Posted on 07/21/2024 8:00:25 PM PDT by know.your.why
RIAT 2024 was in full throttle on Saturday, with seven hours of high-energy flying displays to thrill thousands of people who flooded through the gates.
The theme of this year’s show is Air and Space: Pushing the Boundaries, and this explores the limits of the technology that the aviation industry is looking to use to its advantage.
The British Antarctic Survey is pushing the boundaries of scientific knowledge about global warming, and one of their Twin Otter aircraft is at the show after an epic journey via Chile, Peru, Panama, Mexico, the USA, Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Northern Ireland, and Fairford.
Meanwhile, there are anniversaries with more sombre overtones.
Nato is celebrating its 75th anniversary with spectacular flypasts, but it is hoped that the guardian of the western world continues in its role.
And one of its prime guardians is celebrating its 50th birthday.
Everything is about climate change. I will not participate.
Hard to accept that the F16 is 50 years old as claimed. It is actually 45 as the first deployment was in January 1979.
My dad worked on those planes.
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