{"id":32659,"date":"2024-09-21T21:58:18","date_gmt":"2024-09-21T20:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=32659"},"modified":"2024-09-21T21:58:18","modified_gmt":"2024-09-21T20:58:18","slug":"abingdon-air-show-takes-off-despite-early-showers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=32659","title":{"rendered":"Abingdon Air Show Takes Off despite early showers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite morning showers, the Air and Country Show was sunny from around 2:30 PM. The event was less crowded than usual.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag24\/2024092102.jpg\" \/>From RAF Brize Norton the Boeing C17 A Globemaster flew over the show and then came into land. There was a long queue all day of people waiting to board the plane.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag24\/2024092106.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe sight of a Hawker Hurricane Mk1 flying above was made more striking by a replica on the ground.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag24\/2024092105.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe Redline Home Guard, representing the BRX1 (Abingdon) Battalion, had an area showing weapons and a field office, and they gave a display of marching.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag24\/2024092104.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nChewbacca and Stormtroopers were posing for photos with countless stallholders and attendees alike.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag24\/2024092110.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nAttendees could sit in the restored cockpit of a Buccaneer.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag24\/2024092108.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nMr. Punch&#8217;s insulting names for Judy, <em>Rudy Doodie<\/em>, and the Policeman, <em>copper<\/em>, always backfired. The audience enjoyed watching him get caught and scolded. Mr Punch also tried his hand at parenting, but his unawareness of a lurking green crocodile, <em>he&#8217;s behind you<\/em>, caused consternation and laughter.<\/p>\n<p>This is just a brief sample of what was on offer. Congratulations to the team for putting the event together at shortish notice after the May event was cancelled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite morning showers, the Air and Country Show was sunny from around 2:30 PM. The event was less crowded than usual. From RAF Brize Norton the Boeing C17 A Globemaster flew over the show and then came into land. There was a long queue all day of people waiting to board the plane. The sight [&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-32659","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\/32659","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=32659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}