An airshow with a pun
Sep. 11th, 2023 10:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mtbcHolding the aerial displays out to sea, to be best viewed from Ayr beach, apparently made the appellation International Ayr Show irresistible. American airshows feature more of an abundance of modern military aircraft but, especially with paying only for car parking, there was still enough at this air show to make it well worth our going.
The Red Arrows were probably the main attraction. I hadn't known that Army people would be parachuting (that part over land, of course). My favourite, also popular with the crowd, was the Eurofighter Typhoon, which showed off some manoeuvring, we saw that both on the Friday and the Saturday. I also liked the Chinook, I hadn't realized quite how agile they can be, it made me wonder quite what the controls look like for a twin-rotor helicopter.
We were lucky with the weather. Friday evening's displays had the sunset as a scenic backdrop. Saturday's forecast had seemed mixed, there was rain later on, and on the following morning. At times when we most wanted not to be rained on, the clouds kindly obliged.
Traffic was fairly dreadful. Roads approaching and leaving Ayr were understandably congested. Perhaps more preventably, the car park at Belleisle Park seemed poorly managed, exiting was somewhat anarchic and took a very long time. The traffic was not directed well and some of the queues of vehicles trapped in the car park moved extremely slowly. I wondered if those using the car park at Ayr Racecourse fared any better.
Update: The traffic and car parking issues made the local news, with accounts of drivers being stuck in car parks for hours.
The Red Arrows were probably the main attraction. I hadn't known that Army people would be parachuting (that part over land, of course). My favourite, also popular with the crowd, was the Eurofighter Typhoon, which showed off some manoeuvring, we saw that both on the Friday and the Saturday. I also liked the Chinook, I hadn't realized quite how agile they can be, it made me wonder quite what the controls look like for a twin-rotor helicopter.
We were lucky with the weather. Friday evening's displays had the sunset as a scenic backdrop. Saturday's forecast had seemed mixed, there was rain later on, and on the following morning. At times when we most wanted not to be rained on, the clouds kindly obliged.
Traffic was fairly dreadful. Roads approaching and leaving Ayr were understandably congested. Perhaps more preventably, the car park at Belleisle Park seemed poorly managed, exiting was somewhat anarchic and took a very long time. The traffic was not directed well and some of the queues of vehicles trapped in the car park moved extremely slowly. I wondered if those using the car park at Ayr Racecourse fared any better.
Update: The traffic and car parking issues made the local news, with accounts of drivers being stuck in car parks for hours.
