I've been to the RIAT three times. The first time was in 2001, as a small boy. My dad forked out for a very memorable experience, a helicopter to fly us to the airfield. He passed a few months ago, so this reminded me of him. Glad to see RIAT is still alive and well!
Supercap the board says its a Mk16 not a Mk14, you misread your Roman numerals! Mk16 is a Mk9 with a Packard built Merlin engine, your right that the Mk14 had a Griffon engine and it used late Mk8/early Mk9 bodies.
Ha, I bumped right into you all, saw the shirt and recognized Cap. Hope I made you all feel a bit like celebrities there by taking a selfie with you guys :) It was a fine day to see some aircraft!
@GrimReapers @SuperCap can you make a Video just looking around the Zhukovski airport near Moscow on Google Maps? You can see the rarest Russian planes there standing out in the open like the MIG 1.44 and SU 47 just taking on rust its insane.
Great video thank you for the effort. That is quite an amazing static display lineup. Being in the UK is likely one of the best spots, as you get UK/US/Europe all in one place. Not too many Swedish jets at US airshows. 💙
Need to save the flight hours on the old Swedish jets, so can't really waste it on long ferry flights : / So it's just gonna be the JAS39 Gripens in the US unless something absolutely special happens
Was a great weekend, 8 1/2 hour flying displays Saturday and Sunday plus a great static line up. Highlight for me was the F35 ‘hover’ what a machine, but made me miss the Harrier!
Hi Cap, At 1:06 that looks like a ECM pod (note the small intake underneath to cool the electronics and the yellow warning triangles. I've only ever seen those on Tornado ECM pods) and this picture confirms that en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurofighter_Typhoon#/media/File:DASS_by_numbers.png At 7:55 that is a Sniper XR targeting pod fitted to the F-16 and the Spitfire just after is actually a Mark 16 not a 14 (XVIe not XIVe) and does indeed have a Merlin engine fitted. This from Wiki "The Mk XVI was the same as the Mk IX in nearly all respects except for the engine, a Merlin 266. The Merlin 266 was the Merlin 66 and was built under licence in the USA by the Packard Motor Company. The "2" was added as a prefix in order to avoid confusion with the engines, as they required different tooling." The little aircraft squeezed between the Osprey and Bird dog at 11:10 is the O-2 Skymaster, which you probably realised once you read the description! I think I need to get out more.... :)
2:02 That's the type of chopper which the mad-CAP Marine Crew Chief/Door-Gunner in Full Metal Jacket made his much quoted speech......"'Ain't war Hell‼️❓️❓️"
Lmao, if you actually knew anything, you'd know the coloured band around each section of a missle tells you its "Status" "live,dummy, if it contains propelent and so on....
If you want translations of the Swedish aircraft, here goes: Lansen: The Lance. Draken: Word means both The Dragon and The Kite, but in this case, it's The Kite, which is obvious if you look at the wing shape. Viggen: Thunderbolt or a small species of duck. One might think it's thunderbolt, but it's actually the duck, because of the canard wing and the agility of the aircraft. Gripen. The Gryphon. Not shown here, but we also have Tunnan, "The Barrel", which is obvious from the shape.
Yes - I think he read the Roman numerals XVI backward. LF refers to low-altitude, which means the (US built Packard Merlin) engine is optimized for lower altitude. Many of the LFs had clipped wings, which from this video don'l look present, but we really don't get a clear view. The lower-case e refers to armament fitted in the wings, a Browning .50-cal inboard and a 20-mil Hispano-Suiza outboard in each wing.
10:00 That’s one of our old Sentinal ASTOR aircraft - they’ve been parked up at Waddington for months now since retiring from service, and gradually being flown over to the USAF for reasons unknown. This is why it’s got the N registration on the engine pod instead of its old RAF one.
I'm sure someone has pointed it out but that Spitfire at 8:20 is a Mk *16* (XVI) - not a Mk 14 (XIV) as you said...I think you just got your roman numerals mixed up a bit on the day because the board says it's a "Spitfire LFXVIe", i.e. Mk 16 (LF for "low altitude fighter", and with the "e" type wing configuration).
Haven't seen anyone call it out yet. The small aircraft at 11:10 (right before the O-1E Bird Dog) is an O-2A Super Skymaster; a follow-on to the Bird Dog. Based on the Cessna 337 Skymaster. EDIT: Just saw that James Harris beat me to it.
I went to the RIAT with cadets to help out in welcoming and gate security and got my RIAT 2022 Team cap signed by the Black Eagles, it was an amazing experience despite the blazing heat and I was always looking out for you but never found you :/ I’ve rewatched this video like 3 times already to see if I’m in it somewhere 🤣🤣
Cap should apply to be taken on a ride along in a jet! His channel has no doubt inspired many people to join the Air Force! So the air force could return the favor?
Extremely rare and yet in US we don't and will not see a fighter from another country. Very disappointed as Allies I would very much like to see it. Static or not. It would be great to see 😃
It's funny the U2 in final form with all the updated refit has about 7mph between its stall speed and VNE at operational altitude. My raw data is outdated but afaik many of the NATO Europe F16s are basically updated Bl15MLU brought to Bl50/52 standard but still the original airframes, the exception being Turkey who license produced Bl50 so are obviously in a position to update airframes easily, correct me if I'm wrong but that was my belief. Whether the airframe itself is an older production series I don't think affects their operational capabilities very much, afaik they're all Bl50/52 with some Bl60 in terms of equivalence. It's very different from a period F-16A which has analogue FCS, an older radar and fire control set, etc. It's basically AIM-9P and that's it for the F-16A in original condition as a fighter, you even needed avionics changes to use the navy's AIM-9L (the P was the air force's AIM-9, the two on different development paths). For all intents and purposes European F-16As are by now all very much as an F-16C instead.
"Book about Wessex in the Falklands...." might that be "Scram!" by Harry Benson by any chance? I have that too, to be read, but its a huge hardback a bit too cumbersome to bring on commutes :P
Cap that spit was actually a MK16, XVI is 16, XIV is 14. The reason why its not a MKIX and a MKXVI is the Packard merlin inside it instead of a RR Merlin
The Cessna SkyMaster parked beside the Cessna Birddog was used as a birddog in Vietnam, the 02 was mostly used in Korea and at the start of the Vietnam war.
Cap if that thing came in through your front window I doubt that you would have the time to not appreciate it. Unless you got lucky and it flew out of your rear window? 😂
That's awesome, but I wager that the upcoming one for exercise pitch black in my hometown of Darwin Australia will rival if not beat that, as we will also have F22's, Sukoi's and more.
I'm not sure it can be called the best ever. 2007 had the USAF 60th anniversary and 25 years of the Tornado. The static display alone had F-4s, F-5s, F-16s, Mirage 2000, Alpha Jet, Super Etendard, Indian Flankers, IL-76, Hawker Hunter, A-7E, Tornado F3, GR4, ECR, IDS, Typhoon F2, JAS-39, Nimrod MR2A, E-3D, Harrier GR7, EAV-8B, VC-10, B-1B, B-52H, F-117A, A-10A, F-15E, KC-135R, C-130, MC-130, KC-10, E-6B, C-17A, C-5B, P-3C, Jaguar T2. Never mind the flying displays and the historic aircraft. Modern air shows have less and less variety as more types are retired from service.
I actually filmed the F-15E/P-51 display with what was then a state of the art camera . . . ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-NkDRlGw5o0g.html
Appreciate the effort of putting this together. Love seein those planes. One question though, they sure don't let ya too close to those static A/C-is that normal for this show? With few exceptions, that's not how they do it here in the U.S. At least in my experience.
@@grimreapers2 they were used in Vietnam as sort of spotter and radio control planes. You see one in the film Apocalypse Now and it directs a napalm strike
