Andras Sobester
@ASobester
❤️✈️ Professor in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the University of Southampton
The last Boeing 727 ever built is still airworthy and has a very important job (clue in the livery!). In this video you can see the combination of a team of three awesome aviators + 75t of deliciously analogue trijet skim the North Sea at 150ft and 170mph. Many thanks to…
Confession. Last weekend marked a turning point in my aeronautical engineering career. I realised that the Rockwell B-1 Lancer is called “The Bone” because… “B-one”. 🤦♂️ (please tell me if this was news to you too, I will feel marginally less stupid).
A water salute to the Danish F-16 after its last UK display, brings the flying to a close at #RIAT25
It’s truly astounding to be able to see Rolls-Royce Tynes (1950s, Vickers Vanguard era design!!) still in operational service today (Breguet Atlantic)… #RIAT25
A little encore thrown in by @FrecceTricolori, as a patch of blue sky opened up just as they wrapped up their (low) display 🇮🇹 #RIAT25
Nice, tight show by the @rafredarrows in spite of the rapidly varying (different degrees of bad) conditions at #RIAT25
Somewhere inside that cloud there is a Finnish F-18C pulling 9Gs in its minimum radius turn demo #RIAT25
Everything around you is a blur when you fly an F-16! #RIAT25 (Polish air force)
And, at long last, here it is: the RAF’s new Boeing Wedgetail AEW Mk1 - introduced in style by the red Hawks of the RAFAT #RIAT25
“So just a simple dedication pass down the runway centreline to close things off, please” Frecce Tricolori solo pilot: “Say no more!” #RIAT25
Always an @airtattoo highlight, the RAF Chinook defying physics once again at RIAT25
🇮🇹🎵 All'alba vincerò… vincerò…. vincerò! 🎶 Rather amazingly, in spite of the… erm… variable conditions, a full display by the @FrecceTricolori at RIAT25 🇮🇹
Gentle drizzle ✅ Awesome @rafredarrows jets 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 ✅ Just about every imaginable weather in the forecast (Brize TAF) ✅ It must be Day 2 of RIAT25! 😎
If there is *any* moisture in the air, the leading edge root extension of the Hornet will find it #RIAT25
Such a joy having the much missed @RoyalNavy Black Cats back at RIAT25 🐈⬛ 🐈⬛
There are take-offs, flamboyant take-offs, very flamboyant take-offs… and then there is whatever this Finnish F-18C Hornet is doing 😳🔥
One of the stars of RIAT25 - the @VerticalAero VX4 - this Cotswold Airport to Fairford flight was the first ‘A to B’ flight of this crewed prototype!
