{"id":185,"date":"2006-11-20T22:23:29","date_gmt":"2006-11-20T14:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2006\/11\/20\/photos-from-red-bull-air-race\/"},"modified":"2006-11-20T22:23:29","modified_gmt":"2006-11-20T14:23:29","slug":"photos-from-red-bull-air-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2006\/11\/20\/photos-from-red-bull-air-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos from Red Bull Air Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a quick post with a number of photos (and commentary) from the recent final leg of the Red Bull Air Race here in Perth last Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"image181\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/pb190198.JPG?w=840\" alt=\"pb190198.JPG\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Keep reading for more photos.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It was very crowded in South Perth. Apparantly around 300,000 people turned up to watch the show (which is around the same about that turn up for the annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.perth.wa.gov.au\/skyworks\/info.html\">SkyWorks fireworks show<\/a>). There were big video screens showing &#8220;the story so far&#8221; and instant replays:<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"image168\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/pb190159.JPG?w=840\" alt=\"pb190159.JPG\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It was sometimes difficult to see over the throngs of people:<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"image170\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/pb190164.JPG?w=840\" alt=\"pb190164.JPG\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>but the planes still felt very close: <\/p>\n<p><img id=\"image169\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/pb190162.JPG?w=840\" alt=\"pb190162.JPG\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Food was expensive and the lines were insane. Chicken Treat didn&#8217;t seem entirely upfront about their prices. You could barely make out how much everything costs until you were very close to the shop (and had already invested in a long wait in line):<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"image171\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/pb190166.JPG?w=840\" alt=\"pb190166.JPG\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img id=\"image184\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/prices_closeup.jpg?w=840\" alt=\"prices_closeup.jpg\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A lot of people left very quickly after the Air Race was over. Around 45 minutes after the race, the Perth side of the river was very clear:<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"image172\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/pb190170.JPG?w=840\" alt=\"pb190170.JPG\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There was still a lot to see, including aerial acrobatics demonstrations:<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"image175\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/pb190174.JPG?w=840\" alt=\"pb190174.JPG\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img id=\"image174\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/pb190172.JPG?w=840\" alt=\"pb190172.JPG\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img id=\"image173\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/pb190171.JPG?w=840\" alt=\"pb190171.JPG\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>and fighter jets. There was a quartet flying in formation:<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"image178\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/pb190180.JPG?w=840\" alt=\"pb190180.JPG\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>soon followed by an individual fighter jet that seemed to be painted with the Australian flag. It buzzed past both the north and south shores and ended by flying straight up into the sky, releasing flares as it went:<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"image179\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/pb190195.JPG?w=840\" alt=\"pb190195.JPG\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Although South Perth was the recommended location for viewing the Air Race, I think that the north shore would have been better. It didn&#8217;t seems as crowded (granted I was there after the main race):<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"image182\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/pb190200.JPG?w=840\" alt=\"pb190200.JPG\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>and you could see the planes taking off and landing at Langley park:<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"image180\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/pb190196.JPG?w=840\" alt=\"pb190196.JPG\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Riverside Drive and Terrace Road (west-bound?) were closed to cars for most of the day. It made it fairly easy to get around on a bike:<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"image183\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/pb190201.JPG?w=840\" alt=\"pb190201.JPG\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Judging from the lines for food, the overflowing rubbish bins, and the small number of toilets and police (compared to Skyworks) I don&#8217;t think that they were expecting the high level of interest and attendance the event received.<\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s it. Please let me know if you went and what you thought of the event. <a href=\"http:\/\/evilpixel.org\/blog\/article\/167\/red-bull-air-race\">Phil<\/a> seemed fairly impressed!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a quick post with a number of photos (and commentary) from the recent final leg of the Red Bull Air Race here in Perth last Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"image181\" src=\"http:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/pb190198.JPG\" alt=\"pb190198.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Keep reading for more photos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paLsRH-2Z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}