Your 2018 Highlights

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phreakf4
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Re: Your 2018 Highlights

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Highlights. All the air shows I attended.

Lows. All the air shows I was unable to attend.
nothing is confirmed at a show until its u/c hits the tarmac or it is running in for its display.....

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2018's highlights for me were:

RAF 100 Flypast
Harrier at Farnborough
Gibson Formation at Duxford Battle of Britain (didn't get to see it at RIAT)
Beech 18 at Abingdon Nightshoot

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Costar1198
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Time to display my take on things:
Pros:
- Seeing a Sea Fury fly for the first time in my life (Yes I need to get out more) at Biggin Hill
- The RAF100 flypast/RIAT RAF100 celebrations
- Don't mean to sound cheesy but joining this forum, it's really helped me out, and helped me appreciate some things more
- The weather!
Cons:
- Eastbourne being a complete washout as I went Sunday, and well... Saw the A109 but nothing else...
- Realising I recorded my RIAT films in 25fps as opposed to 50..... :wall:

Really I could say so much more good about the year but there's too many to list :grin:

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My highlights in no particular order.

Mig 29 / Hurricane at Cosford. I love seeing stuff like this happen.

The Red Bull Helicopters at Cosford. Two very different machines but equally evocative.

The Trenchard formations at Cosford and RIAT.

The infamous Couteau Delta incident at P&V West. As well as the immaculate display.

The weather (aside from that one hour spoiler) at RIAT we were blessed with blue skies this year.

Seeing the excitement on an airshow newbies face at Cosford this year.

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borismorris wrote:My highlights in no particular order.

The infamous Couteau Delta incident at P&V West. As well as the immaculate display.

r.


I must have missed this incident, what happened ?

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One of the aircraft powered up and blew quite a considerable number of photographers over.. :hide:

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frank wrote:
borismorris wrote:My highlights in no particular order.

The infamous Couteau Delta incident at P&V West. As well as the immaculate display.

r.


I must have missed this incident, what happened ?


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Euan Buchan wrote:The Corncorde was a iconic aircraft through the 1970's right to the sad crash with a Air France flight in Paris 2000. The Corncorde sadly retired in 2003 but you can still see them at Museum of Flights across the world.


Thanks for clarifying that for me. :up:
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Jakesplanes wrote:Don’t worry Euan, just ignore their banter, they don’t mean any harm. I’ve appreciated your many posts lately, good to see the next gen coming up, keep going :clap:


"the next gen coming up" :lol: :facepalm:

Are you having a laugh? He's 34 and should know very well how to spell "Concorde". He mainly only posts about stuff that has got nothing to do with aviation, but when he posts about anything aviation-related then he gets it badly wrong.

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Big Eric wrote:
Jakesplanes wrote:Don’t worry Euan, just ignore their banter, they don’t mean any harm. I’ve appreciated your many posts lately, good to see the next gen coming up, keep going :clap:


"the next gen coming up" :lol: :facepalm:

Are you having a laugh? He's 34 and should know very well how to spell "Concorde". He mainly only posts about stuff that has got nothing to do with aviation, but when he posts about anything aviation-related then he gets it badly wrong.


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