What a week!!

Where do I begin?? I am not sure because I am not sure where my week should begin! But lets start with the Biggin Hill Air Fair. This is a large air show south of London that I went to on Saturday with Shaun. As we arrived we were treated to a Spitfighter and a Eurofighter Typhoon taking off. They then flew a couple of circuits of the airfield together before the Typhoon eased right off into this incredibly slow turn while the Spitfire raced away. They tried to play catchup and did a few tricks, the Typhoon going as close to the speed of sound as possible without letting off a sonic boom. You can see a cheesy video of the eurofighter here.

There were a few highlights for me...

• The propeller stunt planes.
• The Red Arrows (RAF acrobatics team).
• The RAF display of "capturing" the airfield.
• Helicopter backflips!

Bullet points don't really do them justice, so watch the videos. I also saw a Chinook land just 50 meters from me, what an impressive machine!! If anything shouldn't fly it is that helicopter but fly it does! This video while not from Biggin Hill shows some seriously impressive flying in the second half!

Here is some Youtube footage of some of the planes at Biggin Hill.

Also this week has been a documentary on Diana, showing some B&W, grainy photos of the accident. Whatever people think there were only 3 things that killed her that night, and everyone knows them. Speed, Alcohol, and no wearing a seatbelt. Pretty simple really.

And then there was President Putin (of Russia, a lot of people don't seem to know this!), who has decided to target his missile's at Europe, for something America is doing!!! Albeit the US is doing it in Europe, so maybe his motives are for Europe to push back on the US. But anyway, its all irrelevant. Like Nuclear missile's can't be re targeted in seconds anyway. Hell I think they can be re targeted while in flight!!

And GO TEAM NEW ZEALAND for getting into the Americas Cup final in Spain!! We'll beat those dastardly Swiss yet!! Since when could the Swiss sail anyway??!