Photo /users/aendr/whiterabbit/380 Welcome, in the street
Photo /users/aendr/whiterabbit/381 Peter Ewins, the Chief Exec (outgoing) making a speech
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Photo /users/aendr/whiterabbit/387 Lord May, of Oxford, making a speech, opening the building, unveiling the keystone
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Photo /users/aendr/whiterabbit/390 Awaiting the fly past.
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Photo /users/aendr/whiterabbit/392 The Red Arrows approach (but they don't do anything more interesting than make their exhaust gasses change colour)
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Photo /users/aendr/whiterabbit/395 Our research aircraft flies by. It's a BAe146
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Photo /users/aendr/whiterabbit/398 I couldn't resist taking pictures of Michael Fish made to stand in silly poses by the official photographer
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Photo /users/aendr/whiterabbit/405 The actors playing FitzRoy and his cohort posed for us
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Photo /users/aendr/whiterabbit/407 The cake. Doesn't really look big enough to feed 1500, does it?
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Photo /users/aendr/whiterabbit/409 The 4 CEs, past and present and future, who were able to attend (not being dead or anything, like FitzRoy is) cut the cake
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Photo /users/aendr/whiterabbit/412 We all got offered a slice, though it was fruit cake so I didn't partake. They'd made extra so it did go round :-)
Photo /users/aendr/whiterabbit/413 I just missed the shot of the balloon release. I have a balloon on my desk though, a blue one. Met Office colours, you understand.