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"D. St-Sanvain" wrote in
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Hi,

HEMI-Powered a écrit :
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).

Very interesting, thank you. I never knew that we parked B-52s in
the UK. I thought they were mainly based in the U.S., Turkey,
places like that. And, I have never heard that there is an
emergency Space Shuttle landing strip anywhere in the UK. I know
there are a number of them, several in the United States, but it
never occurred to me that in a real emergency they might not even
be able to hit something as large as the United States land mass
and would have to set down in another continent.

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.

Thanks for the info!

--
HP, aka Jerry