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The UK Airshow Review Podcast is an informal chat between the UKAR writing team that originally came about as a response to the effects that the COVID-19 crisis had on the UK airshow scene. We talk about our thoughts and feelings on the British airshow world, invoke memories and reflections from our experiences of the airshow and aviation hobby and offer informed - and not so informed - opinions on the goings-on in the industry.
We also host the series Display Frequency, some nine episodes of incisive, professional interview and analysis of the airshow industry hosted and produced by former UKAR Staff member Dan O’Hagan, a global sports broadcaster and Senior Commentator at the Royal International Air Tattoo from 2009-2012.
To read our reports, features and interviews from back when airshows were a thing, head to https://www.airshows.co.uk
If you want to join the discussion, you can head to our forums at https://forums.airshows.co.uk
We also host the series Display Frequency, some nine episodes of incisive, professional interview and analysis of the airshow industry hosted and produced by former UKAR Staff member Dan O’Hagan, a global sports broadcaster and Senior Commentator at the Royal International Air Tattoo from 2009-2012.
To read our reports, features and interviews from back when airshows were a thing, head to https://www.airshows.co.uk
If you want to join the discussion, you can head to our forums at https://forums.airshows.co.uk
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For episode 99 we are joined by great friend of UKAR and the podcast, commercial and private pilot, obscure aircraft enjoyer and airshow participant, Paul Gibbs! If you don't know him by name, you will surely know him by plane - the owner and pilot of the Trago Mills SAH-1 and Tipsy Nipper T.66 that have attended UK shows as well as a pilot with AirTask who attended RIAT 2025 with the F406 and Dash-8-100.
We chat to Paul about his surprisingly remarkable flying career and the types he's flown, but frankly we'll be having him again on the podcast because we barely touched half of what we wanted to chat about. Watch this space!
It's been a couple of weeks, we've relaxed, we've recuperated, we've recovered, we've deleted all our blurry, out-of-focus shots, and now we're here to round up the highs and lows of RIAT 2025.
To read our reports, features and interviews from years past, head to www.airshows.co.uk
If you want to join the discussion, you can head to our forums at forums.airshows.co.uk
All views and opinions expressed are those of the individuals and not their employers.
The forecast is dire, but the chat is pure fire. It's our long awaited and much-demanded RIAT 2025 preview. We chat about the banger of a final update and what we're looking forward to seeing the most. Enjoy this on you drive over!
If there's some annoying fan noise in the background, we make no apologies for podding in a heatwave.
To read our reports, features and interviews from years past, head to www.airshows.co.uk
If you want to join the discussion, you can head to our forums at forums.airshows.co.uk
All views and opinions expressed are those of the individuals and not their employers.
It's nearly time for RIAT, and that means Sam has a rant to go on...we talk about the state of accommodation around the show compared with others, and chat about some airshow updates. RIAT preview next week!
To read our reports, features and interviews from years past, head to www.airshows.co.uk
If you want to join the discussion, you can head to our forums at forums.airshows.co.uk
All views and opinions expressed are those of the individuals and not their employers.
A nice, tidy, does what it says on the tin airshow review episode: Dom recounts the Shuttleworth Festival of Flight, probably one of the airshows of the year, and Tom tells us (a bit belatedly) about his trip to celebrate the 100th anniversary of BAN Hyeres on the south coast of France (not a bit jealous).
To read our reports, features and interviews from years past, head to www.airshows.co.uk
If you want to join the discussion, you can head to our forums at forums.airshows.co.uk
All views and opinions expressed are those of the individuals and not their employers.
UKAR Staffer, occasional podcast guest and all round great northerner Nigel Watson joins us to talk about the RAF's last airshow, RAF Cosford Air Show. We also go over a handful of airshow updates!
To read our reports, features and interviews from years past, head to www.airshows.co.uk
If you want to join the discussion, you can head to our forums at forums.airshows.co.uk
All views and opinions expressed are those of the individuals and not their employers.
In this...surprising episode, Ian tells us about his weekend jolly to Miami for the Hyundai Air and Sea Show, which he told literally none of us about, and then we cover the Shuttleworth Military show and the Midlands Air Festival!
To read our reports, features and interviews from years past, head to www.airshows.co.uk
If you want to join the discussion, you can head to our forums at forums.airshows.co.uk
All views and opinions expressed are those of the individuals and not their employers.
Heads up: this episode is 2 hours long. We decided to just get it all out in one go rather than go on to a third part, so maybe take this one in a couple of sessions. But it's worth it at the end! Join us as Dan and Sam talk about the rest of their recent trip to the USA. Note to self: don't let Dan drive.
To read our reports, features and interviews from years past, head to www.airshows.co.uk
If you want to join the discussion, you can head to our forums at forums.airshows.co.uk
All views and opinions expressed are those of the individuals and not their employers.
Dan and Sam recently got their feet wet and tell us all about their recent trip to the USA. Or at least, half of it as they ended up having a lot to say. Part 2 to follow!
To read our reports, features and interviews from years past, head to www.airshows.co.uk
If you want to join the discussion, you can head to our forums at forums.airshows.co.uk
All views and opinions expressed are those of the individuals and not their employers.
In episode 90 of our podcast, Dan, Sam and Dom look just two weeks ahead to the start of the 2025 UK airshow season, covering what's been announced so far and what might be coming up this year!
To read our reports, features and interviews from years past, head to www.airshows.co.uk
If you want to join the discussion, you can head to our forums at forums.airshows.co.uk
All views and opinions expressed are those of the individuals and not their employers.
Nearly a full house this episode with Tom, Sam, Dan and Dom giving you a roundup of some of the announcement highlights of recent weeks, before having a discussion, perhaps better coded as a rant, about the general perception of helicopters at airshows among the public.
To read our reports, features and interviews from years past, head to www.airshows.co.uk
If you want to join the discussion, you can head to our forums at forums.airshows.co.uk
All views and opinions expressed are those of the individuals and not their employers.
Sam and Dom are joined by Ben Dunnell, Aeroplane Magazine editor and leading airshow commentator, who returns to the podcast after nearly five years! We have a catch-up on how things have been in his world since the pandemic, what his highlights have been of the airshows we've had since then, as well as chat about the excellent, must-have RIAT 50th Anniversary book which Ben put together for the show's Golden Jubilee in 2021.
To read our reports, features and interviews from years past, head to www.airshows.co.uk
If you want to join the discussion, you can head to our forums at forums.airshows.co.uk
All views and opinions expressed are those of the individuals and not their employers.
Dom, Ian and Sam chat about the first updates for the 2025 airshow season!
To read our reports, features and interviews from years past, head to www.airshows.co.uk
If you want to join the discussion, you can head to our forums at forums.airshows.co.uk
All views and opinions expressed are those of the individuals and not their employers.
We're back for the first episode of 2025. As well as inane banter around this episode's Teams backgrounds, we talk about our aviation-related gift hauls over Christmas (or lack of), a round up of airshow news, and Sam shows us models that the listeners can't see. We're sure this way of podcasting will catch on soon.
To read our reports, features and interviews from years past, head to www.airshows.co.uk
If you want to join the discussion, you can head to our forums at forums.airshows.co.uk
All views and opinions expressed are those of the individuals and not their employers.
Following the success of our recently added segment "what's in the photo behind us that the listeners can't see?", we decided to, accidentally, expand it out into an entire episode. We learn about Dom's Cub, Dan's Greyhound, Tom's Tiger and Sam's Mighty Dragon (quiet down at the back!), with some sprinkling of chat and experiences alongside.
To read our reports, features and interviews from years past, head to www.airshows.co.uk
If you want to join the discussion, you can head to our forums at forums.airshows.co.uk
All views and opinions expressed are those of the individuals and not their employers.
Having discussed at length on the podcast the controversial changes to the enthusiast's FRIAT package over the last few years, we gave the Royal International Air Tattoo's organising team the opportunity to join us for an episode and put forward their side of the story and explain to us why they have brough these changes in and what they see as the future of the FRIAT package.
For this episode, Sam and Tom chat with Simon Hough, Head of Customer Experience and Peter Reoch, Head of Air Operations, to understand why the FRIAT experience has been changed and what it might look like in future years.
To read our reports, features and interviews from years past, head to www.airshows.co.uk
If you want to join the discussion, you can head to our forums at forums.airshows.co.uk
All views and opinions expressed are those of the individuals and not their employers.
The gang talk about the RIAT 2025 theme of "Eyes in the Skies", some updates for the season next year and some unfortunate news that's his the airshow world recently. We also try out a new format at the top of the episode.
To read our reports, features and interviews from years past, head to www.airshows.co.uk
If you want to join the discussion, you can head to our forums at forums.airshows.co.uk
All views and opinions expressed are those of the individuals and not their employers.
After much internal discussion, we're debating whether we think social media in general and Facebook in particular has actually been a net positive or net negative for this hobby. We all have pros and cons and we put them out there. We also have a bit of a rant about the state of food at airshows these days
To read our reports, features and interviews from years past, head to www.airshows.co.uk
If you want to join the discussion, you can head to our forums at forums.airshows.co.uk
All views and opinions expressed are those of the individuals and not their employers.
It's been a while since our last episode, but we're back, with reviews a-plenty for your listening delight! Dom gives us his take on Cosby's Victory Show, Dan tells us about the International Ayr Show and Tom recounts his trip to Bucharest International Airshow (without bias!).
To read our reports, features and interviews from years past, head to www.airshows.co.uk
If you want to join the discussion, you can head to our forums at forums.airshows.co.uk
All views and opinions expressed are those of the individuals and not their employers.
We're back for our annual RIAT preview episode. We round up what we're looking forward to the most, how we think the show is going to go and what we think the weather is going to be like...
Sadly, however, a shadow is cast over this episode by the very late announcement of the changes to the FRIAT 2025 grandstand, which we discuss and heavily criticise.
To read our reports, features and interviews from years past, head to www.airshows.co.uk
If you want to join the discussion, you can head to our forums at forums.airshows.co.uk
All views and opinions expressed are those of the individuals and not their employers.
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