Royal International Air Tattoo
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The Royal International Air Tattoo (RIAT) is the world's largest military airshow, held annually over the third weekend in July, usually at RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire, England in support of The Royal Air Force Charitable Trust.
The show attracts around 150,000 spectators.
1993 MiG incident
In 1993 two
Mig-29s collided, raising fears of a repeat of the
Ramstein airshow disaster, where 70 people died when an aircraft crashed into the public area. However the MiGs crashed away from the public and no one was hurt on the ground [
link]. After having
ejected, the two
Russian pilots landed safely with their
parachutes [
link].
2004 Gallery
Image:RIAT2004-F18F.jpg|F/A-18F at RIAT 2004.
Image:RIAT2004-B1B.jpg|B-1B at RIAT 2004.
Image:DakotaC3.jpg|C-47A Dakota at RIAT 2004.
Image:MB-339CD.jpg|Aermacchi MB-339 at RIAT 2004.
Image:P-47MThunderbolt.jpg|P-47M Thunderbolt at RIAT 2004.
Image:PatrouilleDeFrance01.jpg|Patrouille de France at RIAT 2004.
Image:PatrouilleDeFrance02.jpg|Patrouille de France at RIAT 2004.
Image:PatrouilleDeFrance03.jpg|Patrouille de France at RIAT 2004.
Image:PatrouilleDeFrance04.jpg|Patrouille de France at RIAT 2004.
Image:PatrouilleDeFrance05.jpg|Patrouille de France at RIAT 2004.
Image:Refuelling.jpg|MC-130P & Sea Stallion Inflight refuelling demo at RIAT 2004.
Image:SpitfireTIX.jpg|Supermarine Spitfire TIX at RIAT 2004.
2005 Gallery
Image:BAeSystemsHawk102D.jpg|BAe Hawk 102D at RIAT 2005.
Image:DassaultFalcon20.jpg|Dassault Falcon 20s at RIAT 2005.
Image:FrecceTricolori01.jpg|Frecce Tricolori at RIAT 2005.
Image:FrecceTricolori03.jpg|Frecce Tricolori at RIAT 2005.
Image:HarrierGR7A.jpg|The sharp end of a Harrier GR7A at RIAT 2005.
Image:JaguarGR3A.jpg|SEPECAT Jaguar at RIAT 2005.
Image:Lancaster.jpg|Avro Lancaster at RIAT 2005.
Image:LynxHAS3.jpg|Westland LynxHAS3 of the Black Cats (Royal Navy) display team at RIAT 2005.
Image:PatrullaAguila01.jpg|Patrulla Aguila at RIAT 2005.
Image:PatrullaAguila02.jpg|Patrulla Aguila at RIAT 2005.
Image:PatrullaAguila03.jpg|Patrulla Aguila getting very close at RIAT 2005!
Image:RedArrows01.jpg|Red Arrows in formation with two Supermarine Spitfire PRXIX's at RIAT 2005.
Image:RedArrows02.jpg|Red Arrows in "Swan" formation at RIAT 2005.
Image:RedArrows03.jpg|Red Arrows in "Apollo" formation at RIAT 2005.
Image:RedArrows04.jpg|Red Arrows at RIAT 2005.
Image:RedArrows05.jpg|Red Arrows at RIAT 2005.
Image:RedArrows06.jpg|Red Arrows at RIAT 2005.
Image:SeaHarrier.jpg|Sea Harrier FA2 hovering at RIAT 2005.
Image:TucanoT1.jpg|Short Tucano T1 at RIAT 2005.
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