"D. St-Sanvain" wrote in message
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Hi,

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Nice pictures. Please excuse my ignorance, but what is "RIAT"? I assume
Fairford is the city or location for the airshow, but I'm not up on the
acronyms. Thanks.

RIAT stands for "Royal International Air Tattoo" :
http://www.rafcte.com/

What he said.

To expand a little, the Royal International Air Tattoo is the big annual
airshow in the UK, held at RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire (used by the USAF
to base B52s from time to time and also one of the designated emergency
landing strip for the Space Shuttle).

Fairford itself is a small town a couple of miles north of the airfield,
located he

http://www.multimap.com/maps/#t=l&map=51.70736,-1.77548|7|4&loc=GB:51.70736:-1.77548:14|fairford|Fairford,%20GL7%204

Customarily the show has been held over the third weekend in July but this
year it was held on 14/15 July. Just as well it was a week earlier, since
there's a lot of flooding in the area at the moment, and a couple of hundred
thousand extra visitors wouldn't help matters at all.


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Dave

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