And long may they do so: many’s the time I’ve thanked them for a quick exit out of the carpark at an airshow.

Yes I call it the Vulcan effect as I have noticed many, shall we call them people, jump up and leave to get back to Essex after 558 or the Reds. This nicely clears the crowd line and the traffic jams before I am told to leave at closing time to get back to Tunbridge Wells. Personally I’m disgusted at such behaviour as it shows disrespect to following displays.:D:D

From our seats half way up and at the western end of the FRIAT grandstand my wife took these pictures of 558 approaching from the east which have intentionally not been edited in anyway.

558 takes off and makes a north circuit and “salutes” the grandstand.

Yes, yes I know she is an inanimate object!

IMG_3069 by p_meddemmen, on Flickr

IMG_3071 by p_meddemmen, on Flickr

IMG_3076 by p_meddemmen, on Flickr

My wife was not able to lift the camera back any further. Lens at 160mm.

IMG_3077 by p_meddemmen, on Flickr

Intrigue away, I’m not sayin lest it restarts debates abut safety, green isues and whether there was any educational value. You needed to be there.

As apparently this is ĺa “spirited” thread I had assumed that 558 had it’s own entity and therefore able to make a gesture.

Next along the English police and the drifters.

It’s just a picture of a plane doing something I thought people would be interested in, now we are into how old the audience is and whether RIAT is the show it used to be.

Now if we want to talk air displays how about Biggin Hill and Farnborough back in the 60’s and 70’s now they WERE air shows. I suppose you should consider yourself lucky if you are too young and therefore have nothing to compare today’s shows with. (And yes I know never end a sentence with with, but then they probably no longer teach that anyway)

Hi David, Yes I know but……….

I just posted a couple of pictures, of the Vulcan here and about the unusually large collection of Hurricanes which I thought formorites might find interesting, as I did. It hadn’t been my intention to spark off debates and implied critisms of anybody or anything but apparently I cannot even get the title of the thread to please everybody. I thought I was a born pessimist with my glass always half empty but apparently there are people with glass empty. If there had been an accident I hope anybody on here would just plainly say so in the title. Personally I thought that the “turn” was “unexpected” and at an “event” but there you go apparently people jumped to the conclusion that it had crashed and burned, and the mods seem to agree.

Absolutely nothing to do with you and, of course, you are quite right about the advisability of such a manoeuvre however much some of us enjoyed it. One can just imagine the comments on here if the outcome had ended in disaster as some people appear to be expecting.

Paul

It was announced prior to today’s display that the exuberance of yesterday would not be repeated today!!

So is six going to be a record at Biggin Hill in August?

Turn to right, banking over this far then went back.