A long shot – East Fortune airshow ~ 15 years ago.

Thanks all, again, for filling in the gaps. I watched the videos in Mauld’s post and they are great! I was expecting to see a family member in the Merlin run, but alas it didn’t come to pass. I seem to recall seeing a Piper Cub or similar being moved on the ground, as if through the crowd. Does this ring a bell?

Jumped in too quick when stated not this century – checked my photo’s and was 2000! One of the few years I went as it used to clash with Legends before they changed the date.

Apologies for the quality but taken from the prints – pre-digital.

IMG_0752 by Euan Leitch, on Flickr

IMG_0753 by Euan Leitch, on Flickr

IMG_0754 by Euan Leitch, on Flickr

IMG_0757 by Euan Leitch, on Flickr

IMG_0758 by Euan Leitch, on Flickr

Looking back through my photo’s also shows:

MH434
SE 5A replica
RAF Tutor
Jet Provost (some sort of Texaco sponsor – all black with fire style colours on the nose and tail)
Pitts
Blenheim
DH.84 Dragon Iolar
P-51 Detroit Miss (now the “Sharkmouth” P-51)
Nanchang
Stearmans – “Utterly Butterly” team
Scot Airways Dornier
Tiger Moth
Yak 52
Chipmunk
Bulldog
Stolp Starduster Too

Probably one of the best line-ups they had before (I felt) it got a bit repetitive.

Don’t have any recollection of it but I do have photo’s of the Twin Pin and Beech outside – none of LA198 although I do have one from the previous year.

Definitely 2000.

The Spitfire and Hurricane were parked in one of the hangars overnight, and I seem to recall Spitfire F.21 LA198 being there in the restoration hangar, too.

Spitfire F.21 LA198 was undergoing restoration for static display in the Kevingrove museum Glasgow in 602 sqn ‘City of Glasgow’ codes.

Definitely 2000.

The Spitfire and Hurricane were parked in one of the hangars overnight, and I seem to recall Spitfire F.21 LA198 being there in the restoration hangar, too.

Many thanks all. 1999 to 2000 seems appropriate, and I imagine I saw G-HURR and PL965 then (not a double seater after all). From memory the static aircraft were positioned on the North/South runway and initially you could walk amongst them. I then remember being behind a barrier at the end of the same runway with the Dragon Rapide being the closest aircraft to the flight line. The Nanchang CJ-6 took off and then subsequently vanished for quite a length of time. My grandparents called it a ‘Ruskie’, which is where I got the Yak link from. 😉 The Harrier did its hovering trick somewhere to the West of the crowd line from what I recall. The weather was overcast for this event.

I think I’m actually thinking of two events. One was in bright sunshine and the Utterly Butterly team showed up with their wing walkers. We were encouraged, perhaps a few too many times, to wave and jump about as much as possible so that they could see us from the air. The restoration hangar was open to the public, as it wasn’t normally back then, and there was a paper aeroplane building competition in there which I did quite well at. Some chap had a Merlin engine on the back of a trailer with a chopped prop mounted. This was perhaps the Millenium air show as the weather looks good in the videos on Youtube. Again I had some photos I took at the time, but I don’t know where they all went. I’m now surprised at how little of these two events I put in the memory banks, or perhaps we went home in time for dinner? My grandparents ran a tight ship! I certainly wasn’t at either of these events for multiple days. From memory there was an almost completely unrelated fairground setup on the North of the site with blaring music, etc.

Last time I was at East Fortune, a few months back now, it was the festival of… kites. :sleeping: I have tickets for myself and the inlaws to go to the Festival of Flight in July. I hope the weather is on our side!

Forgot about this one

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Credit not me

It was the year 2000, The Millennium Festival of Flight Airshow. Held over three days.

The Yak was a Nanchang CJ-6.

Three videos from the show

Not sure if this was the airshow or the pfa flyin

These are some of my very earliest videos.

Will need to check photos tonight when I get home but would say mid to late 90’s – definitely not into this century.

I do remember at least 1 year with RAC’s Pink Spitfire (single seat) and Black Hurricane. Think they were even there on the Friday night one year when they had events on in the evening. PT462 used to be a regular at the show – that could have been the two seat Spit.

Seem to recall the Harrier display being when the crowd line used to be (from Google maps) what I assume to be the old North/South runway. Also have good memories of (German?) Phantoms putting in appearance one year and the Aer Lingus DH.84 Dragon ‘Iolar’ displaying over the field between the main museum and the runway normally used as a car park!

In those days the aircraft could fly from the airfield.

Maybe around 2000? That is around the time the Real Aeroplane Co’s Spitfire was painted in the pink scheme.
Ken McEllis of FlyPast fame used to do a great commentary!

Pete

The LAA had a Fly-In in 2001
But I have never seen a Pink Spitfire. PL965 was there in 2000.