Farnborough Day One

A red arrows and Vulcan flypast at Farnborough on a rather dull day. Luckily at this point it was not raining, but a most other points it was!

Sadly, this is a recession Farnborough. There is very little new stuff in the helicopter world and many of the big players have given only a token appearance.  One of the journalists reckoned this is the start of a slow decline because there is so little new technology.... let's hope he is wrong and that as the economy gets stronger we have a burst of new aviation dreams!

There were some interesting things though, and this included the Virgin space traveller. See more in Helicopter Life Autumn issue.