Farnborough Airshow
July 14th, 2008
It’s on!
Update 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.
380 caused a massive rumble earlier at the office. Didn’t get to see it though
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!
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…!
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…
i thought of you when i heard it was on. is it the oldest airshow? glad you had fun!
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…
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.
mummy/crit: wow, that’s pretty cool indeed, what book was that?
The second book in a series by KM Petyon Called Flambards the book was The Edge of the Cloud about WW1 and flying…
Don’t know a whole lot about planes, but one appears briefly in Hellboy 2. Go and see it!
I AM really sorry I missed this years airshow…I have GOT to get there for the one in 2 years time!!! I’ve been showing off your stellar Red Arrows photo, BTW….
Pretty plane. Not that I can complain much, but you really should cough up a new post sometime. Just thinkin’
just pointing something out: it is Sept. 16 and this post says JULY 14.
who do you think you are – me?
just saying. :/
Whoa! That is a blue whale of an airplane! I’d love to see one up close. :p
It’s been ages, Babe.