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 Formation That Does Not Need to Try I was at an event in Lincolnshire, a modest affair by the standards of the major shows, maybe three thousand people
The Sales Pitch You Queued Three Hours to Attend He said it without any particular drama, the way someone states something they have long since stopped con
The Tickets Were Always the Tell There is a particular moment at a certain class of British airshow, usually around mid-afternoon on the Saturday, when you
What the Crowd Carries Home I was at a grass strip event in Hertfordshire when I first heard someone describe watching an aircraft go in. Not a collision.
There is no Teignmouth Airshow in 2026. The volunteer organising committee confirmed in February 2026 that the event will not return, citing a failure to meet the £100,000 fundraising target. The last show was held in July 2024. No replacement date has been announced.Is the Teignmouth Airshow Happening in 2026?No. The Teignmouth Airshow 2026 is not taking place. The organising committee confirmed this officially in February 2026 after the required funding was not secured. The show was also cancelled in 2025 for the same reason. For the previous guide in this series, see Headcorn Airshow 2026: Dates, Tickets, Aircraft, and 5 Key…
There is a particular position that experienced airshow photographers take up at the rope line that I have come to recognise over the years, a kind of sett
The first thing you notice, standing close enough to matter, is that a Spitfire smells of oil before it smells of anything else. Not the clean mineral smel
I was standing near the rope at Duxford, maybe thirty feet from the runway threshold, when the Reds came back in from their transit and the lead aircraft w
The Red Arrows came over Biggin Hill last summer in the kind of late-afternoon light that makes everything look like a painting you are not sure you deserv
The Merlin was already on finals when I checked my phone, and I remember thinking afterwards that it was an odd moment to be reading about dead men. The ai