Western Daily Press (Saturday)
Hopes high for plenty of action and blue skies
HEAVY showers yesterday meant some visitors to the Royal International Air Tattoo had their eyes on the attractions on the ground rather than those in the sky.
The disappointing weather conditions curtailed some of the aerobatic displays planned at RAF Fairford.
However there were plenty of displays and stands to occupy the attention of aviation enthusiasts.
And with largely brighter weather forecast for today and tomorrow, hopes are high that there will be plenty of action in the skies above the massed crowds.
Among the aircraft that will be flying today and tomorrow are the RAF Red Arrows.
It will be their final two displays in the UK this year, before they depart on an 11 week tour to the United States and Canada.
It is the biggest such tour in their history and the first for a decade.
It continues the Red Arrows history of supporting the ‘Great Britain’ trade campaign – highlighting opportunities across business, education and tourism.
Among their stops in the US will be the Miramar Airshow near San Diego, where the original Top Gun movie was filmed.
Coincidentally the trailer of the long-anticipated sequel was released on Thursday evening.
The action movie sequel – set to be released 34 years after the 1986 original – sees Cruise reprising his role as Pete “Maverick” Mitchell.
In the new film, Maverick is a flight instructor at the Top Gun school and guides the son of Goose from the
original film to be the pilot his father was.
Cruise, 57, said: “I was always asked ‘When are you going to do another one?’ Well, you’ve been very patient with me. I felt like it was my responsibility to really deliver for you.”
The trailer opens with Ed Harris’s character, a high-ranking military official, telling Cruise’s pilot he is a “dinosaur” in the modern world of aviation.