The Spit’ is still at Leeward but should soon be dismantled prior to shipment back to Breighton in time for the airshows.
Yes, it’s the same machine that you saw at East Fortune. We were also due to display there the following year but Tony Smith and Brian Brown found themselves weathered in at Breighton. I tried to attend every booking that year (the final season with ‘Black and Pink’), braved it to Scotland… a dire week of clag – sought sanctuary in the Flypast enclosure (thanks Ken) – had a tree right in front of us! Drove back to Yorkshire, somewhat cheesed off, to find the most horrendous storm at Scotch Corner… brilliant sunshine after that!
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