Flip Posted July 22, 2008 Share Posted July 22, 2008 This Duxford place sounds good, might take the missus to it, she likes planes you see. Do they always have flying displays or do you have to go on one of their "airshow" days for that - is it normally static only? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SupraStar 3000 Posted July 22, 2008 Share Posted July 22, 2008 sometimes you get lucky and see a warbird fly but mostly its static. But if your into Warbirds go to the The flying legends shows. Trust me,.. its VERY good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dangerous brain Posted July 22, 2008 Author Share Posted July 22, 2008 Well looks like I luck in again soon. The middle wallop show is just up the road and the best of the rest are here for that. OK no f-16's but the REDS are here and more my cup of tea extensive helicopter displays http://www.wallop08.com/ its very viewable from the local area and they have onsite camping Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j_jza80 Posted July 23, 2008 Share Posted July 23, 2008 I flew down on Friday for this and it was an excellent day out. Chartered a private cessna from Elvington to Blackbushe and then flew home again after the show. Loads of really good displays, and as others have said, the Vulcan was without a doubt the star of the show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharpie Posted July 23, 2008 Share Posted July 23, 2008 WOW, I'd love to see the Vulcan fly. I have seen the SR71 at Evergreen (Oregon USA) and then found out there is one at Duxford too! lol http://www.sprucegoose.org/aircraft_artifacts/planes_general.html#observation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJI Posted July 23, 2008 Share Posted July 23, 2008 flying to an airshow and flying home again...... that's the way to do it... haha good effort. I'm a big fan of the Vulcan....check my garage pictures My grandad used to fly the Lancaster bomber in WWII. His plane was decommisioned 2 years after the war.... too many shrapnel repairs and it had done more than its fair share of flying hours. They really used to push these planes to the limit in war time.... and it shows the strength of English aircraft engineering where we lead the world at that time. He continued to work in the airforce after the war and in the early 1980's before he died I remember him talking about unmanned fighter aircraft..... so even way back then our own airforce was thinking about aircraft types that is only now been introduced by the world's airforces. IMO I would say that unmanned aircraft will be the only type of fighter plane to be seen in war situations in about 15 or so years time. (Maybe even sooner). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homer Posted July 23, 2008 Share Posted July 23, 2008 I flew down on Friday for this and it was an excellent day out. Chartered a private cessna from Elvington to Blackbushe and then flew home again after the show. Loads of really good displays, and as others have said, the Vulcan was without a doubt the star of the show. You chartered a plane to go to a show? Great pics, gutted to miss the Vulcan at both Fairford and now Farnborough, but still good to see some pics of it in action Just hope it's still available for next years shows. Would have liked to see the A380 too, only spotted one in the air so far over Reading, the size of the wings on those things make them look enormous in the air! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j_jza80 Posted July 23, 2008 Share Posted July 23, 2008 I'm lucky really as the pilot has been a friend of my Dads for quite a few years, so he sorted us out a good price. He was once a european stunt champion (try saying that without saying c*nt!) The airbus was enormous. Very manouverable too for such a big ship. My dad took a load of good pics on his SLR camera so i'll get some good pics posted up once I have them. Speaking of unmanned aircraft, this was on display on the northrop-grumman display stand. Looks like a mini B2! (please excuse the picture quality, all of these were taken on a Nokia N95!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJI Posted July 24, 2008 Share Posted July 24, 2008 nice pics..... yes, that 'little' thing and similar airplanes will be the future of air power. I guess in the future, airshows might just be a case of going to watch a load of robots flying around in the sky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SupraStar 3000 Posted July 24, 2008 Share Posted July 24, 2008 I'm not sure we will. Agreed, both armed and surveillance unmaned aircraft will play a major part in future warfare but ultimately it will always be a human that launches the weapons. Its been agreed by a ruling governing body (Geneva convention type people) that unmaned aircraft can NOT fire automatically and under certain circumstances like air to air combat a human's reactions and decisions will be needed instantaneously and not relayed across satellites to the other side of the world, viewed through tv screen. So I think in some cases we will always need human pilots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJI Posted July 24, 2008 Share Posted July 24, 2008 well, maybe not fired automatically... but from a control centre via satallite link. The airplane will identify threats and lock onto targets etc.... then the final 'fire' command will still be done by a human. I do think thay will also develop air-to-air UAV's that will carry weapons also.... again the final fire command to be done by some 'dude' in a control centre somewhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacko Posted July 24, 2008 Share Posted July 24, 2008 i went on the Sunday, really good day. Was gutted after the RIAT cancellation but this pretty much made up for it, even if there was quite the amount of hardware that you get at Fairford Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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