Browsing: Display Teams & Aircraft

I counted them twice. Not because I doubted myself but because the part of my brain that has been watching the Red Arrows since I was old enough to stand a

I had been standing in the same spot for forty minutes when the Blue Angels came through for their opposing solos, and the man beside me, a retired RAF eng

The moment I understood it was not at an airshow at all. It was a Tuesday afternoon at Redhill, of all places, standing at the edge of the grass strip with

The first time I saw them perform, I was standing at the wrong end of RIAT. Not wrong in any official sense, just wrong for my purposes, which is to say I

The first time I understood that a display could be two entirely different events happening simultaneously, I was standing at Fairford watching an F-15E wo

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 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 CT-114 Tutor is not a glamorous aircraft. I want to be honest about that before anything else, because the conversation around the Snowbirds tends to a