Product Description

A unique insiders account of how the worlds best combat aircraft, best pilots, international big business and 200,000 people are bought together for the worlds biggest military airshow. Graham Hurley will be the performance director for the 1998 Fairford International Air Tattoo in July 1998. For the 2 days of the show he will be responsible for choreographing and coordinating the air displays that are the centrepiece of the event, including a simultaneous fly-past of aircraft from the 80 year history of the Royal Air Force and an aerobatic display by the Red Arrows. A Key figure both during the weekend and the 8 month planning period running up to it.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #849850 in Books
• Published on: 1998-11-30
• Format: Illustrated
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 224 pages

About the Author
Graham Hurley is an award-winning TV documentary maker who now writes full time. He lived in Portsmouth for 20 years. He is married and has grown up children. He now lives in Exmouth, Devon.

Customer Reviews

Fly-on-the-wall tale of a unique group. A riveting read
'Airshow' is an extraordinary story of how 4,500 people - most of them unpaid volunteers - come together every year to mount the what the organisers claim is the biggest military airshow in the world. It's a real fly-on-the-wall, warts-and-all tale about people achieving amazing results for no other reason than that they want to do it. The show - the Royal International Air Tattoo - donates all its profits to the Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund. Graham Hurley, the author, spent a year with the team that puts the show together. He seems to possess an uncanny knack for being in the right place at the right time. He recounts all sorts of incidents and conversations that a PR agency might not recommend as being the best bits to publish . The result is a riveting account of politicking and infighting, and eventual triumph. If you like aircraft and aiirshows, it's a wonderful read - but even if you're not that interested in things aeronautical, it's still a humorous and beautifully observed story of people working under great stress to achieve something unique.