RIAT 2023

[TeeELL]

Living just 5 miles from RAF Fairford and/or being in Lechlade for the weekend means rushing around to spot the aircraft. Today it hasn’t stopped raining so it looks like nothing much is happening, well I’ve heard nothing!

[iggie]

The BBMF have already announced they won't be flying at RIAT today or tomorrow due to the weather forecast

[PaulBradley]

Just watching a live stream and there isn't much going on at all. Poor spectators - all that money spent, time taken to get there, the anticipation...and the Great British Weather intervenes.....

[TeeELL]

Looks like it will continue to rain through Saturday as well. There might be a break in the weather this evening.

[iggie]

The radar suggest that you are right, drying up from about 18:30ish...
I remember the year the whole thing got cancelled as the (back then off-site grass) car parks were flooded and turned into quagmires....a shame for all the spectators and exhibitors for certain, but a massive hit for the charities supported by RIAT

[TeeELL]

I was at ‘that’ RIAT! Iirc it was the one the Queen attended and everyone in their finery got well and truly muddied. I remember the whole place was one immense puddle of running water. Still, it did make them review the car parking.

[TeeELL]

The first ‘something’ has just flown over but the acoustics at SWMBO’s in Lechlade are just as challenging. I rushed into the back garden, but should have gone out the front!