RIAT 2024
As a middle aged, no..scratch that…as a three quarter aged dad to a young child, with a fairly stressful job the amount of time I can devote to hobbies has diminished over the years and RIAT is normally a sudden realisation of “shit, I need to pack, we’re going tomorrow”. However, this year for the […]
RIAT 2023
I am compiling this blog post about RIAT 2023 3 2 1 week before I hopefully go to RIAT 2024 which tells you how little spare time I have for blog posting, especially as I also run a fly fishing blog as well. Last year was a bit of a crazy one and not necessarily […]
Elvington airshow 2000
Elvington 2000….another airshow I can’t really remember much about but I’ll bang the photos up even though they are terrible! Seems I got to watch a display from 2 x Mirage F1s, bet that was awesome but I cannot bloody remember any of it! Also there was a Hurricane in a fetching night fighter black. […]
RIAT 2010
Whilst tracking back through my archives and trying to write these blog posts it’s become clear that I’m able to remember a lot more when I’ve taken pictures of the more mundane aspects of the entire airshow weekend, particularly phone camera pics. Often these are not pictures of aircraft but the places I might have […]
Elvington 2004
23 August 2004 2004…the year I got my first DSLR. I’d been diagnosed with cancer earlier in the year and during treatment decided to cheer myself up by banging a Canon 300D and on my credit card (£724.99) after seeing it in an advert. I hadn’t even realised you could get digital SLRs before then! […]
Elvington 1999??
Just an excuse to put some pics up for posterity really as I can’t remember much about this particular airshow other than the fact I took my first (and so far only) helicopter ride! I can also tell you I shot on ISO200film. We sometimes forget exactly how much digital has revolutionised photography!
RIAT 2006 – Sunday 16th July
My first trip to the Royal International Air Tattoo! Myself and good friend Chris decided to head down to Gloucestershire to see one of the world’s biggest military airshows for the first time. We got digs in a B&B which must not have been near any pubs as we were stuck for food. The hosts […]
Church Fenton 1980 – my first airshow
My first airshow was probably around 1980, at Church Fenton near Leeds. I have only glimpses of memories from that day – one is of the red bricks used on the station buildings (because clearly that’s what you should remember about an airshow) and the other is a toy English Electric Lightning I got that […]