Today, I went to the inaugural Singapore Airshow at Changi Exhibition Centre... It was awesome!! 20 bucks... well spent!!!
ok met up bunny and his dad at pasir ris mrt station at 7.45am... early right?? haha... there was already a queue forming at the queueing line... haha.. looks like there were ppl more earlier than us... but well.. 7.45am was still pretty much early, although a queue was in front of us... we were at the front part of the queue... so tt naturally made us the first batch to reach the exhibition grounds...
well there had been complaints abt entry being very troublesome and time consuming.... but mine was hassle free.. i wld say the supporting crew at scene were up to the task, but room for more efficiency yea.. maybe we were the first batch and tt it was the start of the day.. =)
well upon reaching... we wasted no time and headed down to the static display area and started snapping away... F-16, F-15, A380... were all there!! haha enuf to make my heart pound with excitement...oh oh oh!! the lancer bomber was there too!! there were other planes too... like the private jets and helicopter... the weather was fine too... not too hot and quite breezy... it was like a morning stroll to me.. =D
after that.. we went into the air conditioned exhibition hall... where dealers displayed their aviation and defence products... frm jet engines to weapon systems... not bad... got quite a few items of the collectables shelves... hee! but well.. like always... things often get squeezy in exhibition halls...
At abt noon... we headed out to the open space for the flying display frm various grps... namely the RSAF Black Knights, the RAAF Rouelettes, USAF's F-16 & F-18, trainer jets:Italian's M-346 & Korea's T-50 and lastly the Airbus A380... Ain't the line up jus look fantastic?? hoho!! the show was fantastic... planes doing 7 to 9G turns with full afterburners.... doing aileron rolls.. formation flying.. power climbs... low speed flying.... phew!!! how cool is that!! After that... we stayed on for the final walk arnd the the exhibition hall... several more snaps and we decided to call it a day...
Hmmm... it was during the departure frm the place tt was troublesome.. Apparently, a long queue for the shuttle bus had already formed up and it was loooooong... geez... under the hot sun, with bodies pressing onto each other... hot and sweaty, emotions often seem to run high... ppl were very eager to cut into each other's path... haiz...why why why?? haha... sumone behind us even commented tt "ppl queued up for so long, and yet ppl can cut queue" and in the end they themselves were doing it!! lolx and trust me they got pretty farther up than us... hoho!!! so you see... the social ethics in this country can be quite bad at times... well.. there is a need to change these... furthermore we are granted the hosting rights for the youth olympics 2010... seriously we need to change... Another thing is, the crowd management of the event... in the morning, hassle free... returning journey, bad. ok frm wat i saw, the crowd was quite well controlled... its jus tt they can change sumthing last minute and we wld be caught unaware and a human jam wld follow...
but well.. we got out eventually... and i feeling contented =) ok here are sum of the pics i took.. enjoy (for those who are interested, request for the whole photo collection frm me)
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