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A rather sparse list of participants has appeared on the Farnborough International website (a site which must win a prize for being one of the most hideous sites to look at and unfriendly ones to navigate; it assaults the ears too, so you may want to turn the sound down before visiting http://www.farnborough.com/airshow-2012). The list is currently the same for the trade show as for the public days, which may yet turn out to be an error especially given that several items in the flying display I wouldn't normally expect to see at the trade show. The list is as follows:
Static:
Breitling Super Constellation
C-130J
Plane Sailing Catalina
Virgin Galactic Space Ship 2
Flying:
F/A-18 Hornet
Breitling Jet Team
Breitling Wingwalkers
Redhawks [2 x Fournier RF-4]
Red Arrows
Battle of Britain Memorial Flight
Saab Gripen
ROKAF T-50 (singleton display by Black Eagles aircraft)
Blades [4 x Extra 330s]
V-22 Osprey
Vulcan
Yak-130
Mark Jefferies [1 x Extra 330]
There are no items listed yet for the Business Aircraft Park, which will operate Monday 9-Wednesday 11 July only; and, yes, there are only four items listed (so far) for the static display.
No mention of the Russian Knights on the Farnborough website. In fact, no mention of any 2012 participants at all: the earlier list has been taken down and replaced by a list of aircraft participating in 2010.
B52 FLYPAST (Tues only)
BOEING F/A18 SUPER HORNET
IRKUT YAK-130
RUAG AVIATION DORNIER 228
RUSSIAN KNIGHT’S SUKHOI Su-27
SAAB GRIPEN FIGHTER
SOUTH KOREAN AIR FORCE T-50 JET TRAINER
TEKEVER AR4 LIGHT RAY (UAS))
THE BLADES
UNIVERSAL TARGET SYSTEMS LTD VIGILANT
US DOD F/A18 SUPER HORNET
US MARINE CORPS V-22 OSPREY
FLYING DISPLAY
(Fri 13 - Sun 15 July) Public Days
AAC APACHE HELICOPTER
AVRO VULCAN XH558
BATTLE OF BRITAIN MEMORIAL FLIGHT (Not Fri)
BOEING F/A18 SUPER HORNET
BREITLING JET TEAM (Not Fri)
BREITLING WINGWALKERS (Not Fri)
IRKUT YAK-130
MARK JEFFERIES EXTRA 330
RAF RED ARROWS
RAF TORNADO (Roll demo, not Friday)
RAF TYPHOON
RAF KING AIR
RAF TUCANO (Not Fri)
RAF FALCONS
REDHAWKS (Not Fri)
RUAG AVIATION DORNIER 228
RUSSIAN KNIGHT’S SUKHOI Su-27
SOUTH KOREAN AIR FORCE T-50 JET TRAINER
THE BLADES
US DOD F/A18 SUPER HORNET
US MARINE CORPS V-22 OSPREY
Scramble airfield guide available for members at http://www.scramble.nl/databases/airpor ... portid=497. Spots 2 and 3 will be enthusisastically patrolled by private security companies and so will for all intents and purposes be unavailable. Also note there will be no parking at spot 1, although visitors are normally able be able to park around 500m away in a clearing between Fleet Road and Laffans Road which is traditionally used by lorry drivers as an informal rest stop. However the land surrounding the airfield is owned by the Ministry of Defence, so I have no confirmation this will be available this year. Local spotters sites (http://www.farnboroughspotters.com/ and http://homepage.ntlworld.com/tony.stevenson1/) have further details of viewing opportunities and restrictions.
Thijs wrote:I think more people will prefer this information....so why not share it here? That's the purpose of a forum isn't it!?
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Thijs,
Ofcourse you are absolutely right. But as Linerman has mentioned, scramble has a very good airfield guide on
Farnborough where "more people" can check.
In regard to Falcon, he lives just around the corner from me and I was thinking of a more personal approach.
Boeing plans to fly the 787 Dreamliner in the daily aerial displays at the Farnborough Air Show near London in July 2012. Here the plane is on display at Everret Paine Field, Washington, this past April.
Boeing photoSEATTLE - Breaking with its longstanding practice, Boeing will fly the 787 Dreamliner in the daily aerial displays at the Farnborough Air Show near London next month.
The jet-maker's policy in recent years has been to fly in its commercial airliners and leave them parked on the ground at air shows. Boeing's military jet fighters are the only planes it sends up for display flying.
Airbus, in contrast, provides an awesome display each day at the world's big air shows, sending up its massive A380 double-decker jet for low and slow fly-bys.
Boeing executives have justified their stance by saying they consider it a risk not worth taking to make an airliner fly atypically with large crowds underneath.
At the last Farnborough Air Show two years ago, after the 787 made its first appearance there, Tom Enders, then chief executive of Airbus and now head of parent company EADS, praised the plane after touring it on the ground, but added a stinging comment:
"They bring new planes and park them," Enders said in an interview. "We bring new planes and fly them."
Airbus has maintained its flamboyant approach to air-show flying despite a deadly 1988 accident during a display for a small French flying club. An Air France Airbus A320 making a low-level fly-by crashed into trees at the end of the runway, killing three of the 136 people on board.
The last Boeing commercial jet to participate in the flying display at Farnborough was in 1984, when its then-new 737-300 made its debut.
That same year at Farnborough, a small cargo plane crashed during the afternoon display and burst into flames. The two people aboard escaped uninjured.
A Boeing spokesman would not confirm the company's intentions at Farnborough this year, but people with knowledge of the plan said it will fly a Qatar Airways Dreamliner.
Boeing famously benefited from a memorable flying stunt with its first jet airliner, though that instance was decidedly unauthorized.
In the summer of 1955, chief test pilot Tex Johnston did a 360-degree rotation barrel roll in a prototype 707 over Lake Washington, then came back over the hydroplane race crowd and did it again.
That unexpected maneuver scared Boeing's president, Bill Allen, who gave Johnston a severe verbal reprimand. But it made Boeing's reputation in the new era of jets and helped sell the 707 better than any salesman's pitch.
In Farnborough this year, chief 787 test pilot Randy Neville will take the Dreamliner up for its aerial routine.
Neville was formerly chief Boeing pilot on the F-22 Raptor, the Air Force's most advanced jet fighter. In December 2009, he was co-pilot on the first flight of the Dreamliner.
Boeing's intent to fly the 787 at Farnborough was first reported Monday by The Wall Street Journal.
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