Bonus

All in all it was an amazing three weeks!

Lots of F-15's and F-16's

This is a stunning piece of kit and puts on an awesome display

Nice and empty for me 🙂 The Red Arrows and another display team did a combined practice display. They didn't fly together during the actual airshow so we were lucky 🙂

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After posting pics of me working at Fairford Airshow whilst it was being installed, I'm finally getting around to posting pics I took of the planes as they arrived. It was so nice being able to drive anywhere we wanted to and take pics before the crowds arrived 🙂 These 2 pics are of an F-22 that comes in "kit form" in half a dozen shipping containers and is put together by a team. It's actually just a big and very realistic plastic model!

I'm not sure exactly. If I find out I'll post it on here.

He wasn't cycling but....... We have a 21 yr old nephew who is studying/work experiencing in Cape Town at the moment. He's a well bought up, polite and considerate young man who would never hurt anyone. He was attacked walking to work early the other morning. They sliced through his chest, lung, diaphragm and spleen - cutting him from his upper chest down to his lower stomach. Stole his almost empty wallet and left him for dead. He managed to crawl for help. Someone found him and he was rushed to hospital. They removed his spleen but managed to save his lung and repair his diaphragm. yesterday he came off of his morphine drip and hopefully in a few days he'll be able to leave hospital and go home for a long period of rest and recovery.

Yep 🙂

There was a week or so that was incredible hot - 38 & 39 degrees. The heat coming up from the runways and taxiways was exhausting. Twice we worked all day, saw the sun set and then saw it rise again the next day! 21hr shifts - because there was a lot of stuff we had to do between the last plane coming in on the evening before the airshow and the next morning when the doors opened. Then again the moment the doors closed on Sunday evening we worked all night so that planes could leave early the next day. Tough work but very rewarding and with a great bunch of people.

Packing up 😞

Taking down the big vinylls - gravity helped!

I wanted to bring some of the pics home - but where would I put them?

VIP entrance and Exit . . . .

Lots of branding . . . .

We had nothing to do with this! It went up in a day, they work fast!

My son, enjoying time out of the office!