Looking forward

The weather has taken a turn for the worse here in the UK, and there would be no way that I could have flown in the last couple of weeks. Still, I am looking ahead.

I would like to attend an airshow or two this year. There is RIAT and Farnborough to look forward to, but they are quite close together this year, so I would only be able to manage one of them. RIAT would probably be my favourite but then Farnborough may have the new Airbus 380 doing a flypast.

Have you seen that giant? The 380 landed at Heathrow last week and it was huge. Is this the way forward for airtravel in the 21st Century? I know that Boeing would have you think otherwise. I am just amazed at the incredible advances that have been made in aviation in the last century. It is incredible to think that flying has only been around for 100 years. We can fly supersonic, although the loss of Concorde was a backward step, in my opinion. We can go to the moon, and we can make helicopter gunships that look as ugly as they are beautiful. It is incredible to look at the multifaceted levels of aviation.