Bray Air Display - 27th & 28th July 2019

[jasT1981]

Bray have announced their dates for 2019 on their website. Weekend after RIAT as per usual, so more than likely I won't be able to do it.

http://brayairdisplay.com/

Flying

-France
Navette Bretonne

-Ireland
Irish Air Corps Team Silver
Irish Air Corps Casa N-235-100MPA Persuader
Irish Air Corps (TBA)
Irish Coast Guard S-92
Irish Defence Force “Black Knights”
Sukhoi Su-31 - Dave Bruton
Aer Lingus Airbus A320 / Sunday Only)
Garda Air Support Unit EC135T
Irish Parachute Club
CAP 232 - Eddie Goggins
Irish Historic Flight 3x De havilland chipmunk
Irish Historic Flight Boeing Stearman
Drone delivery display

-Great Britain
2x Strikemaster *Sunday only
Royal Air Force Tucano T1
Team Raven (D)
The Blades Aerobatic Team  / Sunday only)
P-51D Mustang - Miss Helen
Pitts S2S Muscle Bi-Plane - Richard Goodwin

-Jordan
Royal Jordanian Falcons

[jasT1981]

Full line up revealed, very poor show I think considering the progress they made between 2015 & 2017. With the IAA cancelling Foynes sponsorship to focus on 'other areas' i wonder if it had a knock on effect on Bray given how close they were linked to each other.

Strikemasters, Blades and Rich Goodwin are great, but it is a huge step-down I feel. No French, Swedish or Norwegian jets.

-France
Navette Bretonne (D)

-Ireland
Irish Air Corps Team Silver (D)
Irish Air Corps Casa N-235-100MPA Persuader (D)
Irish Air Corps (TBA)
Irish Coast Guard S-92 (D)
Irish Defence Force “Black Knights” (D)
Sukhoi Su-31 - Dave Bruton (D)
Aer Lingus Airbus A320 (D / Sunday Only)
Garda Air Support Unit EC135T (D)
Irish Parachute Club (D)
CAP 232 - Eddie Goggins (D)
Irish Historic Flight 3x De havilland chipmunk (D)
Irish Historic Flight Boeing Stearman(D)
Drone delivery display

-Great Britain
2x Strikemaster (D) *Sunday only
Royal Air Force Tucano T1 (D)
Team Raven (D)
The Blades Aerobatic Team (D / Sunday only)
P-51D Mustang - Miss Helen (D)
Pitts S2S Muscle Bi-Plane - Richard Goodwin (D)

-Jordan
Royal Jordanian Falcons (D)

[Angry Turnip]

That line-up is a bit feeble, perhaps the organisers want to promote home aircraft and displays, or more likely it`s a lack of funding.

A drone delivery display isn`t something I ever expected to see featured at an airshow.

[jasT1981]

IAA have apparently pulled funding for all airshows. Foynes got hit hard and had to be cancelled. Bray still has a lot of commercial sponsorship however it is very noticeable in the drastic change of dynamic in the line up

[jasT1981]

Did anyone get down to Bray? Apparently there was a very close call for David Bruton in the super Sukhoi had a VERY near miss with the sea today.

Apparently only a 2 and half hour display and Strikemasters had a tech issue, and for something like 5th year in a row Blades didn't show up.

[Sneaky_Nikon]

TBH I'd happily have travelled for the A320/PC-9 formation, bit peeved about that but otherwise it sounds like it was a dead loss.

[jasT1981]

Yeah,  bit annoyed I missed that too.

Navette Bretone was a no show too.

[Ed Winchester]

David Bruton in the super Sukhoi had a VERY near miss with the sea today.

From what I saw in the media it was an overreaction to a stall turn. But awaiting confirmation