The occasion at Great Easton was a unique ‘one-off’ event to mark the 50th anniversary of the Rolls-Royce Slver Cloud and the Bentley S Type motor cars. A large number of guests (many being R-R or Bentley owners and therefore customers of P&A Wood) were specially invited to attend and my wife and I were lucky enough to be included.
Among the attractions specially laid on were ground-running demos by a R-R Merlin 35 (owned by David Corbett) and an 80hp Le Rhone rotary (owned by Andrew Wood) plus Brooklands Museum’s Napier-Railton’s Napier Lion aero engine.
This was followed by an impressive air display featuring Charlie Brown flying a Spitfire Vb from Duxford, Stewart Luck flying Andrew Wood’s ex-Bentley Motors DH60G Gipsy Moth G-ABAG, Dennis Neville doing aerobatics in his own Chipmunk, Denny Dobson with his yellow Extra 300 and last but not least the incredible Microjet ‘Jetbug’! The latter is actually a gas turbine-powered hang glider (not a microlight) and has to be seen and heard to be believed. See http://www.microjeteng.com/ and look at the ‘jetbug’ links for more.
The Sopwith Dove is definitely owned by Andrew Wood but is not currently airworthy (I’m not sure where it is kept) – he does have a business to run too!
Altogether this was a really excellent day and I must congratulate Paul and Andrew Wood and their staff for all their hard work in organising it.
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