{"id":3055,"date":"2025-02-06T19:53:45","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T19:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/?p=3055"},"modified":"2025-02-06T19:53:45","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T19:53:45","slug":"take-off-thursday-is-finally-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/aviation-news-uk\/uk-airshow-news\/take-off-thursday-is-finally-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Take Off Thursday is finally here!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/article-images-25\/RIAT-Thursday.jpg\" alt=\"RIAT Thursdays\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>We&#8217;re up and running\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Take Off Thursdays are back and off to a flying start with an award-winning display heading to RAF Fairford. The Finnish Air Force will be providing their popular F\/A-18C Hornet, which is set to feature in the flying display on Saturday and Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Joining the Finns is the Lithuanian Air Force, with its search-and-rescue Dauphin helicopter, which is returning to RIAT for only the second time, on static display.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Elsewhere on the ground and also tied to this year\u2019s theme of Eyes in the Skies, are some intriguing civilian-owned aircraft courtesy of Fighter Aviation Engineering. The first of their two aircraft is a Supermarine Spitfire painted in Indian Air Force markings and equipped with aerial reconnaissance cameras, while the L-12A Electra Junior also carried out a specific role, as it was used for covert missions for the Special Intelligence Service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.airtattoo.com\/the-airshow\/aircraft-and-pilots\/confirmed-aircraft\/\" target=\"_blank\">View Confirmed Aircraft<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;re delighted that you are excited for RIAT25, with more than 50,000 of you having booked your spot for this year&#8217;s extravaganza. Like you, we can\u2019t wait for the world&#8217;s greatest airshow to return to RAF Fairford on the 18th, 19th and 20th July. Five of our Saturday enclosures are already sold out, so don&#8217;t delay, book your tickets today and be part of the fun. Why not upgrade to one of our unique hospitality areas. You will need a general admission ticket to upgrade to an enclosure. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tickets.airtattoo.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.tickets.airtattoo.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re up and running\u2026 Take Off Thursdays are back and off to a flying start with an award-winning display heading to RAF Fairford. The Finnish Air Force will be providing their popular F\/A-18C Hornet, which is set to feature in the flying display on Saturday and Sunday. Joining the Finns is the Lithuanian Air Force, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/aviation-news-uk\/uk-airshow-news\/take-off-thursday-is-finally-here\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Take Off Thursday is finally here!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[341,58,10,179],"class_list":["post-3055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk-airshow-news","tag-341","tag-february","tag-news","tag-royal-international-air-tattoo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3056,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3055\/revisions\/3056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}