Is it me or does the practice in nice weather just not have the impact that the ‘real’ thing had, with that stream take-off in the gloom and re-heats glowing bright and vortices streaming of the wings etc.

Just made my mind up to devote a day over the xmas break transferring some of my old Lightning video to digi and posting up……including that damp gloomy day in August 87 at Binners.