Tuesday, 30 June 2009

I Missed The Air Show At Biggin Hill In Kent This Year,

which was a shame for two reasons,

firstly the show included displays by the Cold-War era Avro Vulcan V-bomber which has been on the blog a couple of times and the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight with the Hurricane and Spitfire fighters and Lancaster bomber, secondly a fly past of one of Sir Richard Branson's 747's with a formation of the Red Arrows, who are renowned throughout the world as ambassadors for both the Royal Air Force and the UK, Sir Richard founded Virgin Atlantic in 1984, despite taking on the giant BA it now has a fleet of 38 aircraft, including thirteen 747-400s, six A340-300s and nineteen A340-600s,

Biggin Hill is still an airport, but in the second World war it was part of fighter comand, for pictures and the history of Biggin Hill over the past 100 years go here, British And Proud Of It!

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2 comments:

  1. Paul Charles30 June 2009 at 10:30

    Sorry to hear that you missed the airshow. Don't fret though as there is some great footage from the Red Arrow Display with the Virgin Atlantic 747 aircraft on You Tube - click on this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frhXNhtw8fE
    Paul Charles
    Virgin Atlantic

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  2. PattayaStan1 July 2009 at 05:24

    Dear Paul, many thanks for the link, the Internet out here has been really bad today so I have only just watched it, I will try to remember to be out a bit earlier next year, also I must remember to put a couple of pictures on the blog where I was a guest in Breaden Walsh's All Stars aerobatics team at Northweald, just wish I could remember where I put the pictures, we were in YAK 52fighter trainers, those were the days! best regards, Stan and Diana.

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