Two good days for me as well, combining meeting lots of friends from the military vehicle world with excellent displays from aircraft of the same era, taking off from the next door field – so near that you could feel the hollow thump in the ground as aircraft landed. Once again the C47 short field operations amazed and there was a goodly selection of USAAF, RAF and Luftwaffe aircraft, some posed between flights with re-enactors and the appropriate authentic hardware such as bowsers, tractors and runway control caravans. Harvards seemed very plentiful, especially on Sunday, which was very nice to see.

That the C47 dropped sticks of parachutists (jumping with authentic round canopies) was an added bonus. Ignore the modern fly-ins on the far side of the strip and the whole place had the feel of a temporary strip during the Battle of France or a Normandy Advanced Landing Ground.

Standing on the drivers footstep, leaning on the cab roof of a Wartime Bedford 15cwt definitely ranks as one of my most evocative airshow experiences.

my thanks to all the pilots who contributed to what everybody I have spoken to regarded as a fantastic weekend.

Something wrong with your Security Certificates as well as Firefox doesnt want to connect to you unless overridden.

You sit in the drivers seat, disengage the clutch, start the engine, put it into gear, engage the clutch, press the accelerator and use the steering wheel…

Stearman in blue/yellow USAAF colours flew low over Worksop this am, perhaps ex Netherthorpe

Discussed on the Jeremy Vine programme today-make of that what you will. One caller, ex RAF ground crew, mentioned the involvement of an RAF Hunter ex Chivenor, which returned to base with the ammo bays empty. Apparently the pilot and gun camera footage were quickly removed from the scene….

Could just be line-talk of course.

Wherever you decide to go, get there very early as there will be road closures and one way routes put in place. The signs are up already

Surely comparisons can be drawn with the Bf109E retrieved from India (and then squirrelled away) in recent years. That was a gift to an Indian benefactor, and didn’t the Fellowship of the Bellows, which I think was Argentinian based, fund a number of Whirlwinds so by the same accord, a Stuka and / or other EA could easily have been sent to Argentina as a gift.

I recall people questioned the rumours of a 109 mouldering away in India but it was proved to be correct. I wouldn’t be too hasty in discounting this particular rumour either.

We didn’t send them a Whirlwind as well when they were withdrawn did we?