Riat 2025: Air show's 'spiritual excitement like Glastonbury'
Tim Prince, RIAT's co-founder, said: "Most people go away having seen airplanes from Germany, France and Russia in the past. "From all these different countries with all their difference colours, and their flying overalls and their spirit enthusiasm."It's a bit like Glastonbury. It's that whole spiritual excitement you get."He said the volunteers were "an incredible force to be reckoned with"."They know what to do and when to do it. They work all hours to make things happen."They're not just aircraft enthusiasts, they're just people who love an impossible challenge."To mark its 40th anniversary, visitors submitted pictures and stories of wonderful moments they had over the years to the Royal Air Force Charitable Trust.
One such example was from David Traynor who said he spotted Angie's picture on a dating website with her favourite plane in the background at RIAT in 2019.He messaged her and years later they got married.
Richard Toms said among his most memorable days at RIAT was having an extra 20 minutes inside Concorde while he celebrated his 50th birthday."It was the 26 July 1996 and a supersonic flight on Concorde G-BOAB over the Bay of Biscay," he said."We had an extra 20 minutes added to the flight due to a delay in the flying display over Fairford, so we were treated to a run along the English Channel as far as Beachy Head and back before returning to the the airfield via Lymington."
Russell Powell said his local running club, Fleet and Crookham Athletic Club, would dress up to sell RIAT programmes for charity.
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