{"id":6,"date":"2006-05-20T13:32:50","date_gmt":"2006-05-20T11:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/feed\/?p=6"},"modified":"2008-06-12T19:00:11","modified_gmt":"2008-06-12T17:00:11","slug":"flights-of-fancy-sure-to-impress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/aviation-news-uk\/uk-airshow-news\/flights-of-fancy-sure-to-impress\/","title":{"rendered":"Flights of Fancy sure to impress!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Keep your eyes peeled for some spectacular aerial stunts this coming Bank Holiday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">The 21st Westcliff Casino Southend Airshow is bigger and better than ever and a brilliant line up is planned.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">The ever popular RAF Harrier is returning to wow the audience with some trademark manoeuvres \u2013 including its famous hover, and swooping in from RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire is the RAF\u2019s front line, state-of-the-art fighter jet, the Typhoon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">The Tucano and Hawk will be jetting in and showing off some fancy flying, and one of the most exciting additions to the programme is the \u2018Patrouille Reva\u2019. This unique French display team have flown at a number of international airshows and this will be the first time they fly over Southend. <\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Also making their debut are the Blades, the UK\u2019s newest aerobatics display team. Flown by world class ex-military pilots, it promises thrills and spills unseen in Southend and around the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Walking in the air will be firm favourites the Utterly Butterly Flying Circus Wing Walkers, who\u2019ll amaze onlookers with daredevil wing walking.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">But it\u2019s not just planes winging their way in \u2013 the Royal Marine Commandos are going to bring some drama to the day with their boat hostage rescue and the RAF Falcons Parachute team will be dropping onto the beach. The Search and Rescue Sea King and Black Cats Lynx pair helicopters will chop their way through their routines to dazzle the assembled crowds. <\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Ray Thilthorpe, the Westcliff Casino Southend Airshow\u2019s Flying Director says: \u201cWe can boast one of the most diverse flying programmes in the UK, offering dynamic display teams, military planes bristling with technology and some daredevil stunts. Keep your eye on the sky this Bank Holiday weekend!\u201d <\/span><span style=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"#ffffff;\"><span style=\"#000000;\">For more info: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.southendairshow.com\/%20\" target=\"_blank\">www.southendairshow.com<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keep your eyes peeled for some spectacular aerial stunts this coming Bank Holiday. The 21st Westcliff Casino Southend Airshow is bigger and better than ever and a brilliant line up is planned. The ever popular RAF Harrier is returning to wow the audience with some trademark manoeuvres \u2013 including its famous hover, and swooping in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/aviation-news-uk\/uk-airshow-news\/flights-of-fancy-sure-to-impress\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Flights of Fancy sure to impress!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[8,6,10,11],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk-airshow-news","tag-8","tag-airshow","tag-news","tag-southend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","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=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}