A Mitchell over Antrim ?

Mitchell over Antrim

Yep, was our B-25 on its way back from Derry to the Netherlands. Heard that the Sheikh Yasser Ferifat did a fabulous display again!
Next B-25 airshow is Jersey, coming Thursday. Another day over another bay. The season is almost over.
Coert

Portrush proved to be a really fantabulous final airshow at that venue unless some fairly large sponsorship funds can be found in the years to come.

The two day show was a cracker with some testing turbulence in the bay that kept the Great War Combat Team on the ground on Saturday but they flew on Sunday.

My Arab cousin, Sheikh Yasser Ferifat, and I shared the family Skybolt and I flew two aerobatic slots while he had two rather undulatory and indescribable trips which started off as a sedate flypast by a foreign VIP and degenerated into utter mayhem.

The event coincided with the 75th anniversary of the formation of the Ulster Gliding Club now based at their magic airfield at Bellarena where most of the display aircraft were based for the weekend. Their formal dinner on the Friday night was the finest bit of Irish craic (???) I, or my cousin, had ever experienced. Other airshow aircraft were based at Londonderry/Eglington (known by the more republican locals as “The City of Derry Airport”) or Belfast/Aldergrove.

Poor weather for the return flight to the UK meant that most of the visiting display aircraft had one or two extra nights in Ulster waiting for an improvement.

If pushed I could write up the show in some detail so do let me know if you would like a rare account of this Celtic fringe extravaganza from an airshow pilots angle.

Cheers,

Trapper 69

Duke of Brabant’s Dutch B-25 en-route to the Portrush Display

Had excited phone call from my pals sitting on the cliffs at Portrush watching the display, reckoned it was one of the best they had seen. Could clearly hear B-25 flying round.

Flew over my house as well – very nice.

Duke of Brabant’s Dutch B-25 en-route to the Portrush Display

Thanks, a brilliant sight and sound I must say. 😀

Duke of Brabant’s Dutch B-25 en-route to the Portrush Display