and the exhibition halls are now closed to the general public.
I found 90% of the exhibition halls very very dry. Bae systems hall was good though (and I guess open at the weekend)
I also managed to insult the folks at a UAV control station stand by point out that they had something suspiciously like an Xbox controller attached to their monitors .
I live in Farnborough...car alarms going off, the ground shaking, feeling like you're in a war zone every afternoon. The sound of the sky ripping above your head. Thunderous, apocalyptic-sounding screams of the plane engines just when you're trying to get a newborn to sleep. Ahhh...you really can't beat it. ;-)
Still, i get to see the planes and all their clever loops and tricks on a daily basis...there is NO way i'd ever pay for a ticket. Too many places you can view the whole shebang for free IMO. Crazy prices.
I found 90% of the exhibition halls very very dry. Bae systems hall was good though (and I guess open at the weekend)
I also managed to insult the folks at a UAV control station stand by point out that they had something suspiciously like an Xbox controller attached to their monitors .
I have seen XBox controllers and even the Kinect devices used on a fair few items of kit. They are very easy to integrate into bespoke applications and customise. Furthermore they have been through a lot of HMI design and are already familiar to a lot of potential users. It makes a lot of sense - both engineering and financial - to avoid reinventing the wheel.
Good to see the weather hold off today and hope everyone who went enjoyed themselves.
Over time, Textron executives are confident that cash-strapped governments will cotton to its plane for a variety of missions: border patrol, disaster relief, offshore shipping inspections, and pilot training. State Air National Guard units may also prove to be a potential destination for the Scorpion. For countries that spend heavily on air defense—nations such as the U.S., Japan, Britain, and South Korea—Textron argues that the Scorpion could more affordably handle much of the routine flying that the bigger, pricier supersonic planes now do at far higher cost. http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-07-17/need-a-military-jet-on-budget-try-the-textron-scorpion-for-20-million
All that worry about the weather. When will I learn that metiorologists are useless. Turns out that saturday was the better day... dry and mostly sunny all day long.
45 is certainly overpriced, infact it was 48 on the door, but the amount of joy on my nephews face as he exprianced his first airshow was priceless, and made the entrance fee well worth it. My only complaint...... the tanoy announcement that informed us that there will now be a break before the red arrows display starts. 3 mins later we arrived at the toilets only to hear the distant roar of the red ardows display starting!!!!
We watched the show from the business park to the north of the airfield. My niece works at one of the buildings there and they have a families day which gets us close to the action for free.
I have been to a lot of air shows before and I am glad I didn't have to pay £45 for the aircraft on display. Very little new content this year. I guess the organisers were pinning all their hopes on the F35 and didn't feel the need to get anything else of interest in.
It was good to see the Super Constellation as I'd never seen one before and the A400m was impressive but otherwise it was a fairly mundane line up for the money.
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Lol, I like running, I do so much exercise that running seems easy so it doesn't affect me much and it saves me doing it when I get home.
Can't you fit one in your house?
I meant jog to work in the morning, shower, work, jog home in the evening lol
I don't want to work all sweaty in the same way I jog home and shower at home.
I found 90% of the exhibition halls very very dry. Bae systems hall was good though (and I guess open at the weekend)
I also managed to insult the folks at a UAV control station stand by point out that they had something suspiciously like an Xbox controller attached to their monitors .
Still, i get to see the planes and all their clever loops and tricks on a daily basis...there is NO way i'd ever pay for a ticket. Too many places you can view the whole shebang for free IMO. Crazy prices.
Would have liked to see the rain come!!!(the lightest of showers).
Great!!!
The dog hates the noise.
I have seen XBox controllers and even the Kinect devices used on a fair few items of kit. They are very easy to integrate into bespoke applications and customise. Furthermore they have been through a lot of HMI design and are already familiar to a lot of potential users. It makes a lot of sense - both engineering and financial - to avoid reinventing the wheel.
Good to see the weather hold off today and hope everyone who went enjoyed themselves.
http://www.euronews.com/2014/07/16/record-numbers-at-farnborough-international-airshow/
Over time, Textron executives are confident that cash-strapped governments will cotton to its plane for a variety of missions: border patrol, disaster relief, offshore shipping inspections, and pilot training. State Air National Guard units may also prove to be a potential destination for the Scorpion. For countries that spend heavily on air defense—nations such as the U.S., Japan, Britain, and South Korea—Textron argues that the Scorpion could more affordably handle much of the routine flying that the bigger, pricier supersonic planes now do at far higher cost.
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-07-17/need-a-military-jet-on-budget-try-the-textron-scorpion-for-20-million
45 is certainly overpriced, infact it was 48 on the door, but the amount of joy on my nephews face as he exprianced his first airshow was priceless, and made the entrance fee well worth it. My only complaint...... the tanoy announcement that informed us that there will now be a break before the red arrows display starts. 3 mins later we arrived at the toilets only to hear the distant roar of the red ardows display starting!!!!
I have been to a lot of air shows before and I am glad I didn't have to pay £45 for the aircraft on display. Very little new content this year. I guess the organisers were pinning all their hopes on the F35 and didn't feel the need to get anything else of interest in.
It was good to see the Super Constellation as I'd never seen one before and the A400m was impressive but otherwise it was a fairly mundane line up for the money.