Air Race at Wisley Airfield

Having copies of the RAeS journal reports for the above dates, it seems that my idea that an air race took place here at all may well be shot down in flames, since it is inconceivable that both the RAeS and the Flight Magazine would have omitted such an event. Since my viewpoint on the southern side of the airfield was at least half a mile to a mile from all the Garden Party activities, I could only see the aircraft when they took off in the distance before making a sharp turn over Ockham Common. Also the loud speaker system could not be interpreted at all. In all intents and purposes, the sequence of types of different aircraft appearing on the same circuit several times gave the appearance of an air race being conducted . However reading between the lines of the 1957 journal, there is a case that this was only individual demonstrations by the pilots of the older aircraft doing fast and slow passes in front of the spectators, before joining the aforementioned circuit in force. This would have been fairly low level over Ockham Common, outlying Wisley, Pyrford and Ripley before landing west to east presumably.