Cooking With Richard

My office is opposite Farnborough airport, and every two years there’s a very famous airshow. We went there last time, in 2006 and took lots of photos.

The company held a BBQ today at the office, because the 2008 airshow is on at the moment, so we got a free display.

In the UK there are laws which were passed after an accident at the 1952 Farnborough show which killed many spectators to say that airplanes cannot fly over or towards the crowd. Well, our BBQ isn’t in the crowd, so the planes were flying right over us!

More photos later, but in the meantime, the Royal Air Force Red Arrows display team at Farnborough today:

Higher quality version

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