{"id":22518,"date":"2019-05-05T22:24:16","date_gmt":"2019-05-05T21:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=22518"},"modified":"2019-05-05T22:24:16","modified_gmt":"2019-05-05T21:24:16","slug":"twentieth-abingdon-air-and-country-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=22518","title":{"rendered":"Twentieth Abingdon Air and Country Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19050501.jpg\" alt=\"Twentieth Abingdon Air and Country Show\" \/><br \/>\nIt was the twentieth year of the&nbsp;Abingdon Air And Country Show.&nbsp; Near the entrance there was a large RAF Hercules that people were queuing to look round.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19050502.jpg\" alt=\"Twentieth Abingdon Air and Country Show\" \/><br \/>\nI arrived quite early, when some of the 50+ aircraft were still arriving. That was before the flying displays that started at around 1:30 pm.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19050514.jpg\" alt=\"Twentieth Abingdon Air and Country Show\" \/><br \/>\nThere were the usual wide array of Classic vehicles and ex-military vehicles.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19050503.jpg\" alt=\"Twentieth Abingdon Air and Country Show\" \/><br \/>\nAbingdon Air Training Corps were one of many organisations with a stall. They are stationed near the airfield at Dalton Barracks.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19050510.jpg\" alt=\"Twentieth Abingdon Air and Country Show\" \/><br \/>\nThere were various displays and performances. Hawkwalk \u2013 Falconry Oxfordshire had what turned into a longer than expected display. The final bird, a Peregrine Falcon, flew high away from the arena, and then seemed to be set upon by four kites which swirled around it blocking its return. The falcon&#8217;s speed was too much for the kites and it eventually came back to swoop for the food, but it was real life nature.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19050506.jpg\" alt=\"Twentieth Abingdon Air and Country Show\" \/><br \/>\nAbingdon Traditional Morris Dancers were there performing in front of the Oxford Bus Company double deckers.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19050507.jpg\" alt=\"Twentieth Abingdon Air and Country Show\" \/><br \/>\nTheir squire, The Mayor of Ock Street, can be seen here afterwards with one of the Military re-enactment groups. He will soon be up for re-election.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19050508.jpg\" alt=\"Twentieth Abingdon Air and Country Show\" \/><br \/>\nThe Mayor of Abingdon, Councillor Margaret Crick, also toured the show, and got to see behind the scenes, and talk to the pilots and organisers.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19050512.jpg\" alt=\"Twentieth Abingdon Air and Country Show\" \/><br \/>\nI&#8217;m afraid my camera, with its standard lens, could not do most of the air display justice. This is the Rich Goodwin Muscle Biplane which did three close passes with a car, before doing some amazing aerial acrobatics.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19050515.jpg\" alt=\"Twentieth Abingdon Air and Country Show\" \/><br \/>\nThere was a huge crowd. The sky was cloudy with some blue patches and a little wind and so good for parachuting and flying.<\/p>\n<p>Money will have been raised for Thames Valley Air Ambulance and other good causes. Neil Porter and family and friends have again organised a wonderful day. They are all volunteers and work so hard, despite the stricter and stricter regulations, to put on a show. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was the twentieth year of the&nbsp;Abingdon Air And Country Show.&nbsp; Near the entrance there was a large RAF Hercules that people were queuing to look round. I arrived quite early, when some of the 50+ aircraft were still arriving. That was before the flying displays that started at around 1:30 pm. There were the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}