International Scale Modeller

July has been really busy for us and the downside is that it's severely restricted my bench & browsing time but the upside was that a couple of weekends back was our annual trip down the road to Fairford for RIAT.

I've still got loads of photos to work through but here's my first batch from walking around on Friday

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There's a few more here: RIAT 2025 Friday

Thanks for looking - more to follow

Superb pics (as usual). I just love that Apache against that cloudscape.

You Sir, are an Artiste, Sir

Great pic's and I like the big ole transport chopper.

Outstanding shots!

Hi Neil, thanks for sharing your artistic photos - there's some great inspiration and reference material. I'm looking forward to seeing the rest.

Cool pics!

Stokesy44 wrote: ↑Mon Aug 04, 2025 5:53 pm Superb pics (as usual). I just love that Apache against that cloudscape.

You Sir, are an Artiste, Sir

digger303 wrote: ↑Tue Aug 05, 2025 11:09 am Great pic's and I like the big ole transport chopper.

DBMiller wrote: ↑Tue Aug 05, 2025 2:43 pm Outstanding shots!

Steve64 wrote: ↑Wed Aug 06, 2025 9:31 am Hi Neil, thanks for sharing your artistic photos - there's some great inspiration and reference material. I'm looking forward to seeing the rest.

aur0ra145 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 07, 2025 3:25 amCool pics!

Thanks chaps

So as expected it's taking me a while to work through Sunday's efforts but in the meantime here's a couple of short sets to give a quick idea of how it went...

It's fair to say that conditions were... changeable... here's a few shots from the Chinook display with the timestamps of when they were taken...

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And one of the highlights of Sunday's display was seeing the U2 in flight












Thanks as always for looking

Seeing the U-2 is awesome!

Great pics (as ever).

Amazing the U2 is still in service and still viable. What incredible designing and engineering.

Superb pictures as ever mate. The U2 still in front line service, got to be one of if not the oldest aircraft still in front line service.

aur0ra145 wrote: ↑Sun Aug 17, 2025 3:59 pm Seeing the U-2 is awesome!

Stokesy44 wrote: ↑Sun Aug 17, 2025 8:02 pm Great pics (as ever).

Amazing the U2 is still in service and still viable. What incredible designing and engineering.

Kevthemodeller wrote: ↑Mon Aug 18, 2025 6:56 am Superb pictures as ever mate. The U2 still in front line service, got to be one of if not the oldest aircraft still in front line service.

Thanks lads - yep the U2 is still quite a sight; it went into service in 1956 so will be 70 next year

I'm about half-way through Sunday's photos so here's the highlights from the first half...

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It was a bit moist to start the day - the first couple are just transport movements rather than being part of the show


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They've upped the top speed limit for displays this year and a couple of the fast jets were transonic on their fast passes


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Thanks as always for looking - I'll post up the rest of Sunday as I work through them

Tomcat64 wrote: ↑Wed Aug 20, 2025 2:49 pm Thanks lads - yep the U2 is still quite a sight; it went into service in 1956 so will be 70 next year

I think the B52 is older entering service in 55, read somewhere it's planned to be flying at 100! If true that's amazing considering the concept of heigh level strategic bomber is pretty much dead, or perhaps it isn't.

There was some extremely sad news on the Air Display circuit this week when we heard that Polish pilot Major Maciej ‘Slab’ Krakowian, the leader of the Polish Air Force's F-16 Tiger Demo Team, had been killed in a crash whilst practising for the Radom airshow in his native country just weeks after being awarded the "As the crow flies" trophy for "best overall flying demonstration" at RIAT in July.

So here are a few more of my shots from his displays as a now poignant tribute and reminder of the risks these guys take on a daily basis














Blue Skies sir - thank you for everything you did

Ok - still catching up on stuff but managed to complete processing of my RIAT photos, here's the final set from Sunday

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Thanks again for looking - hope there was something you liked.

If you want to see more there are albums on Flickr: Friday and Sunday

As always mate some amazing pictures