Vulcan Sky
I took my mother to the Biggin Hill Air Fair over the weekend, and under a beating sun and perfect blue skies we gawped at many planes. The show had plenty of cool stuff, as ever, from a massed First World War-era dogfight, the ever-excellent Red Arrows, to the sky-ripping Typhoon Eurofighter; but what we'd all come to see was This monster.

The Vulcan's a piece of British aviation history, a Cold War nuclear bomber beast that is absolutely spectacular to see in the air. One of my earliest memories of going to an air show was seeing the last of the Vulcans, XH558, crossing the sky above me, engines roaring, bomb bay yawning open; the aircraft was grounded in 1993 and its only been through the work of enthusiasts and donations that this weekend, I got to see it take sky again - and it's still magnificent.