The sun is shining. The beaches are sandy. The water has a blue flag for cleanliness. You can buy proper wood-smoked kippers from really old smokehouses. You can buy wholesale frozen fish off the fish market (far better than the fresh fish at Tesco). You can come into Chadds (opposite Barclays) and see me. You can have candyfloss and ice cream, donuts and chips.
And even see a few noisy old hairdriers.
The last thing to go through his mind was the brake lever.
More boring. It’s really a pointless show. To think i’ll only pop my head window-wards once each day. Dreadful.
GIVE ME WARBIRDS!
We had a bunch of planes about today, practicing. You’d have thought they’d already learnt how to do it. Would YOU sit on a beach to watch some aircraft who have to practice how to fly the day before? Pah.
Bloody fool Harrier pilot thought his tape was finished, so pressed the eject button.
Dropped down the soup dragon’s well?
Me either. I just go and snap them occasionally.
Me either. I just go and snap them occasionally.
Um, lets just, like, remove the Red Sparrows on both days shall we?
Thats going to ride well, what with no Harrier due to the pilot flooding the engine.
“What, no Harrier?”
Nope. The pilot flooded the engine.
Me either. I’ll poke my head out for the BBMF and maybe the jaguar (missed the last ones to fly over my head!) but the firworks are usually superb.
ah yes
funny though.
What thread is it?
The following is an UPDATED alphabetical list of participants in this year’s LOWESTOFT SEAFRONT AIR FESTIVAL 2003 which will take place on Thursday 31st July & Friday 1st August 2003.
AB-412SP SAR Helicopter – 303 Squadron, Royal Netherlands Air Force
BAe Hawk T.1 – 4 Flying Training School, RAF Valley
Battle of Britain Memorial Flight – Lancaster, Spitfire and Hurricane
Blue Eagles – AAC Helicopter Display Team – Lynx + Gazelle AH.1 x 4
Scout AH.1 and Wasp HAS.1 – Kennet Aviation – With HM Customs Cutter ‘Defender’
Extra 300 – D Dobson Aerobatics
Royal Jordanian Falcons – Extra 300 x 4
F-86A Sabre – Golden Apple Operations
Gnat T.1 – Kennet Aviation
Jaguar GR.3 – 16(Reserve) Squadron, RAF Coltishall
Pilatus PC-7 – EMVO, Royal Netherlands Air Force
Red Arrows – BAe Hawk T.1 x 9, RAF Scampton
Sea King HAR.3 – 22 Squadron ‘B’ Flight, Wattisham Airfield – With Lowestoft Lifeboat
Sea Vixen D.3 – DH Aviation/Red Bull
Tornado F.3 – 56(Reserve) Squadron, RAF Leuchars
Tucano T.1 – 1 Flying Training School, RAF Linton-on-Ouse
Utterly Butterly Wing Walkers – Boeing Stearman x 2 – AeroSuperBatics
Yakolev Team – Yak-52 x 4
The Tigers – Prince of Wales Regiment Parachute Display Team
This taken from an email sent to me by the great Riger Smith at Lowestoft Aviation Society.
Battle. I recently went and got all the annuals (missing 1976) off Ebay. Cracking read.
Bootneck Boy, the sarge, Joe Two Beens, Hellman, Darkies Mob etc.
Has ANYBODY got any ‘Joe Two Beans’ stories? I really need to read him – he’s missed out of every annual!
Battle. I recently went and got all the annuals (missing 1976) off Ebay. Cracking read.
Bootneck Boy, the sarge, Joe Two Beens, Hellman, Darkies Mob etc.
Has ANYBODY got any ‘Joe Two Beans’ stories? I really need to read him – he’s missed out of every annual!
Great, the Skyraider Swimsuit Edition.