Another good airshow I used to go to when I was young, was the RAFA Air Display at Coventry Airport.
In the late 70’s early 80’s, RAFA used to organise a superb airshow and I remember many a hot Sunday August afternoon watching the show from my Dads car in the airport grounds. The very first time Concorde every appeared at the show was spell binding, the inclusion of the then, Kings Cup Air Race but most of all and funnily enough already mentioned by me but this time from a different country, was the Dutch F104G Starfighter. I always remember that every year on the Thursday afternoon before the Sunday show the Starfighter would come screaming over our house really low, we’d rush out to see it just disappearing over the houses behind, but it always came back for another go, obviously doing ‘Hello I’m here’ flybys for the tower. On the Friday and Saturday we would be treated to a 20 minute display when he practised his routine but on the Saturday it was a dream for me, because many aircraft taking part in the show would arrive on that day. The vintage pair Meteor and Vampire, the Mosquito, Firefly, BBMF Lancaster and even SallyB in her then all over bare metal scheme (if it was her) are just a few that graced our skies on a weekend before the Coventry Airshow.
God I miss those good days!! :rolleyes:
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