Quality set, love the roundel – oh, and yep, there I am. Gorgeous. :D;)

I much prefer these events to airshows. Really miss the Delta jets open days when the pilots happily mingled amongst the crowd & the Tiger Squadron days with the OFMC. 🙁

That comment inspired me to post this on another forum, may as well post it here too.

I’m far from an expert on these things, but I wonder whether it would be in any way possible to combine this type of photo shoot/access all areas event with an air display (not at North Weald, for well documented reasons)?

However, say for the purposes of my question that circumstances were different and it would be held at North Weald – would it be feasible to have aircraft parked on the Weald Aviation apron as they were on Sunday, very few barriers, with the same taxi-way system in use, but with a crowd line set up nearer the runway? I guess the idea would be that you can watch the aircraft being prepared, refuelled and started up at close quarters without any barriers, have them taxi past just a few feet away, then wander up to the crowdline to watch them take-off and display, using a standard display line? Not necessarily a full scale airshow, but perhaps a dozen or so acts spread throughout the day. The aircraft then land, taxi back and shut down amongst the spectators.

I think a similar thing happens with the Great Vintage Flying Weekend, but I may be wrong.

Five or six large single piston engined aircraft flying between Harlow and over flew Ware.
I was fishing in Hunsdon when they flew past in the distance.

Any idea what they could have been as the only ones I can think of are Yaks?

Brian.

Aerostars out of North Weald?

The Collection already has a female pilot

From left to right, from the back:

Jim Schofield; Rex Morley; Frank Chapman; Dodge Bailey; Trevor Roche; looks a bit like Willy Hackett, not entirely sure; Steve Roberts?; Chris Huxtep; John Morris; Dave McKay; Rob Millinship; Paul Stone; Paul Shakespeare; Sir John Allison; Keith Dennison; Peter Holloway and Tracey Curtiss-Taylor.

I believe that’s right…not too certain about Mr Roberts though.