The quality of the "review" of RIAT 2014 is certainly not worthy of privileged press access. It is merely written as a list of participants, with no insight or critical rigour applied to the content. The photography too isn't up to muster. One wonders what on earth RIAT benefit from givin...

basically to keep our RIAT press pass we need to keep people excited/interested. Serious? Yep! Power to the press! To be honest, I'm not sure the press pass really improves the output a huge amount (don't quote me), but I can't pay my contributors so if they don't get some kind of benefit they'd pr...

Would be great to see them back! They were simply stunning when they came in 2012 and defintely outclassed all other Aerobatic Teams at RIAT and Waddington that year. I'd love to see them again. I was lucky and watched them fly three times at the Singapore Airshow. Even after 3 days of watching the...

Hi, I'm the editor of This is Flight. All information on the Avalon page has been taken from official press releases and from Paul Bennett's own calendar. I'm in contact with the Avalon people and they say that the list will be on their website in the next two weeks. Re RIAT, the Thunderbirds and Sm...

Hello everyone, I'm new to the forum, but I think I have some interesting information for you... I'm a journalist and I interviewed the Squadron Commander of the Black Eagles back in February. He said that at some point very soon he wants to go back to the UK (but flying the aircraft there this time...