Today I went with my Dad, my brother and a friend of the family, Paul to the Royal International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford. The weather was absolutely stunning with clear skies and bright sunshine; the airshow itself was pretty amazing too. There were something like three hundred planes on static display, these included helicopters, gliders and UAVs. There was almost constant buzzing overhead, with non-stop flying taking place from when we arrived until after we left. There were some memorable flying displays - a guy called Ali from Izbekistan doing crazy aerobatics (with a plane that weighs as much as a Mini with a 400HP engine!) the Harrier ascending in a vertical spiral, the Apache strafing across the runway but the best for me was the Red Arrows.
I took about 150 pictures with my Fuji Finepix s7000 camera - I’ve uploaded them all to my own picture gallery:
http://pics.rossbrown.net/gallery/RIAT-2005
Please leave comments for your favourites!
March 31st, 2006 at 4:31 pm
Ross, This is so exciting - i to was at the Airshow in fairford. Wasn’t it hot. i tried to sneek into the brietling tent for some refreshment , but was advised by two rather attractive girls that having a watch make that was an anagram of “toss it” was not going to get me in. My favourite was the typhoon and the — oh sory my dinner is ready now - bye
n