RIAT 2023 DEPATURES DAY

The final and by far the best day of the worlds biggest military Air show, departure day. For the high lights being able to capture what is most likely the final time, ill be to see a SU-22 Fitter fly. The Greek F4 Phantom II was as always awesome to see as we are very luckily that some of the final operators are in Europe. Seeing the Meteor fly was also for me a big tick off the list of things and of course the ME262 (even if its a replica) never thought I'd see these fly from the airfield on the same day in 2023. The Romanian AF AN26 (which did by the way have a bird strike on departure so, look out for that on rotation next two the right hand engine) was also nice to see since it'll almost certainly be the last time we see Curl from them. The Metrea 135 had a fantastic livery on it, I also caught the CH53 finally well as it came my way thank god. Good to see Hunter ZZ190 this time, as it was the only one I hadn't got yet. The Weather bird Herc was certainly rare thing to see, infact lots of nice C130's I saw. Another thing we are unlikely to see again anytime soon the Italian AMX's as they are being phased out next year, so good to see the yellow single seater. The Italian Tornado's and especially the rare Harrier's including that lovely twinstick one were also just awesome to see, the Saab Globaleye and Italian G550 AEW were interesting sights to see, finally the SK60's especially the anniversary livery one.
Anyway hope, you enjoy I've still got a vid of 2022 RIAT to do that'll probably be like two hours long and the one from this year and Duxford this year which I'm planning to do this year as well. So look out for those in the meantime enjoy this awesome compilation of movements from Fairford.

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Nice👍 You got some departures we didn't see at East P&V as they didn't roll / join right to the end of 27 for take-off. The Lakenheath F-35A did the star departure for me with straight climb to the 9,000ft ceiling allowed.

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Cheers, yeah that's the reason I don't bother with east when their on 27, I get the close up rolling burner shots but, for me I like to get aircraft in the air as that is kinda the point with them, to fly. They were very loud, photographed them instead as I focused on the Norwegian 35's.

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HI i want to go to riat where were you seating?

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Western end viewing inclosure for the departures