It's a tough choice. As previously mentioned 'The Last Lightning Show' was excellent, as was the RIAT '77' which was combined with the NATO Tiger Meet producing lots of lovely F-104s. The first appearance of the MiG 29s at Farnborough was pretty special, as was my first sight of the A300 fly-by-wire demonstrator. Such a large aircraft/slow pass / high angle of attack, prompted those 'you can't do that thoughts...However, my favourite moment has to be at The Battle of Britain 60th anniversary show at Duxford in September 2000. I was standing on the flightline with two 'BoB' vets when a pair of Hurricanes made a slow pass from left to right. The p/a system was blasting out the key moments of Winston's 'fight them on the beaches' speech. Being the sentimental old fool that I am, and being in the company of these particular two gents with two Merlins and Winnie playing in the background made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. We were all 'glued' to the Hurris, and as they passed us - one vet sighed and muttered 'you beauties'. It was a special moment...

Has to be Northweald Fighter Meet Sponsored by Northwest Airlines who were celebrating their 60th Anniversary, a brand spanking new NW B747 flew past with a DC3 in old NW scheme, then the 12 WW2 fighter formated on the 747, 6 on each wingtip and did a couple of fly pasts.......brilliant!

Then working at Dhahran during the Gulf War was a pretty damn good airshow as well, especially watching the A10 Warthogs coming back from a missions and victory rolling.....

Same as The Pipeline 1992 Leeming watching XH558 put through her paces setting off all the car alarms each pass, and showing the farewell sign in her open bomb doors. Does anyone know if she will fly again i heard she is airworthy and the owner at Bruntinthorpe is try to get an caa airworthiness certificate thingy but having problems with the Government.

XH558 is being made airworthy, and there were hopes it would fly this year.
The only problem now is money.

JERSEY Battle of Briton Air display 1980s ish

Buccaneer takes off out to sea
instead of climbing drops off the end of the runway
and isent seen again untill its display time at St Aubins
Commentator says and here comes the Buccaneer
but forgetts to tell the crowd its comming from behind them
All looking out at sea
then brown trouses all round

Brilliant