Sunday July 19th found me visiting the Royal International Air Tattoo at Fairford in Gloucestershire with my good friend John Hall. It has to be said that the only thing that was fair all day was the name of the venue! The weather, like a true British summer, was dreadful with strong winds and plenty of rain. The flying as always was top drawer and made up for the leaden skies. Highlights were the excellent Italian Frecce Tricolori and finally seeing the Avro Vulcan fly. It may have been from the dry sanctuary of the car where I viewed from, but it was still an incredible sight to see this mighty plane airborne again. After the disasterous rain-outs on both days at last years event, the organisers sorted their act out with car parking on tarmac and it made a great difference, it even alleviated the traditional RIAT traffic jams. Sadly the weather was too much and we did not get to see the Red Arrows display. It is so annoying that planning a day out in a British summer means having to don waterproofs all the time! Even more galling was hearing reports of visitors to the event on the Saturday coming away with sunburn...This coming weekend finds me at Mallory Park for my last outing with Team Revolution before I take some time out for some major changes to the photographic career - stay tuned all will be revealed!
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