The Sea Vixen was worrying too, because there was something that it either hit or fell of just before it rotated.Then there was the firing of some ‘marker’ as she turned out, then the panel on the next pass.
Was the runway incident the direct cause of the other damage I wonder. The emergency crew picked up both debris.

So are BA doing this 5 ship formation, if so where and when ?

I’m off to EuroDisney in the morning for 5 days so I’ll have a look to see if there are any spare poles on any of the rides for her , she should blend in quite well there !!.

Phil

A couple of points Sparky.
I don’t think that Red Bull would give a monkeys toss whether the aircraft was a Sea Vixen or See-Saw, its a (as Cirrus put it) ‘Flying Billboard’. So I don’t think preservation of a unique flying aircarft was top of their agenda, a cheap(relatively) way of advertising their product of somebodyelses airframe rather than buying their own was. Ok, Ok I know its flying whereas without this sponsorship it may not have done.
I don’t really think you can classify the Vixen as warbird, very Intersting naval jet yes and a great tribute to DH’s long line, warbird no.
Yes I am a purist, and proud of it, however I’m not so bad as not to recognise that there has to be some change. What I am saying is that this could have been done better and still acheived the same effect. I think we will have accept that corporate involvement is inevitable and probably to a greater degree as private owners/ operators find things more difficult finnancially, but lets make sure its done sympathetically.
And I was never very keen on red spitfires or Furys, but at least they were all one coluour.

Ah Cirrus welcome aboard, I’m pretty sure I know your true indentity, if so, this forum will be all the better for your contributions. I’m pretty sure knowing you as well as I think I do that we have pretty similar views, in fact that is clear by this thread.
You have to be able to defend your views quite well on here as some members express themselves very well in the counter argument, which is of course great for debate.
Thankfully it never gets bloody !!.
This forum already has agents embedded in Duxford (Ashley) BBMF (Fluffy), a flypast correspondent (David Burke) and various folks involved in different areas of airshow/ aviation, so maybe you could fill the Old Warden slot.
I’m quite pleased that after sending you the Vixen picture you felt compelled to join this forum to air your views.
I looks however that we are in the minority at the moment on this subject.

Sounds a bit short sighted to me.
Come over here Roger we are much better at airshows, unless of course you want no queueing, lots of toilets, water points, non- obstructive PA systems, informed commentators and all at a fair price.
Ah well we can at least put up some very good aircraft.

He He,
I have just won a pair of tickets to this show compliments of those nice people at F4.
According to the latest listing the Shack will taxi.

Is Barkston Heath the airfield somewhere sort of west of Huntingdon of the A41, sorry havn’t looked at a map.