Browsing: Airshow Industry & Events

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

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