Air Show Southend

One of my old passions are aeroplanes… Luckily, I had a chance to visit Air Show at Southend (commercialized place on the seaside)…

Southend is a cool place and I did write previously about it (longest peer in the world etc.) But this time location is irrelevant. SHOW is that what put smile on my face!! There was few quite cool airplanes to see, and among them guys in Red Arrows… And what else id there to say except – brilliant!!!

Here are few images…

I belive first were those commemorative flights… cool Spit fighters from WW-II… pride of Royal Air Force…

It is kinda cool to hear them buzz above. Actually it makes you think – how was it to look above in the sky and see squadrons of these babies flying above? Must of been really impressive…

A bit later, guys in Matadors (Red bull competitions) showed some real skills. In one word – Impressive! Boys can fly! Speed, manoeuvres, precision, orientation… Only few can have those skills.

Yup, like I said – boys can fly!… And when you just think – This is creme de la creme – Red Arrows…

To compare those would be something like this: Red Bull times 10 times 10 times the speed!!! Now THAT is precision, formations, manoeuvres… just breath taking…

I even managed to record a mini clip of it (Actually it is a miracle that I caught something)

Definitely worth watching… Finally Typhoon was presented (euro fighter). Noise it creates is scary! Air is trembling, engines are roaring….FENOMENAL!!!

Yup, just brings back memories of a kid looking up the sky and thinking – I want to be a pilot!

And there is a detail of me spending whole day with a bold head on the sun…

I got a case of sunburn (only if symptoms include: exhaustion, temperature, weakness, irritation and dreams about running through forest on fire??)