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Steven Bridge  |  by livingthequietlife.spaces.live.com. All rights reserved. 3.01 | 16:13

August 08

A LIFE BEHIND THE FENCE

Since finishing the odyssey detailed previously things became a little quiet.

I went back to my desk in the depot, sat and pondered the question of what to do next. As it turned out next happened to be the Farnborough Airshow. It was one of those little boxes on my check list of things to do that I had wanted to tick since childhood, having campained fruitlessly to Mum and Dad for years who countered with the incident in 1952 when the De-Havilland 110 broke up at speed, sending an engine into the crowd and killing 31 people in the process.

Not put off by this the family and I joined the racks of spotters et al and lined up alond the runway for what turned out to be a very spectacular display. Starting with the Airbus A340 with an incredibly steep ascent after rotating off the runway, then followed by it's big sister the colossal A380.

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