The Royal Air Force is sending its award-winning fighter display over to the International Sanicole Airshow, painted in a very special historic scheme that bears special significance to the liberation of Belgium and the Netherlands and is therefore a terrific addition to our flying display: The Typhoon solo display.
This year's team from 29 Squadron, based at RAF Coningsby, comprises of specialists from every aircraft trade who work together to bring you this dazzling spectacle. The display is flown by Flt David “Turbo” Turnbull from Cambridgeshire in England. He joined the RAF in 2010 and has been flying the Typhoon since 2018. He has fully mastered the aircraft to show off its enormous thrust produced by the two afterburning Euroject EJ200 engines. During his demonstration, he will also show off the Typhoon’s exceptional agility with a series of max performance turns and loaded rolls, with forces up to nine times the force of gravity. The Typhoon was developed by the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy and Spain, but has seen significant export success thanks to its great capabilities in all weather, day and night, performing for a wide range of missions.
The aircraft wears a special commemorative scheme, in honour of a Second World War Hawker Typhoon, a powerful fighter-bomber that was instrumental in the liberation of the low countries and played a key role during the liberation of the port of Antwerp and the Scheldt estuary, for example. Sporting the letters FM-G. FM was the lettering of 257 Sqn RAF, and the last aircraft wearing FM-G was flown by Sqn Denzil Jenkins. The display crew this year call it “Moggy”. Several Typhoon squadrons, many of which were flown by Belgian pilots, were based in Belgium in 1944, including at the airfield of Ursel.
With such history, this remarkable display, which will take part at the International Sanicole Airshow for the first time, surely contributes greatly to the flying programme!
Fabrikant/Manufacturer:
Eurofighter Jagdflugzeug
Tech Specif::
Length: 15.96 m (52 ft 4 in)
Height: 5.28 m (17 ft 4 in)
Empty weight: 11,000 kg (24,251 lb)
Maximum speed: 2,125 km/h (1,320 mph, 1,147 kn) / Mach 2.35
Power:
2 × Eurojet EJ200 afterburning turbofan engines, 60 kN (13,000 lbf) thrust each dry, 90 kN (20,000 lbf) with afterburner
Photos by Paul Johnson Flightline UK
