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Business Secretary Vince Cable (centre) with ADS president Alex Dorrian (right) and ADS chairman Ian Godden
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Dreamliner 787 flies in for airshow display

By Jack Sommers
July 20, 2010

BUSINESS Secretary Vince Cable was among the guests at the first day of the 47th Farnborough Airshow on Monday.

Ministers, dignitaries from foreign governments and representatives of the defence and technology industries mingled around specially erected buildings on the airfield.

Aerobatics team the Blades were out flying - ahead of their public display at the weekend - while on Sunday, new commercial aircraft the Dreamliner 787 landed at the airport in its first trip outside the USA.

The Dreamliner took part in a flypast on Tuesday afternoon, alongside the Red Devils parachute team and a Second World War Hurricane fighter.

The Blades were also flying again, along with the Airbus A380, Airbus A400M military transport, C27J Spartan military transport and M346 fighter jet trainer.

Among the modern military planes flying were a BAE Typhoon fighter, RAF Typhoon fighter, F-22 US fighter, F-18 US fighter, F-16 US fighter and C130J Hercules military transport.

Click here for all the background to the airshow.

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c123 - I quite agree. Elles Road at the back of the airport has very wide grass verges - could not the cones be put on there instead of on the road? I did laugh re the cones in Arrow Road, going towards the tip - most have been run over and squashed, probably by the container lorries from the HWRC. Again, putting them on the grass verge would have been a lot better. But we are not the experts!!!!

catmad, Farnborough
21/07/2010 at 11:00

I would like to know which bampot official decided to place traffic cones in the roads surrounding the airport, forcing the traffic into the middle of the road. Its like dodgems at the moment.