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The RAF provided its ground attack force display of Harrier and Tornado GR3, while the US Air Force provided a couple of big birds, with impressive take-offs and fly-bys (albeit a bit too high and brief for the crowd’s liking) of a B-52H and B1-B Lancer.

 
RAF Tornado low pass and B-1B Lancer taxiing for take-off

    
RAF Harrier at the hover and a B52H heavy on final approach

The display programme also had a number of notable items which weren’t excessively noisy. A final appearance was made by RAF EE Canberra PR9’s, representing the withdrawal from service of this type. A tribute flyby in the vein of the USAFs ‘Heritage Flight’ was performed by the USAF demonstration team’s F15C Eagle with Duxford-based P-51D Mustang ‘Twilight Tear’. Warbirds were also represented by the RAF Memorial Flight, the Lancaster always making an impressive sight.

 
USAF F15C Eagle flyby

USAF Heritage Flight Flypast

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