Browsing: Airshow Safety & Incidents

I was at Redhill last week. The usual Tuesday quiet, a PA-28 doing circuits, someone’s thermos cooling on the bonnet…

The news from Mountain Home came through on a Saturday. I happened to be at Redhill at the time, watching…

I heard about the Mountain Home collision the way most people in the airshow community hear about incidents. A message…

There is a particular quality to the silence that follows something that should not have happened. Not the absence of noise. Something denser than that. I

It was the Tuesday after Shoreham. I remember standing in the car park at Redhill, just watching a Cherokee do circuits in the afternoon quiet, and thinkin

I heard the F-22 before I had any reasonable right to. The sound arrived somewhere over the tree line to the west of the display line, a low registered pre

There was a moment at Fairford, three summers ago, when the crowd went quiet in a way I had not heard before. Not the reverent hush that falls when a Lanca

I saw it for the first time on a phone screen, held by a man in a folding chair at a small fly-in somewhere in Oxfordshire. He was showing it to his compan

The ejection seat came out at about two thousand feet. I know that because I had been watching the display closely enough to judge the altitude, which is s

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