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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

The programme said the display would start at half past two. By three o’clock the commentator was explaining, with the particular strained cheerfulness tha

There was a moment at Biggin Hill, maybe four or five years ago now, when I overheard two men behind me having a conversation I wasn’t meant to hear. One o

The Kids Who Already Know the Aircraft Names There is a particular type of child you see at airshows near active military stations, and once you have notic

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

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

I did not go to Oshkosh for the first fifteen years I was writing about airshows, for the straightforward reason that it seemed too large to be useful. Air

I noticed it first in the static park. Not the absence of aircraft, exactly, but the quality of the absence. The spaces where things should have been. A ga

The F-22 came in low over the Fairford runway and did something to the air that I am still not sure I have the right vocabulary for. Not loud in the way a

I found out the way most people did. A message in a group chat, no context, just a link and a single word from someone who had been going to Fairford since