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Monday, July 14, 2008

Farnborough Airshow

It's on!

Airbus A380, Farnborough Airshow 2008Update 20:22

I went through the small handful of photos I shot during my short lunchbreak and the best shot is of the Airbus A380 which, despite being the world's biggest airliner, was a graceful plane.

I love Farnborough sometimes.

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Blue Skies thinking @ 7/14/2008 12:59:00 PM  

9 Comments:

  • At Mon Jul 14, 05:11:00 PM, Blogger Rederick said…

    380 caused a massive rumble earlier at the office. Didn't get to see it though :-(

     

  • At Mon Jul 14, 06:37:00 PM, Blogger Lever said…

    Rederick: The Airbus is pretty graceful for such a big bird. Got some good shots of it too. The Typhoon was the nosiest of the lot and the F-16 caught us in the wake of its afterburner... Awsome! :)

     

  • At Tue Jul 15, 06:20:00 PM, Blogger Rederick said…

    Saw it today, and I saw the Typhoon yesterday, and heard it again today. Don't have a window near me in the office! By the time you hear, its long gone out of sight.

    Although strange how there are more smokers this week in the car park... many seem to just have coffee...! :-)

     

  • At Tue Jul 15, 06:48:00 PM, Blogger Lever said…

    rederick: crikey, twice in one week my friend. And I forgot to say yesterday how good it was to see you pop by :)

    Glad you caught a glimpse of the A380 and that noisy bastard Typhoon - it must have have been pointing its jet exhaust right at my window at one stage - I couldn't see it for the trees but my eardrums were bleeding by the end of it and my workmate said his tinnitus was worse for it!

    Hehe, I thought of "taking up smoking" this week and I'm glad I have... got some more shots 'round here somewhere... some display team and an old Vickers Vimy I think...

     

  • At Mon Jul 21, 02:23:00 AM, Blogger Mummy/Crit said…

    i thought of you when i heard it was on. is it the oldest airshow? glad you had fun!

     

  • At Mon Jul 21, 11:59:00 PM, Blogger Lever said…

    mummy/crit: Hey mate, good to know the name of our good town gets heard on the other side of the world :)

    Oh, that was just the bit from the car park at work... :D

     

  • At Tue Jul 22, 12:13:00 AM, Blogger Mummy/Crit said…

    well, that association was laready there for me as farnborough and the air show featured prominently in a novel i read as a child about the beginnings of aviation.

     

  • At Tue Jul 22, 12:23:00 AM, Blogger Lever said…

    mummy/crit: wow, that's pretty cool indeed, what book was that?

     

  • At Fri Jul 25, 11:39:00 PM, Blogger Mummy/Crit said…

    The second book in a series by KM Petyon Called Flambards the book was The Edge of the Cloud about WW1 and flying...

     

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