Suspect this might have been the activities of car clubs so not motor racing as such. If this is the case the cars using the airfield facilities would be road legal, the irony being that they could drive right through Elvington village (which is about 2 miles from the airfield) and the residents would just have to put up with it.

It’s the same on Bruntingthorpe any complaints are tyre noise… we have 3 villages around us but they are right on the actual perimiter fence but the few complaints that I know of come 2 people in one village halfway down the side

The reason I ask is that a chap I know (who is not averse to telling the odd tall story) reckons he was on the display flight over Southport last weekend.

Anon.

One big hole in his story is Martin did not fly the Southport Display..

Bill, Kev & Phill were slated for that flight…

Flight track..

Leicester (Stoughton) Airport 9th September

Cosby (Leics) 9th September

CarFest (North) 9th September

Southport 9th September

Plus under VTST A8-20 only Flight Crew allowed on a display run not even accredited engineers are allowed…. or that is how it was up until I retired in Dec 2009

Looks like water out of the RATs. Perhaps the drains could do with checking?

S’wat I said in post 2:diablo:

Ok next question Denis, what was the delay between the first run and the second, seemed to be sitting there for a very long time idling, did Bob just want to go and get his camera for the snap of it next to the Lightning?

I wasn’t there for first run, problem with my disabled missus’ telephone contact… both Land line and O2 mobile were down.. had to go home to sort, but I believe that they shut down the main engines after the first run but kept the Artuste running for Photo Shoot..so we didn’t have to drag the GPU down from the other end of the airfield for second start… thats when I returned……. thats me on the lance;)

I am not sure as regards the engine mounts -certainly it happened at Wattisham but I am not sure about the aircraft that escaped by air from Wattisham to Leeming and other bases.

I once had a visit from a group from Waddington to see ‘558 in the hangar during her Major and the W/O in charge stated he was incharge of a team that went round to most of the stored airframes away from Wattisham and his orders where to remove their engines and mounts, although I do know of a few he missed:dev2: