Tu-22 Backfire

Farnborough is perhaps the world's most famous aviation trade event and attracts the biggest, best and newest, plus some significant historic types on the public days.

Even as the cold war drew to an end, no-one could have predicted the fantastic sights of awesome Soviet technology that we were destined to be seen at forthcoming airshows. The Bear and Backfire epitomise the dark threat that the West lived with for forty years whilst the Russian Knights team with six Flankers and the Rolls Royce powered Tu 204 herald a new era of friendship and co-operation.

Military Airshow '92 is a compilation of the very best airshow action featuring a whole range of fighters, bombers, helicopters and transport displayed in the UK in 1992 introduced by David Oliver, editor of Airforces Monthly.

The oldest and newest are featured, so whilst saying goodbye to types like the Phantom, Buccaneer and F-111 we thrill to the sight of Rafale, Gripen, F--17 Stealth and new derivatives like the Harrier GR.7 and F-15E Strike Eagle.

Farnborough is perhaps the worlds's most famous aviation trade event and attracts the biggest, best and newest, plus some significant historic types on the public days. 1992 as no exception. Fabulous weather and a tremendous variety of types, particularly from the former Soviet Union, made this show a truly vintage event.