1989 was the last PR9 solo routine. I cant recall any previous to that but saw many do various height recce runs, finishing with a max rate climb! WOW!
1990-1991 had a TT18 from 100 sqn fill the gap – good but not quite the grunt of a ‘9! Rumour has it the 1989 pilot caused a bit of stir at IAT ’89 (the very hot one!) After his saturday display, he was reprimanded by the flying control committee for an as yet undisclosed breach of the strict rules. He departed sat pm allegedly in somewhat of a strop , never to be seen again! If anyone can enlighten/ fill in, quantify that story, I’d love to hear it.

i remember that canberra turning up, it parked just opposite us (i was on the TWCU tornado at the time), and can still remember them opening the nose up to let the nav out.
i remember the crew standing at the front of it like the rest of us with our aircraft when the king of jordan did a walk through of all the active aircraft, we got a bit of a telling off though as we weren’t in uniform, just shorts and t-shirts as it was so hot.

i can’t remember when the aircraft left, but i have to admit i thought it was there for the weekend, as i can’t recall a big empty slot opposite us, but i could well be wrong, my memory of that weekend have several blurry bits due to various partys (including blagging tickets to the red arrows 25th birthday bash!).