Author: Alex Bradley
Alex Bradley
Alex Bradley is a UK-based aviation writer and airshow circuit regular who has spent years attending displays from RIAT at Fairford and the Biggin Hill Festival of Flight to small fly-ins that drew two hundred people and a hot dog van, and values both for entirely different reasons. He is not a pilot. He is not a PR man for the aviation industry. He is the person in the crowd who has been coming long enough to notice when something has quietly changed, when an organiser is papering over a problem, and when a display is genuinely worth the drive. His writing on Redhill Airshow covers the British airshow circuit, safety, display team politics, CAA regulations, and the quiet contraction of grass airfield culture that nobody in the industry wants to discuss plainly. He has stood at Redhill Aerodrome in every kind of English summer weather, watched Tiger Moths bank low over Surrey farmland, and carries strong opinions about what this country is slowly losing one cancelled event at a time.
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The Abingdon Air and Country Show 2026 has been cancelled. The organisers stated: “Due to circumstances beyond our control it is with reluctance that we are having to cancel the show which was due to be held on Saturday 13th June. We have tried to find ways of making this year’s show viable but it’s not to be unfortunately.”This article covers the cancellation, the reasons behind it, the show’s 26-year history, its venue, and what aviation events remain accessible to visitors in the South East of England in 2026. For the previous guide in this series, see Sidmouth Airshow 2026: Dates,…
I counted them twice. Not because I doubted myself but because the part of my brain that has been watching the Red Arrows since I was old enough to stand a
There is a particular quality to the silence that follows something that should not have happened. Not the absence of noise. Something denser than that. I
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I had been standing in the same spot for forty minutes when the Blue Angels came through for their opposing solos, and the man beside me, a retired RAF eng
It was the Tuesday after Shoreham. I remember standing in the car park at Redhill, just watching a Cherokee do circuits in the afternoon quiet, and thinkin
I heard the F-22 before I had any reasonable right to. The sound arrived somewhere over the tree line to the west of the display line, a low registered pre
The last time I walked the static display at Farnborough with any real freedom was probably 2014, and even then I am being generous with the word freedom.
The year RIAT was cancelled for COVID, I drove to Fairford anyway. Not to the airfield. Just to the town. I am not entirely sure why. Some combination of h