Flying High

Hi Readers, In today's Post some issues on Air Displays. Flying high is a thrilling experience. So just have some thrill through these nice stamps issued by UK on 17 July 2008 on Air Displays.One more new issue to thrill you by its beauty i.e.Our Taj on a foreign stamp. In the regular series of Se-tenants some more sets from the album of Shri Shrikant Parikh on Air-crafts. Enjoy the Post & Have a nice Holiday !

Air Displays
Farnborough, in Hampshire, has a long history of involvement with aviation. In fact it probably can claim to have a closer, more continuous association with man’s conquest of the air than anywhere else. On the stamps, here are six images that illustrate just some of the displays enjoyed in the UK.

The Red Arrows: First Class and 50p
A well-loved highlight of national celebrations and airshows both in the UK and abroad, the RAF aerobatic display team, the Red Arrows, feature on both the first class and the 50p stamp. Formed in 1965 as the public face of the RAF and a powerful recruitment vehicle, the Red Arrows dramatically demonstrate the skills of Britain’s finest pilots.

The First Class stamp features the Red Arrows flying at the Dartmouth Air Show in 2006 with their trademark blue and red vapour painting the sky. The 50p stamp features a young fan awe-struck before a classic Red Arrow Hawk aircraft formation fly past.


The RAF Falcons: 48p
The 48p stamp features the RAF Falcons performing one of their breathtaking precision, parachute formation displays at Biggin Hill in 2006. Based at RAF Brize Norton as part of the No1 Parachute Training School, all the Falcons are RAF Parachute Jumping Instructors specifically trained to perform highly skilled freefall and canopy maneuvers at speeds of up to 180mph.
Avro Vulcan Prototypes and Avro 707s -56p
Part of the RAF’s V bomber force acting as a nuclear deterrent against the Soviet Union during the Cold War, the subsonic Avro Vulcan delta wing bomber was operated by the RAF from 1953 until 1984. In this time it was also used as a conventional bomber during the Falklands conflict. Only one example of this type of aircraft remains in flying condition. The Avro 707 was an experimental aircraft built to test the delta wing concept which was later incorporated into the Vulcan. The stamp features a shot of both aircrafts taken at Farnborough in 1953.




WB Moorhouse – 81p
This stamp features a photograph taken in around 1912, featuring the aviator WB Moorhouse flying in an air race at Hendon. Moorhouse went on to become the first pilot to be awarded a Victoria Cross in 1915 during the First World War.

From the Se-tenant Album of Shrikant Parikh

Air-Crafts

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