I’ll be there the last weekend. BW Roger

Bertie, you are the best! you can make a great career at the AFM & General discussion forum also. They like to play it hard there, that’s the real playing ground.

Dan, I said that formation teams were boring. Sometimes at the RIAT you had 7 of them in the daily airshow. For me a Spitfire is like a racecar, just to streamlined and light. I prefer aircraft as the Tempest and Typhoon.

David, riding the TBM was great. It was in 1991 in Florida. Always liked the TBM, especially as a radarplatform (TBM-3W2) and as a a tanker.

Mark (12), I don’t hate Spitfires, it is just that I have absolutely no interest or emotion with the sight of a Spitfire, so at airshows I just ignore them, and I only photograph them once, which means that I have 1 slide of every Spit I saw in my collection. I have the same with demonstration teams as the Red Arrows, Blue Angels and all the others. I think they are boring after you have seen them once and they are a safety hazard, (and I was at Ramstein in 1988 so I know what I am talking about), and are in my opinion only good in that they mostly close the show, so that I can leave without traffic jam as everybody is watching them. Maybe this even safed my life in 88, as I was already moving towards the carpark when pandemonium struck 300 yards behind me. BW Roger