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.
The Future of Military Aviation, Subject to Diplomatic Conditions I spoke to a defence journalist at Biggin Hill a few summers back, someone who covers the
What It Costs to Get It Back The last time I drove to Headcorn for their fly-in, the car park was a field that had seen better summers and the tea urn in t
The Empty Slot in the Programme There was a gap in the flying display at Farnborough two years ago that I don’t think anyone in the official press coverage
The Show Must Go On. Until It Shouldn’t. I was standing on the south side of the Redhill strip on a Tuesday evening in July, watching a Harvard come in low
The Wales Airshow 2026 takes place on Saturday 25 and Sunday 26 July over Swansea Bay. Ground displays open at 10:00am and run until 18:00 on both days. Admission is free. The event regularly attracts 250,000 visitors over the weekend, making it the biggest free event of the year in Wales.For official aviation safety context, see the UK Civil Aviation Authority. For the previous guide in this series, see Radom Airshow 2026: Cancellation, F-16 Crash, AirSKY Return, and 4 Key Facts Visitors Need to Know.What Is the Wales Airshow?The Wales Airshow is a free, 2-day aerial display event held along Swansea…
The International AirSHOW Radom 2025 was cancelled following a fatal F-16 crash on 28 August 2025. The official AirSHOW Radom website has since confirmed that AirSHOW Radom 2026 is in preparation. No specific dates for the 2026 main edition have been confirmed at the time of publication. This article covers the 2025 cancellation, what aviation events took place near Radom in 2026, the airshow’s history, and what visitors can expect from the next full edition.For official aviation safety context, see the UK Civil Aviation Authority. For the previous guide in this series, see Southend Airshow 2026: Is It Returning, What Happened,…
There is a section of the flight line at most British airshows that I have come to think of, privately, as the grief line. It is not marked. Nobody acknowl
The ejection handle on a Martin-Baker seat is painted in diagonal yellow and black stripes for exactly the reason you would assume: because when you need i
The landlord at the pub nearest to the airfield had been running his system long enough that it had stopped feeling like preparation and started feeling li
There is a particular quality of cognitive dissonance that arrives when you are standing in a field in Gloucestershire eating a lukewarm sausage roll and y