#airshow — Public Fediverse posts

The countdown to #Airshow #China 2026 has begun in Zhuhai, with the 16th China #International Aviation & Aerospace Exhibition scheduled for December 7–13, 2026. A #launch #event held on August 28 marked the beginning of the #exhibition’s 100-day #countdown and its 30th-anniversary programme. The official countdown started on August 29, when #landmarks across #Zhuhai were illuminated to #promote the upcoming #aviation and #aerospace #event. https://chinaexpohub.com/airshow-china-2026-enters-100-day-countdown-in-zhuhai/

Egypt Bolsters Drone Arsenal with Loitering Munitions, Interceptors

Egyptian firms made a strong showing at the El Alamein International Airshow, occupying 28 stands to showcase their cutting-edge drone technology and precision-strike capabilities. The event, which drew over 250 exhibitors from 50 countries, highlighted Egypt's growing presence in the global drone market.

https://osintsights.com/egypt-bolsters-drone-arsenal-with-loitering-munitions-interceptors?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

#Egypt #DroneTechnology #LoiteringMunitions #UnmannedAircraft #Airshow

The People's Choice: Naming the Snowbirds

Canada’s iconic Snowbirds weren't named by the military. After their 1971 season, a contest was held at a CFB Moose Jaw elementary school, with 'Snowbirds' as the winning entry. The team, officially 431 Air Demonstration Squadron, began as a temporary base flying club, but public adoration secured their permanent status as a national icon. #Canada #Snowbirds #RCAF #Aviation #AirShow 🇨🇦

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowbirds_(aerobatic_team)

The People's Choice: Naming the Snowbirds

Canada’s iconic Snowbirds weren't named by the military. After their 1971 season, a contest was held at a CFB Moose Jaw elementary school, with 'Snowbirds' as the winning entry. The team, officially 431 Air Demonstration Squadron, began as a temporary base flying club, but public adoration secured their permanent status as a national icon. #Canada #Snowbirds #RCAF #Aviation #AirShow 🇨🇦

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowbirds_(aerobatic_team)

The People's Choice: Naming the Snowbirds

Canada’s iconic Snowbirds weren't named by the military. After their 1971 season, a contest was held at a CFB Moose Jaw elementary school, with 'Snowbirds' as the winning entry. The team, officially 431 Air Demonstration Squadron, began as a temporary base flying club, but public adoration secured their permanent status as a national icon. #Canada #Snowbirds #RCAF #Aviation #AirShow 🇨🇦

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowbirds_(aerobatic_team)

The People's Choice: Naming the Snowbirds

Canada’s iconic Snowbirds weren't named by the military. After their 1971 season, a contest was held at a CFB Moose Jaw elementary school, with 'Snowbirds' as the winning entry. The team, officially 431 Air Demonstration Squadron, began as a temporary base flying club, but public adoration secured their permanent status as a national icon. #Canada #Snowbirds #RCAF #Aviation #AirShow 🇨🇦

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowbirds_(aerobatic_team)

The People's Choice: Naming the Snowbirds

Canada’s iconic Snowbirds weren't named by the military. After their 1971 season, a contest was held at a CFB Moose Jaw elementary school, with 'Snowbirds' as the winning entry. The team, officially 431 Air Demonstration Squadron, began as a temporary base flying club, but public adoration secured their permanent status as a national icon. #Canada #Snowbirds #RCAF #Aviation #AirShow 🇨🇦

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowbirds_(aerobatic_team)

The countdown to #Airshow #China 2026 has begun in Zhuhai, with the 16th China #International Aviation & Aerospace Exhibition scheduled for December 7–13, 2026. A #launch #event held on August 28 marked the beginning of the #exhibition’s 100-day #countdown and its 30th-anniversary programme. The official countdown started on August 29, when #landmarks across #Zhuhai were illuminated to #promote the upcoming #aviation and #aerospace #event. https://chinaexpohub.com/airshow-china-2026-enters-100-day-countdown-in-zhuhai/

The countdown to #Airshow #China 2026 has begun in Zhuhai, with the 16th China #International Aviation & Aerospace Exhibition scheduled for December 7–13, 2026. A #launch #event held on August 28 marked the beginning of the #exhibition’s 100-day #countdown and its 30th-anniversary programme. The official countdown started on August 29, when #landmarks across #Zhuhai were illuminated to #promote the upcoming #aviation and #aerospace #event. https://chinaexpohub.com/airshow-china-2026-enters-100-day-countdown-in-zhuhai/

The countdown to #Airshow #China 2026 has begun in Zhuhai, with the 16th China #International Aviation & Aerospace Exhibition scheduled for December 7–13, 2026. A #launch #event held on August 28 marked the beginning of the #exhibition’s 100-day #countdown and its 30th-anniversary programme. The official countdown started on August 29, when #landmarks across #Zhuhai were illuminated to #promote the upcoming #aviation and #aerospace #event. https://chinaexpohub.com/airshow-china-2026-enters-100-day-countdown-in-zhuhai/

Photo Of The Day 10th September 2026.

https://mancavgeek.co.uk/2026/09/10/photo-of-the-day-10th-september-2026/

Photo Of The Day 8th September 2026.

https://mancavgeek.co.uk/2026/09/08/photo-of-the-day-8th-september-2026/

Photo Of The Day 6th September 2026.

https://mancavgeek.co.uk/2026/09/06/photo-of-the-day-6th-september-2026/

Photo Of The Day 30th August 2026.

https://mancavgeek.co.uk/2026/08/30/photo-of-the-day-30th-august-2026/

Photo Of The Day 26th August 2026.

https://mancavgeek.co.uk/2026/08/26/photo-of-the-day-26th-august-2026/

Photo Of The Day 22nd August 2026.

https://mancavgeek.co.uk/2026/08/22/photo-of-the-day-22nd-august-2026/

Photo Of The Day 8th August 2026.

https://mancavgeek.co.uk/2026/08/08/photo-of-the-day-8th-august-2026/

Photo Of The Day 8th August 2026.

https://mancavgeek.co.uk/2026/08/08/photo-of-the-day-8th-august-2026/

Photo Of The Day 8th August 2026.

https://mancavgeek.co.uk/2026/08/08/photo-of-the-day-8th-august-2026/

Photo Of The Day 8th August 2026.

https://mancavgeek.co.uk/2026/08/08/photo-of-the-day-8th-august-2026/

Photo Of The Day 8th August 2026.

https://mancavgeek.co.uk/2026/08/08/photo-of-the-day-8th-august-2026/

Photo Of The Day 24th July 2026.

https://mancavgeek.co.uk/2026/07/24/photo-of-the-day-24th-july-2026/

“ISRAELI ARMS FIRMS THREATEN JOURNALISTS AT UK AIRSHOW”

by Phil Miller, Alex Morris and Hannah Johara Dokal in Declassified UK

@Declassified_UK
@DeclassifiedUK
@uk_politics
@[email protected]
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@iran
@iraq
@palestinenews

“Amid the Gaza genocide, Farnborough airshow invited Israel’s three largest arms firms. None wanted media scrutiny”

[..]

“One [Israel Arrospace Industries] #IAI security guard followed Declassified and demanded to see our media passes so he could ‘report us to the police’.

Facial recognition software indicates that the security guard, who was not displaying his own pass, resembles a man who has worked for Israel’s version of MI5, the Shin#Bet”

https://www.declassifieduk.org/israeli-arms-firms-threaten-journalists-at-uk-airshow/

#Press #SocialMedia #Journalism #UK #Farnborough #Airshow #Elbit #ElbitSystems #Rafael #BattleTested #Israel #Genocide #PalestinianGenocide #Gaza #CAAT

Manchester Monday 20th July 2026.

https://mancavgeek.co.uk/2026/07/20/manchester-monday-20th-july-2026/

Photo Of The Day 15th July 2026.

https://mancavgeek.co.uk/2026/07/15/photo-of-the-day-15th-july-2026/

Manchester Monday 13th July 2026.

https://mancavgeek.co.uk/2026/07/13/manchester-monday-13th-july-2026/

Large-scale flyovers without proper notice are rude–and an insult to avgeeks

The past two days have featured some of the most impressive airshow performances in D.C. skies in years–but I, a card-carrying avgeek, saw almost none of them. I’m blaming that on the Trump administration, and I don’t think I’m wrong.

Wednesday night, I missed all but the end of a flyover that concluded with a B-2 bomber accompanied by a formation of F-35 fighters–I heard the roar of the smaller jets as I was exiting a grocery store but only saw one or two reflected in the windows of an office building across the street. Thursday afternoon, I didn’t catch any of an unusual grouping of two B-52s and pairs of F-15s, F/A-18s and F-35s.

I was in the wrong place twice (which is why I’m illustrating this post with a picture of an F-16 formation over Nationals Park before 2025’s home opener) because the organizers of the Freedom 250 series of events on the Malls did not specify flight times in their announcement of these flyovers.

The people running this decidedly partisan event also didn’t use their X account to offer updates on flyover scheduling. I should have instead checked photographer and aviation enthusiast Andrew Leyden, who has been relaying updates there.

(He’s also on Bluesky but not repeating everything that he posts on X, to my dismay.)

From looking at Reddit, I see that I have company in being perplexed by the lack of a heads-up and wondering why there’s no published schedule. It appears that I’ll continue to be left guessing over the remaining days of flyovers–through July 10.

That’s not how this is supposed to work: People on the ground deserve to know when they’ll see their taxpayer dollars in action like this. They don’t have to be total aerospace nerds to appreciate a demonstration of engineering in action–and the piloting skills required to fly so precisely.

And even if folks on the ground somehow have zero interest in aviation, they still might want to know when not to schedule a call to avoid people on the other end thinking they’re about to be on the receiving end of an airstrike.

We know how to do this correctly. I can plan to watch for Arlington National Cemetery flyovers in support of military funerals because I get a text and an e-mail a few days before from the District’s AlertDC system; although those alerts had grown spotty by the time I wrote an explainer about flyovers for Greater Greater Washington in 2023, they’ve been much more reliable recently.

For more involved aerial performances, organizers have even fewer reasons to leave people guessing. The May 8, 2025 “Arsenal of Democracy” flyover that commemorated the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe had a starting time of 12:10 p.m. published weeks in advance. And six years ago, even in the middle of pandemic-induced chaos, we knew when to step outside to watch the July 4, 2020 flyovers above the Mall that Trump ordered up because those, too, came with a start time published three days before.

This is far from the worst example of the second Trump administration falling below the low standards of the first one, but it belongs somewhere on that list.

Large-scale flyovers without proper notice are rude–and an insult to avgeeks

The past two days have featured some of the most impressive airshow performances in D.C. skies in years–but I, a card-carrying avgeek, saw almost none of them. I’m blaming that on the Trump administration, and I don’t think I’m wrong.

Wednesday night, I missed all but the end of a flyover that concluded with a B-2 bomber accompanied by a formation of F-35 fighters–I heard the roar of the smaller jets as I was exiting a grocery store but only saw one or two reflected in the windows of an office building across the street. Thursday afternoon, I didn’t catch any of an unusual grouping of two B-52s and pairs of F-15s, F/A-18s and F-35s.

I was in the wrong place twice (which is why I’m illustrating this post with a picture of an F-16 formation over Nationals Park before 2025’s home opener) because the organizers of the Freedom 250 series of events on the Malls did not specify flight times in their announcement of these flyovers.

The people running this decidedly partisan event also didn’t use their X account to offer updates on flyover scheduling. I should have instead checked photographer and aviation enthusiast Andrew Leyden, who has been relaying updates there.

(He’s also on Bluesky but not repeating everything that he posts on X, to my dismay.)

From looking at Reddit, I see that I have company in being perplexed by the lack of a heads-up and wondering why there’s no published schedule. It appears that I’ll continue to be left guessing over the remaining days of flyovers–through July 10.

That’s not how this is supposed to work: People on the ground deserve to know when they’ll see their taxpayer dollars in action like this. They don’t have to be total aerospace nerds to appreciate a demonstration of engineering in action–and the piloting skills required to fly so precisely.

And even if folks on the ground somehow have zero interest in aviation, they still might want to know when not to schedule a call to avoid people on the other end thinking they’re about to be on the receiving end of an airstrike.

We know how to do this correctly. I can plan to watch for Arlington National Cemetery flyovers in support of military funerals because I get a text and an e-mail a few days before from the District’s AlertDC system; although those alerts had grown spotty by the time I wrote an explainer about flyovers for Greater Greater Washington in 2023, they’ve been much more reliable recently.

For more involved aerial performances, organizers have even fewer reasons to leave people guessing. The May 8, 2025 “Arsenal of Democracy” flyover that commemorated the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe had a starting time of 12:10 p.m. published weeks in advance. And six years ago, even in the middle of pandemic-induced chaos, we knew when to step outside to watch the July 4, 2020 flyovers above the Mall that Trump ordered up because those, too, came with a start time published three days before.

This is far from the worst example of the second Trump administration falling below the low standards of the first one, but it belongs somewhere on that list.

Large-scale flyovers without proper notice are rude–and an insult to avgeeks

The past two days have featured some of the most impressive airshow performances in D.C. skies in years–but I, a card-carrying avgeek, saw almost none of them. I’m blaming that on the Trump administration, and I don’t think I’m wrong.

Wednesday night, I missed all but the end of a flyover that concluded with a B-2 bomber accompanied by a formation of F-35 fighters–I heard the roar of the smaller jets as I was exiting a grocery store but only saw one or two reflected in the windows of an office building across the street. Thursday afternoon, I didn’t catch any of an unusual grouping of two B-52s and pairs of F-15s, F/A-18s and F-35s.

I was in the wrong place twice (which is why I’m illustrating this post with a picture of an F-16 formation over Nationals Park before 2025’s home opener) because the organizers of the Freedom 250 series of events on the Malls did not specify flight times in their announcement of these flyovers.

The people running this decidedly partisan event also didn’t use their X account to offer updates on flyover scheduling. I should have instead checked photographer and aviation enthusiast Andrew Leyden, who has been relaying updates there.

(He’s also on Bluesky but not repeating everything that he posts on X, to my dismay.)

From looking at Reddit, I see that I have company in being perplexed by the lack of a heads-up and wondering why there’s no published schedule. It appears that I’ll continue to be left guessing over the remaining days of flyovers–through July 10.

That’s not how this is supposed to work: People on the ground deserve to know when they’ll see their taxpayer dollars in action like this. They don’t have to be total aerospace nerds to appreciate a demonstration of engineering in action–and the piloting skills required to fly so precisely.

And even if folks on the ground somehow have zero interest in aviation, they still might want to know when not to schedule a call to avoid people on the other end thinking they’re about to be on the receiving end of an airstrike.

We know how to do this correctly. I can plan to watch for Arlington National Cemetery flyovers in support of military funerals because I get a text and an e-mail a few days before from the District’s AlertDC system; although those alerts had grown spotty by the time I wrote an explainer about flyovers for Greater Greater Washington in 2023, they’ve been much more reliable recently.

For more involved aerial performances, organizers have even fewer reasons to leave people guessing. The May 8, 2025 “Arsenal of Democracy” flyover that commemorated the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe had a starting time of 12:10 p.m. published weeks in advance. And six years ago, even in the middle of pandemic-induced chaos, we knew when to step outside to watch the July 4, 2020 flyovers above the Mall that Trump ordered up because those, too, came with a start time published three days before.

This is far from the worst example of the second Trump administration falling below the low standards of the first one, but it belongs somewhere on that list.

Large-scale flyovers without proper notice are rude–and an insult to avgeeks

The past two days have featured some of the most impressive airshow performances in D.C. skies in years–but I, a card-carrying avgeek, saw almost none of them. I’m blaming that on the Trump administration, and I don’t think I’m wrong.

Wednesday night, I missed all but the end of a flyover that concluded with a B-2 bomber accompanied by a formation of F-35 fighters–I heard the roar of the smaller jets as I was exiting a grocery store but only saw one or two reflected in the windows of an office building across the street. Thursday afternoon, I didn’t catch any of an unusual grouping of two B-52s and pairs of F-15s, F/A-18s and F-35s.

I was in the wrong place twice (which is why I’m illustrating this post with a picture of an F-16 formation over Nationals Park before 2025’s home opener) because the organizers of the Freedom 250 series of events on the Malls did not specify flight times in their announcement of these flyovers.

The people running this decidedly partisan event also didn’t use their X account to offer updates on flyover scheduling. I should have instead checked photographer and aviation enthusiast Andrew Leyden, who has been relaying updates there.

(He’s also on Bluesky but not repeating everything that he posts on X, to my dismay.)

From looking at Reddit, I see that I have company in being perplexed by the lack of a heads-up and wondering why there’s no published schedule. It appears that I’ll continue to be left guessing over the remaining days of flyovers–through July 10.

That’s not how this is supposed to work: People on the ground deserve to know when they’ll see their taxpayer dollars in action like this. They don’t have to be total aerospace nerds to appreciate a demonstration of engineering in action–and the piloting skills required to fly so precisely.

And even if folks on the ground somehow have zero interest in aviation, they still might want to know when not to schedule a call to avoid people on the other end thinking they’re about to be on the receiving end of an airstrike.

We know how to do this correctly. I can plan to watch for Arlington National Cemetery flyovers in support of military funerals because I get a text and an e-mail a few days before from the District’s AlertDC system; although those alerts had grown spotty by the time I wrote an explainer about flyovers for Greater Greater Washington in 2023, they’ve been much more reliable recently.

For more involved aerial performances, organizers have even fewer reasons to leave people guessing. The May 8, 2025 “Arsenal of Democracy” flyover that commemorated the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe had a starting time of 12:10 p.m. published weeks in advance. And six years ago, even in the middle of pandemic-induced chaos, we knew when to step outside to watch the July 4, 2020 flyovers above the Mall that Trump ordered up because those, too, came with a start time published three days before.

This is far from the worst example of the second Trump administration falling below the low standards of the first one, but it belongs somewhere on that list.

Photo of the Day 9th June 2026.

https://mancavgeek.co.uk/2026/06/09/photo-of-the-day-9th-june-2026/

Photo of the Day 17th May 2026.

https://mancavgeek.co.uk/2026/05/17/photo-of-the-day-17th-may-2026/

Manchester Monday 27th April 2026.

https://mancavgeek.co.uk/2026/04/27/manchester-monday-27th-april-2026/

Photo of the Day 22nd April 2026.

https://mancavgeek.co.uk/2026/04/22/photo-of-the-day-22nd-april-2026/

Manchester Monday 30th March 2026.

https://mancavgeek.co.uk/2026/03/30/manchester-monday-30th-march-2026/

Photo of the Day 11th March 2026.

https://mancavgeek.co.uk/2026/03/11/photo-of-the-day-11th-march-2026/

Photo of the Day 6th March 2026.

https://mancavgeek.co.uk/2026/03/06/photo-of-the-day-6th-march-2026/

Photo of the Day 27thFebruary 2026.

https://mancavgeek.co.uk/2026/02/27/photo-of-the-day-27thfebruary-2026/

Photo of the Day 22nd January 2026.

https://mancavgeek.co.uk/2026/01/22/photo-of-the-day-22nd-january-2026/

Photo of the Day 18th January 2026.

https://mancavgeek.co.uk/2026/01/18/photo-of-the-day-18th-january-2026/

Photo of the Day 10th January 2026.

https://mancavgeek.co.uk/2026/01/10/photo-of-the-day-10th-january-2026/

Photo of the Day 7th December 2024.

Gat On A Sat 7th December 2024.

Bonus Photo of the Day 7th December 2024.

#a330 #airbus #airshow #AirTransat #avgeek #aviation #c130 #egcc #egkk #f50 #Fairford #ffd #fokker #GatOnASat #gatwick #hercules #iat #InternationalAirtattoo #lgw #lockheed #london #lufthansa #man #manchester #photography #PhotoOfTheDay #planespotting #raf #RoyalAirForce #Runway28Right

Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor #photography #highlight #sky #airplane #plane #outdoor #aircraft #militaryaircraft #jetaircraft #airforce #transport #airtravel #aviation #fighteraircraft #airshow #flight #wing #vehicle #aerospaceengineering #supersonicaircraft #jet #groundattackaircraft #aerospacemanufacturer #generalaviation (Flickr 13.05.2017) https://www.flickr.com/photos/7489441@N06/52529236588

Photo of the Day 3rd December 2024.

Tails Tuesday 3rd December 2024.

Bonus Photo of the Day 3rd November 2024.

#airshow #airtours #AlphaJet #avgeek #aviation #b737 #boeing #dassault #dornier #DUB #Dublin #egcc #EIDW #Fairford #ffd #man #manchester #McDonnellDouglas #md83 #PatrouilleDeFrance #photography #planespotting #Runway28Right #ryanair #TailsTuesday

https://mancavgeek.co.uk/2024/09/25/photo-of-the-day-25th-september-2024/

#AerLingus #airshow #Anson #atr72 #avgeek #aviation #avro #b767 #balaircta #boeing #DeHaviland #DH82 #egcc #egcd #egll #EGVA #Fairford #ffd #Finningley #FNY #GulfAir #heathrow #hercules #InternationalAirtattoo #KuwaitAirForce #l100 #L5 #lhr #lockheed #london #man #manchester #McDonnellDouglas #MD82 #photography #planespotting #raf #RoyalAirForce #Runway05Left #swissair #TigerMoth #woodford

https://mancavgeek.co.uk/2024/09/18/photo-of-the-day-18th-september-2024/

#A319 #airbus #AirCanada #AirCorbiere #airshow #avgeek #aviation #B787 #boeing #BrusselsAirlines #CFD #Collinstown #Cosford #Coventry #CVT #DeHaviland #DH89 #Dragon #dreamliner #DUB #Dublin #EGBE #egcc #egsx #EGVA #EGWC #EIDW #f27 #F27FriendshipAssociation #Fairford #ffd #FighterMeet #fokker #friendship #Gladiator #Gloster #iat #InternationalAirtattoo #Javelin #man #manchester #Metro #museum #northweald #photography #planespotting #raf #RAFMuseum #rapide #RoyalAirForce #Runway23Left #SA227 #Sewaringen #southside

https://mancavgeek.co.uk/2024/09/17/tails-tuesday-17th-september-2024/

#a320 #AerLingus #airbus #airshow #avgeek #aviation #avp #B60 #b747 #b777 #Beech #BlackpoolAirport #blk #boeing #Collinstown #DUB #Dublin #Duke #egcc #eggp #egnh #EIDW #Finningley #FNY #Hangar42 #liverpool #lockheed #lpl #man #manchester #Martinair #museum #NEO #OnThisDay #Orion #P3 #photography #planespotting #QatarAirways #raf #RoyalAirForce #Runway23Right #speke #spitfire #SpitfireVisitorCentre #supermarine #SwordsRoad #TailsTuesday #UnitedStatesNavy #USN

https://mancavgeek.co.uk/2024/09/17/tails-tuesday-17th-september-2024/

#a320 #AerLingus #airbus #airshow #avgeek #aviation #avp #B60 #b747 #b777 #Beech #BlackpoolAirport #blk #boeing #Collinstown #DUB #Dublin #Duke #egcc #eggp #egnh #EIDW #Finningley #FNY #Hangar42 #liverpool #lockheed #lpl #man #manchester #Martinair #museum #NEO #OnThisDay #Orion #P3 #photography #planespotting #QatarAirways #raf #RoyalAirForce #Runway23Right #speke #spitfire #SpitfireVisitorCentre #supermarine #SwordsRoad #TailsTuesday #UnitedStatesNavy #USN

https://mancavgeek.co.uk/2024/09/17/tails-tuesday-17th-september-2024/

#a320 #AerLingus #airbus #airshow #avgeek #aviation #avp #B60 #b747 #b777 #Beech #BlackpoolAirport #blk #boeing #Collinstown #DUB #Dublin #Duke #egcc #eggp #egnh #EIDW #Finningley #FNY #Hangar42 #liverpool #lockheed #lpl #man #manchester #Martinair #museum #NEO #OnThisDay #Orion #P3 #photography #planespotting #QatarAirways #raf #RoyalAirForce #Runway23Right #speke #spitfire #SpitfireVisitorCentre #supermarine #SwordsRoad #TailsTuesday #UnitedStatesNavy #USN