God this is complicated and all for just four pieces of copper.
Sqn Ldr Franek Kornicki back in his office 62 Year after he flew BM597 from Woodvale in 1942
TFC’s latest addition the Spitfire Mk 27 Stealth. Very rare and like many things on this forum totally invisible to the naked eye.
On Friday I managed to break away from family commitments to shoot a few rolls of film at the airport. Departures happened quite quickly after the static display closed mid morning.
One of the first was the DC6, what a great noise and lovely colour scheme, lets hope they can keep it for a while longer.
The hawk display team where next out
In the meantime the JU52, Fortress, An2 and Meteor gave flights around the island to the local RAFA volunteers.
The F86 did its bit for global warming and really showed its carbon footprint
The A26 soon followed on.
and finally the DC3 returned to the Island from an undisclosed sortie in order to meet up with the fighters and return to the UK.
The Blades went trough their display, all dots in the sky from where I was, following on from them were the Buchon, Hurricane and JU52. The Hurricane and Buchon especially put on a great display, though for the purposes of this post you’ll have ot imagine it. The JU52 lumbered around the bay slowly, I managed a three course meal with coffee and liquors during its display 🙂
The AN2 did its customary slow display at one point appearing to stop in mid air, however as the commentator correctly said the Rapide beach landing was superb and brought back memories to many of the times before the airport was opened at St Peters in 1937, when beach landings were a regular event.
Next up were the BBMF’s fighters, for some reason the Lancaster was not available this year.
BlueCircle airlines displayed their Trislander, Islander and Jetstream before the Typhoon took centre stage, I must admit it was something of a show stopper, many of the great unwashed who congregated close to where I was perched thought it was the hi-light. Though I did hear one guy say, “I didn’t think the Vulcan was coming this year”.
For me the next act was special and very pretty in its KLM colours.
The DC6 (A better shot later !!!)
The show closed with the usual Red Arrow display with a slight addition:-
All in all a good show for the punters, not so good for those wishing to take photographs, the commentary was good as well and much more informed than in previous years.
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