Air shows are a fun day out for the family. On the ground, tank
rides are on offer and armed forces' recruitment drives afford
children an opportunity to indulge in their fascination with guns.
There are elements of fantasy and the carnivalesque here and a
clear disconnect between this 'play' and the actual effect of
weapons. In Friend's photographs the beach and the landscape become
uneasy, surreal spaces, temporarily militarized by the fleeting
presence and roar of fighter jets. She places us at the edge of the
island state where the sight and sounds of these aerial displays
remind us of Winston Churchill's World War II speech, "We shall
fight on the beaches". Civilian aircraft displays are interwoven
with military ones, whilst nostalgia for World War II is evoked by
the presence of 'war birds' such as the Lancaster bomber, only to
be followed by the 'shock and awe' displays of contemporary fighter
jets such as the Tornado, recently deployed in Libya and
Afghanistan. By contrast, the trade days of the larger air shows
such as Farnborough promote military hardware in a more direct way,
while deals are negotiated behind the closed doors of the
hospitality chalets.
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