Most unusual, at least, must be the time in 1998 that I walked out of my office at DERA Farnborough, looked up and saw a MiG29 coming backwards down towards me, mid tail-slide. Certainly memorable, and bl**dy worrying - Russian fighters never crash at airshows, do they. Can't fly over the crowd, can't fly over the runway, so fly over DERA instead.
Discovered later that staff working for Air Systems had been 'strongly advised' to work at home during the airshow. Didn't tell the rest of us
Never been to an airshow, but Farnborough was one of the perks of working at the RAE/DERA. Best memory, probably EFA, the SU-30 flipping above my office and the time Concorde came visiting. Landed 100 yards away from me while I sat on the grass next to the main runway
