LIVE STEALTH FIGHTER ACTION F-35B HOME OF THE DAMBUSTERS 617 SQN • RAF MARHAM 24.05.24

Live from RAF Marham, home of the F-35 Lightning a 5th Generation, multi-role, stealth fighter.
Based here at Marham are the new recommissioned 809 Naval Air Squadron (NAS), the famous 617 'Dambusters' squadron and 207 Squadron, the OCU for both RAF and the Royal Navy.
Scenes
00:00:59 Nikos singing (channel theme)
00:01:26 Opening guard’s march
00:02:28 Squadrons at RAF Marham
00:05:09 Presentation - Intro + history
00:07:46 RAF Marham - history
00:13:57 Guard’s march for 52k subscribers + channel philosophy
00:16:21 F-35B - wave 1 departing
00:24:24 Presentation - Channel ethics
00:31:52 History w/ Ted
00:41:33 Squadrons at RAF Marham
00:49:20 F-35B - wave 1 returning
01:14:13 A greeting from the base
01:35:07 Phenom touch-and-go
01:40:40 Presentation - F-35 variants explained
02:10:08 F-35B - wave 2 departing
02:44:13 - unrestricted climb (= quick climb)
03:15:59 Presentation - preliminary summary + history
03:28:45 Beech 76 taxiing
03:29:02 SR22 landing
03:35:55 F-35B - wave 2 returning
03:58:47 - 3-ship formation entering circuit
04:30:52 C-130J at cruising altitude
04:50:00 Reggie + chuck’n
04:56:09 Ted showing his new flag
04:57:01 Outro
809 Naval Air Squadron (NAS) disbanded in December of 1982, 9 months after a Squadron of Sea Harriers had been formed to fly from HMS Invincible and HMS Hermes at the height of the Falklands conflict. In early August of 1982 the Squadron sailed on the newly commissioned HMS Illustrious providing air defence for Port Stanley while the airport was upgraded to accept RAF Phantoms. Fast forward 41 years, 809 NAS re-commissioned as the second frontline F-35B Lightning Squadron based at RAF Marham. A commissioning ceremony took place in December 2023 to officially stand-up the Squadron.
617 Squadron is based at RAF Marham. The Squadron adopted its name and badge after the famous Dams Raid in 1943. Previous aircraft flown include the Avro Lancaster, Lincoln and Vulcan; English Electric Canberra; and Panavia Tornado. They are now flying the F-35B Lightning fifth-generation combat aircraft.
In 2014 617 Sqn, disbanded on 28 February, after returning from a final HERRICK deployment on 30 January. Began re-forming in 2016, in preparation to become the UK’s first frontline Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning unit. In 2018, our 617 Squadron Lightnings landed at RAF Marham, the unit’s new home. In 2019 the Lightning Dawn saw 617 Squadron deploy to RAF Akrotiri for Operation SHADER sorties and subsequent training alongside Israeli and Italian F-35s.
And in June 2020 , 617 Squadron embarked operational Lightnings aboard HMS Queen Elizabeth for the first time. In September, the unit returned to the ship, alongside visiting US Marine Corps F-35Bs, in preparation for the vessel’s Carrier Strike Group 21 first operational sailing in 2021.
207 Squadron is the joint RAF and Royal Navy Operational Conversion Unit for Lightning. It started as 7 Naval Air Squadron in 1916 at Petit-Synthe, France. The squadron then became part of the RAF in 1918 and in 1938, they became the Fairey Battle operational training unit at RAF Cottesmore. In 1968, 207 reformed at RAF Northolt as the RAF Communications Squadron, disbanding again in 1984. They then reformed again in 2002 at RAF Linton-on-Ouse as 207 (Reserve) Squadron conducting Basic Fast Jet Training for RAF and Royal Navy pilots, disbanding again in 2012. 7 years later in 2019, 207 squadron stood up as 207 Squadron at RAF Marham as the F-35 Lightning Operational Conversion Unit.
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[@v.h.7105]

Busy Brewer 81G. 51/51 OTTO. #19 Fen Row. Awesome memories. Long life to RAF Marham.

[@debbiebrooks2716]

For something a little bit special come to RAF Marham home of the F-35B the jets that hover very nice and a few nice little private planes. Reggie popped in with his chucken snacks, Ted's Dad popped in for a special visit Nikos was kept on his toes. Well done to Nikos and Ted such a lovely RAF Base wonderful wildlife full of birds, bunnies and of course not forgetting the Teddys. Have a wonderful weekend everyone see you all next week and enjoy the Bank Holiday.
( keep a watch out for those hawks Nikos) .......

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[@DanielWalker4524]

He he 😅 only found the traditional signal issue once on the stream do all good. Last of the week and upto date. Super cool to see our own RAF F35B doing their stuff. Plenty of action from the various squadrons on base. The low passes and low approaches look real good with the Lift fan hatch open sounding awesome as they put the power back on to climb back into circuit. Good spot that. Great to watch the and listen to the sound change as the lift fan kicks in to hover and land. Dome conventional landings too. Although they seem to slam them F35B's down on VTOL landing. In contrast super buttery silky smooth on normal landing. Those aircraft look great climbing to break into circuit. RAF Crsnwell makes an appearance with the Phenom touch and go. MC130j passing overhead was a great shot there Nikos. What about watching that UnrestricTED climb. Seen 2 on here from RAF Marham. Looked the business doing it. So glad we got to see so much of our home grown boys skills in the ever so clever F35B.
Insight into Marhams Squadrons Inc 617, 207 OCU and 809 NAS, Royal Navy Squadron. Let's hope we get more of these.
Skim the trees here! Great filming position. Good find Ted
Brilliant 👏 chats, excellent education as always. Good to learn and enjoy at the same time. Nice day at Marham then. Good Times.

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Oohh yeah

[@debbiebrooks2716]

love the flags Ted very nice indeed.

[@timfirkins5033]

Nikos great stream today it's quite spooky how all the streamers that visit Marham have issues with signal especially when F35's arrive it's like a spooky jamming signal. Great to see the vertical landings as well. It's a great place and the birdsong there when there are no planes is terrific. Oh the shot of the B52 something special too .Have a great weekend Nikos,Claire, and of course Ted

[@TedConingsby]

Oii oiii Tim, not just streamers, shops (card readers go down) and people in the area have network issues. Mobile phone signal drops and Google maps goes strange. Anyways, ooohhh yeah

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