Avalon Airshow 2023: Behind the scenes
I took a few ‘behind the scenes’ photos at the air show.
Washing the wing of his aircraft
Photo of an older man in a large field with white room-sized tents, buses, trucks, and a few general aviation aircraft parked in it. The man is wearing black chinos, a blue casual button-down shirt with its sleeves rolled up, and a black cap. He is standing next to the waist-height wing of a white airplane parked in the field (technically a Diamond HK36 Super Dimona motor glider). All the aircraft parked here are behind areas roped off by blue traffic cones with blue pennant flags on strings attached to them. The man is holding a blue bucket in his left hand. With his right hand he is washing the dirt off the wing of the airplane.
Gotta keep your plane clean
Photo of an older man in a large field with white room-sized tents, buses, trucks, and a few general aviation aircraft parked in it. The man is wearing black chinos, a blue casual button-down shirt with its sleeves rolled up, and a black cap. He is standing next to the waist-height wing of a white airplane parked in the field (technically a Diamond HK36 Super Dimona motor glider). All the aircraft parked here are behind areas roped off by blue traffic cones with blue pennant flags on strings attached to them. The man is holding a blue bucket in his left hand. With his right hand he is washing the dirt off the wing of the airplane.
Aircraft Ground Operations for the air show
Photo of four people sitting around a desk in a second-story room of a white, semi-permanent building. On the table are computers, radios, and other communications equipment. This corner room has floor-to-ceiling windows on both exterior-facing sides. A sign attached to the corner of one of these windows reads, in all-caps “aircraft ground operations”.
Air traffic control tower at Avalon Airport
Photo of the air traffic control tower at Avalon Airport. This is a wide, 14 metre tall, white tower with dozens of communication antennae installed on its roof. There are large, darkened, floor-to-ceiling windows around the top of the tower.