Robert

Born in 1953 in Manchester UK and now live in Middlesex which is located near London. I have been interested in aviation since the early 1960's. My main interest since 1978 is aviation photography.
Farnborough 2010

Farnborough 2010

The Farnborough International Airshow is a seven-day international trade fair for the aerospace business which is held in even-numbered years in mid-July at Farnborough Airfield in Hampshire, England. The Farnborough Airshow has its origins in the annual RAF Airshow at Hendon (1920–1937). On 27 June 1932, the Society of British Aircraft Constructors held an exhibition [...]

RIAT 2010

RIAT 2010

The first Air Tattoo was staged at North Weald airfield in Essex with just over 100 aircraft taking part. The event was founded by Timothy Prince and Paul Bowen. From these small beginnings the show became the International Air Tattoo in 1976, and recognition of its unique status was granted by Her Majesty The Queen [...]

RIAT Fairford 2009

RIAT Fairford 2009

The Royal International Air Tattoo (RIAT) is the world’s largest military air show, held annually over the third weekend in July, usually at RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire, United Kingdom in support of The Royal Air Force Charitable Trust. The show usually attracts a total of 150,000 to 200,000 spectators on both days. The first Air [...]

Waddington 2009

Waddington 2009

The first RAF Waddington International Air Show was staged at RAF Waddington in 1995, after the event was moved down from RAF Finningley – an RAF station located near Doncaster which was closed down in 1995. Since then the RAF Waddington International Air Show has developed into the largest of all RAF’s air shows. It [...]

Gilze-Rijen 2010

Gilze-Rijen 2010

Gilze-Rijen Air Base (Dutch: Vliegbasis Gilze-Rijen) (IATA: GLZ, ICAO: EHGR) is a military airbase in the Netherlands located between the cities of Breda and Tilburg, in the Noord-Brabant province. It is mainly, but not exclusively used as a base for attack helicopters. The airfield has two runways, the longest, complete with instrument landing system (ILS) [...]

RAF Northolt 2010

RAF Northolt 2010

RAF Northolt is a Royal Air Force station located 2 NM (3.7 km; 2.3 mi) east by northeast of Uxbridge in the London Borough of Hillingdon, in West London, UK. Approximately 10 km (6.2 mi) north of London Heathrow Airport, it also handles a large number of private civilian flights. RAF Northolt is actually situated [...]

Lasham Airfield

Lasham Airfield

Second World War Aircraft Preservation Society is in the north-east area of Lasham Airfield, Alton, Hampshire. Collection include wartime buildings, material recovered from the crash sites as well outdoor displayed airplanes. On the same airfield is also stationed gliding club. Some of the aircrafts from the museum display are obtained from the other air forces [...]

Flugausstellung Hermeskeil

Flugausstellung Hermeskeil

Flugausstellung Hermeskeil in Germany is the largest privately owned aviation museum in Europe. It is founded in 1973 and it cover the space of some 76.000 square meters. On this large area is display many of the civil and military airplanes. Museum is open to visitors from April to October. Some over 100 of airplanes, [...]

RIAT 2007

RIAT 2007

The Royal International Air Tattoo is a very large Air Show containing hundreds of military aircraft from a wide variety of countries both in the static park and flying display. RIAT has been held at Fairford since 1985 and one of the themes of this years display was to mark the 60th anniversary of the [...]