 2018, 14:21

I was there on Friday in the viewing village courtesy of my parents

Some utterly awesome flying and aircraft.

This made me chuckle ...a Jaguar TF done up like a WW2 fighter complete with rivets.....
Think Wendy would draw the line at that:duh

image by Christopher Roy, on Flickr

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planenut Regional Secretary Rover 1.8T Tourer Join Date: May 2007 Location: Heathrow Posts: 6,944 Thanks: 1,551 Thanked 2,036 Times in 1,264 Posts	Nice set of pics, thanks for sharing. I just got back this evening. There were some star moments and items in the show, but sadly, the long awaited large formation of Typhoons was abandoned as the largest shower/storm we had was battering Swindon on Friday and we got some of the residue. Still we got a diamond nine ship instead. Luckily no incidents.

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Astraeus Regional Secretary North Scotland MG ZS Exclusive 1.0T Auto 2022 Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Tayport Posts: 5,754 Thanks: 1,676 Thanked 1,855 Times in 1,058 Posts	Friday I was there on Friday in the viewing village courtesy of my parents Some utterly awesome flying and aircraft. This made me chuckle ...a Jaguar TF done up like a WW2 fighter complete with rivets..... Think Wendy would draw the line at that:duh image by Christopher Roy, on Flickr Last edited by Astraeus; 19th July 2018 at 14:30..

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