Couldn't agree more about Yeovilton 2020 being cancelled, but probably NOT today. The introduction of 'POETS' day began in Somerset & RNAS Yeovilton has embraced it to the extreme. It's now gone 3pm on a Friday & the last person leaving switched-off the lights @ midday.

Agreed! Great attitude & allied to TM-20 Beja we see a new slogan for these air-shows.... "Run it, don't bin it!"

Easy 'LaurenceG', you'll give your a heart-attack. We all die sometime, maybe now, maybe later? You could shut yourself away for 6 months & the first day you step-out...get hit by a Bus! Destiny is the word! It's a traditional English habit to use 'black humour' to counter adverse situations ove...

I looked at the Canon SX70 HS review & was amazed at the 'optical zoom range'! With all the features listed, I marvel at what you potentially get for such a small price-tag & almost instantly realise there must be a downside somewhere? In fairness, the shots you've posted on Flickr mostly fe...

Nah! They just got lucky with pulling the funding just in time to stop them losing a wedge! Aye, a canny bit o' foresight alright.

In the near future some very hard decisions will have to be made, especially if you have elderly relatives living nearby, or indeed share a dwelling-house with such a person. Clearly, if they are able to cope on their own, dress & feed themselves you could do worse than stay away. If you live wi...

I noticed that tickets for the IWM Duxford BoB. Air-show in September are "Non-transferable & Non-refundable" according to their website. I don't think that this COVID 19 will affect this show by then, unless you buy a ticket now & then die from the virus! Either way....it works ou...

Very interesting selection of shots indicative perhaps of some long days spent at the fence. Those Alpha-jets are looking great alongside the main event . (no...not EF-2000's!) Could you please indicate a 'normal' day of activity in terms of missions flown, if such a thing exists? I had hoped to tie...

Drivers that stop 12ft from the car in front at traffic lights then gradually creep up. Why not stop closer in the first place? Because that means you only get one dose of whiplash when some arsewipe on their phone clatters into the back of the car behind you!... or because you're driving an automa...

Airshowhammer wrote:Why do the Russians do it?

Because they can!
Need to train somewhere, why not tie that in with some 'cage rattling'?

Right time, right place & just a small dab of luck it wasn't lashing down like now. I guess too, not far short of a miracle that it made it all the way to Farnborough without breaking again.

Now, before anyone takes offence to me asking the question, bear in mind in my home Country (Australia) which has the added security of a "Big Pond" around us, Australia has already stopped Chinese, South Koreans & Iranians from travelling to Australia for the foreseeable future. Ital...

Clearly we're all "for the jump" whether we subscribe to the Doomsday predictions or not. RIAT may or may not happen, Bruntingthorpe may or may not have aviation content going forward, but for certain..we all gonna die, merely a question of when? Regarding the COVID19, I thought the elderl...

Agreed! For just one extra pane of Perspex each side & extended canopy rails it doesn't look too bad when the canopies are closed. Thought it was gonna be a right mess!

Inspired by your Lakenheath set, I had to check these out. I haven't been back to Coningsby since they decided to make the fleet anonymous, bar the numbers!
Your shots have transformed the mundane into an eclectic, interesting presentation. Well done.

I see from the link to the Business above, the Nature of business (SIC) is 33160 - Repair and maintenance of aircraft and spacecraft.
Maybe he's away on a trip with his green friends having some more 'probing' done?

Beautiful selection of very different images. Really impressed with the editing & creative cropping. This is the first offering from Lakenheath I've seen this year that's well worth another viewing!

Small wonder then, that when I order a Gyros I get an All-Day Breakfast?

Quote from Google: "Kalimera is the usual greeting in the morning, if you're greeting someone in the afternoon or evening, say kalispera."
As he didn't say it was in the morning & with BST in-place there's better than 50% chance he got it right?

Oh !..the joy of acronyms. I Googled "BIAS 2020" & came-up with 'The Bahrain International Airshow (BIAS) 2020' but cannot find the IKEA store anywhere?? Doh! So I tried 'Bucharesti International Air-show' & there's IKEA just where you might expect it. Sometimes Google isn't as fri...

As the 'Yellow-fin' isn't mentioned here, can I assume that's already repainted in a regular scheme? That's the only one of the 3 I've not seen/pictured.

Andy has summed up the pros and cons well. My only comment is that the Wittering noise issue was Harrier specific (low, slow on final approach over Barnack) and the Reds won't paint the same footprint. The really sensible choice would be to reactivate Cottesmore's runway , shiny new hangar near the...

Sooo! There we have it in a nutshell. EV battery technology will be there & ready in time for the Internal Combustion engine to cease being on sale. The millions of pounds in taxation revenue on Diesel & Petrol forecourt sales (up to the soon to be extended end if ICE vehicles?) will be ring...

On that basis I assume you enjoy the non-descript 'whiz' of Formula E Racing too? I'm afraid that for me the 'soundtrack' is an integral part of the experience. Had I been born deaf, I would've missed-out on many great sounding engines (& all other audible experiences!). The Tucano which had con...