This years Royal International Air Tattoo was held at 15 & 16 July, with on both days absolutely great weather with temperatures over 30 degrees Celsius. This time I flew with a KLM Fokker 50 straight to the airshow, which is in my opinion the best way to visit this large-scale show. Just hop on the aircraft, and arrived on the airshow, walk out the aircraft, go pass the security and you are on the show ground. Main themes of this years RIAT where the “Rapid Global Effect” and the “Army Aviation”, with on both days a large number of aircrafts. This time the RIAT had a very impressive list of visitors invited, which included a USMC MV-22 Osprey both on static and flying, a Russian Mig-29OVT with one of the best displays I have ever seen. And the brand-new F/A-18F Super Hornet, piloted by Boeing chief test pilot Ricardo Traven. And last but definitely not least, the last public show and appearance of the always-beautiful PR9 Canberra. Overall again a great job from the RIAT organisation, by gathering so many nice and special participants on one place. The Royal International Air Tattoo 2006 is the biggest "airshow" of the year and this year under blue skies for much of the event. Every year again the struggle, to get special and never seen participants to this airshow, but till know it looks like they have done it again.