Browsing: Airshow Industry & Events

The programme for the Sail 250 Baltimore event was thicker than some aviation magazines I subscribe to. I was looking at it in a hotel room in Maryland in

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

It was a Thursday evening in August, and I had not gone to see a drone display. I had gone to a friend’s birthday gathering in a field in Wiltshire, which

The livery was what stopped me. Not the flying, which was genuinely and frustratingly good, but the colour scheme, and specifically the logo that occupied

The Question They Are All Asking and Nobody Is Answering The grass at Redhill was still wet at half past nine when I arrived, that particular August dampne

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 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