Author Archives: Michael Gordon
Olympics prompts display of unity
Two of the UK’s most prestigious airshows have worked together to reschedule their previously published show dates for 2012 in order to operate harmoniously alongside the Olympic Games in London.
The airshows in question, the Royal International Air Tattoo (RIAT) and Farnborough International Airshow (FIA) have a history of supporting one another and working together. In 2008, FIA organisers Farnborough International Ltd (FIL) extended the hand of friendship to RIAT customers when its show was unavoidably called off due to extreme weather conditions, by opening the doors of Farnborough’s public airshow to members of Friends of RIAT who had been disappointed by the cancellation of the event which is held yearly at RAF Fairford.
RAF C-17 for Abingdon
In a major coup, the Abingdon Air & Country Show in Oxfordshire on Sunday May 3rd has, subject to operational requirements, secured an appearance from the RAF’s largest aircraft – the Boeing C-17 Globemaster III.
No 99 Squadron at nearby RAF Brize Norton will be flying in one of its five C-17s to the show at Dalton Barracks, Abingdon Airfield, early on the morning of May 3rd.
Paris Airshow 2009
The Third Moscow International Forum and Exhibition UVS-Tech-2009
In late January 2009 the Crocus Expo Centre in Moscow became the scene for an international forum and an exhibition of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). This exhibition, the third of its kind, bore the name UVS-Tech-2009, UVS standing for Unmanned Versatile Systems. Housed in one of the Expo Centre’s large halls, the exhibition comprised several dozens UAVs of different classes and sizes, ranging from small craft resembling flying models to machines with a wing span of 4 to 5 metres.