Yesterdays Families Day at Airbus, Broughton, UK.
Thought you might like to see a few pics. from this event. ( Only 7 miles from me ) Cracking Air Display with WW2 Warbirds, Display Teams and flying Motorcyclists. Good ground displays and events too. Held yesterday By Airbus Industries as a Families day and 40th. Anniversary of something I never found out.--lol.
Camera played up, so I missed shots of the Vulcan, which was performing stunning wing overs, however, my Brother-in-Law didn't, but one of the army parachute drop team missed the Arena and landed right behind me in the crowd, ( see pic. ) he came down real fast, swinging right around and found a small gap in the spectators, he hit the deck and skidded along right through a group of people ending up under this lady in the blue jacket, she was well surprised as she didn't see his arrival.
Nobody was hurt or knocked down, an excellent piece of parachute flying. I was going to shout a warning to everyone, but realised they would run and he would hit some one, so kept quiet. ( There we are,---- put that down to my CFS3 On-Line quick reaction Flight Training--lol) Maybe I saved somebody from bad injury, phew!! a close one indeed.
The parachutist did not want a pic. taken, so gathered up his gear and with smoke still --ON, ran behind a marquee.
The motor Cyclists Stunt Display team got themselves quite a few minutes of Air time,---- check out Pics. Brilliant!!.
Great Day out. Thats the Airbus Industries A-380 Demonstrator in last Pic. and did he throw that around, reminded me of Gus in the B26.--lol.
The band were playing the theme music from "The great Escape" Film when I took this picture and folks were looking at me like I was odd, jigging around to the music---lol. very atmospheric !!!
Bill T.