RAF Centenary Flypast

[VTRDark]

For those intrested there will be RAF 100 celebration flypast this Tuesday over London. It's going to be a big one. You never know they may get permission to fly one of the new F35's that's being commisioned as a suprise. The perfect opportunity to show them off in a publicity stunt to convince the nation that we need such expensive killing machines. We have just taken delivery on some at over a million pound each:

Britain Takes Delivery Of 10th F-35 Stealth Jet

And there's more to come....

Britain to purchase 138 F-35’s

Oh well it could be worse, we could have a show of might with a military parade of nuclear missiles on the back of flatbed trucks.



On 10th July 2018, up to 100 RAF aircraft will perform a flypast on an epic scale over Central London to mark the centrepiece of the Royal Air Force’s 100th-anniversary celebrations. The planned events mark 100 days since the 1st April anniversary of the formation of the Royal Air Force

The Royal Air Force will mark its centenary year by showcasing up to 100 jets, helicopters and aeroplanes from a range of different eras, including Spitfires and modern state-of-the-art aircraft. It promises to be a spectacle never seen before and one that won’t be seen again for a very long time.

• What's the order of events?

Ahead of the flypast itself, there will be a parade of 1,000+ Royal Air Force personnel and another 300 lining the route. That starts at 11.25am and will march up Horse Guards Road and The Mall towards the Palace.

• Which aircraft will take part?

The Royal Air Force has released an iconic list of all the aircraft expected to feature - though it has warned that all participation is subject to weather, aircraft serviceability and operational commitments. The mass display will feature the following:

• Puma HC2’s - advanced medium-sized, medium lift transport helicopter

• Chinook - the twin-rotor heavy lift helicopter

• Juno - new training helicopter which has replaced the Squirrel

• Jupiter - new advanced training helicopter which has replaced the Griffin

• Dakota - one of the world's most famous military transport aircraft and saw widespread use by the Allies during World War Two

• Lancaster - the iconic Bomber Command veteran aircraft; one of only 2 airworthy Lancaster’s in the world

• Spitfire - If any object deserves the overused accolade of 'iconic' it is surely the Supermarine Spitfire. It combined speed and manoeuvrability with a unique capacity for development, and was in service from the first to the last day of the Second World War

• Hurricane - best known as the true star of the "Battle of Britain" engulfing Europe during the summer of 1940

• Prefect - a two-seated training and aerobatic low-wing aircraft

• Tucano T1 - RAF’s long-serving basic fast jet flying training aircraft

• Shadow R1 - the RAF’s advanced intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition and reconnaissance aircraft

• A400M Atlas - provides tactical airlift and strategic oversize lift capabilities

• C17 Globemaster - military transport vehicle capable of carrying payloads up to 169,000lb (76,657kg).

• Sentinel - an airborne battlefield and ground surveillance aircraft

• Voyager - the state-of-the-art air-to-air refuelling and global passenger transport aircraft

• E-3D Sentry - an airborne early warning (AEW) and command and control aircraft.

• Hawk - The RAF’s advanced fast jet pilot training aircraft

• Tornado GR4 - The UK’s primary ground attack platform and also fulfils an important reconnaissance role.

• Typhoon - A highly agile aircraft, designed to be a supremely effective dogfighter in combat and quick reaction capabilities.

• Red Arrows - The Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team, the Red Arrows, is one of the world's premier aerobatic display teams

• Lightning – The first opportunity for the general public to see the RAF’s next generation aircraft, the Lightning (to be confirmed).

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26 Typhoons launching to practice for the RAF 100 celebration flypast.

[Wicky]

Yup I'll be hopefully catching a view when they come from Ipswich via Colchester on the way up to London.

Are you sure on that cost per F-35 plane should be closer to a million squid x100 each.

[VTRDark]

Yikes yes your right, more like a hundred million per a plane. That is a staggering amount of money especially when you times that by the number of planes being purchased. Then there is everything else that goes with them. And folk wonder why the NHS and the rest of the country is in such a state.

Putting the deaths and morality asside it wouldn't be so bad if we had some sort of reasnable return on the costs of going to war. Mostly wars are created to bully and overpower another country and wipe out it's industries so the bullies can then go and build their own industries there to put that country into debt by feeding money into the countries new industies owned by guess who. Britain doesn't have many industries left, Arms are probably our biggest industry but I'm not sure we even have that anymore if were having to purchase planes from the US. Our MP's are making some money for themsleves though. Look how the war criminal Tony Blair got shares in oil and other stuff in Irag. That's money stolen from us to pay for a war and money earned through warfare that we the people should be getting some returns on not MP's personally. That man should be hung for treason against the people and for starting an illegal war. Both him and Bush should be hung.

If it's all spend spend spend where do we make make make or is it simply down to us the people to keep feeding the pot in tax, fines and whatever other inventive ways the gov can come up with. What returns are we personally seeing for what we give. How messed up is that.