Midland Air Festival

As I mentioned last week, this week's highlight was a visit to the Midlands Air Festival. This was my first visit to this event held at Ragley Hall and i was quite impressed. The flying line up, as noted below, was not bad at all and included the Red Arrows, Sally B, the BBMF, Roll Royce Spitfire and Mustang amongst others. We stopped over about 10 miles away but access was easy, with no queues and ample parking and we had no problems getting out either. There was a decent sized crowd but plenty of room to pitch your chair and the expected food and souvenir outlets were well represented. On top of that the setting was really nice giving the opportunity for some tree lined back drops to some of the displays. We got lucky with the weather as, despite some forecasts being unfavourable, the rain held off until right at the end of the day although the breeze was unfortunately a little too brisk for a planned balloon launch. Sadly the grey light we had for some of the day wasn't great for photography but that the way it goes. Overall though it was an event I would consider doing again. So as an indication of the backdrop I'll start with some shots of the Tiger 9 Team.