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in London for the weekend, and just by chance seen the wonderful sight (and sound) of the Lanc flying over Westminster Abbey, where there's a Battle of Britain thanksgiving service today.

I don't believe so, I think they're heading home after RIAT this weekend.

It was indeed the ROKAF Black Eagles

I wasn't aware of this either, thanks for sharing! The Valiant only had a fairly short service life after cracks were found in the wing spars of them. There's now only one intact one left anywhere in the world, in the RAF Museum at Cosford. As a side note, the Valiant was the only V-Bomber to...

It really did - only 11 years seperated the first flight of an Avro Lancaster from the first flight of an Avro Vulcan.

https://vulcantothesky.org/news/a-statement-from-the-vulcan-to-the-sky-trust/ Very sad news - were it not for his hard work, XH558 would probably never have returned to flight.

The Draken is one of the loudest planes, especially by fighter standards, I've ever heard. I believe it was the first supersonic aircraft to come into service anywhere in Europe.

BBC News - Chuck Yeager: First pilot to fly supersonic dies aged 97 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-55225903 RIP

Thanks, will definitely be tuning in.

Every Saturday at 11am, the Planes TV YouTube does an airshow livestream from their archives. Sometimes it's a full show broadcast (a couple of months ago, they did an 8 hour stream of the whole 2014 Waddington show, for example), sometimes it's a retrospective across a number of shows over the...

https://www.youtube.com/user/LiveAirShowTV/videos For those experiencing airshow withdrawal this year, this could help - today, tomorrow and Thursday the above YouTube channel are doing a "Socially Distant Airshow", which I'd never even heard of until 10 mins ago. What this means is that...

There was one at RIAT, albeit for two very brief passes. I saw one do a full display at Farnborough in 2016 - very impressive.

Thanks, wasn't aware of this. [emoji106]

They used one of those as the chase plane for the SpaceX Dragon capsule splashdown today.

Interesting reports in the last few days of F117 Nighthawks being spotted in the air over Nevada. Officially, the Nighthawks were grounded and retired in 2008, but at least some seem to still be active in some capacity.

Ah yes, the Argosy. Typical RAF humour with the name, I believe the version without the radome on the nose was known as the Whistling Wheelbarrow.

https://twitter.com/AncientSubHunt/status/1071053159156592640?s=19

Random bounce, but has anyone ever been to the Cold War Jets fast taxi day at Bruntingthorpe? My partner and I are thinking of going (its next Sunday), and on paper the idea of watching and hearing Lightnings, a Buccaneer, Victor, Canberra, Nimrod, Comet, VC10, Delfin, JP and Hunter doing their...

I saw this on Twitter, and thought it was worth posting here. Yesterday was the 35th anniversary of Sir Douglas Bader's death, and this anecdote about him was printed in The Times: