Eric Dumigan has posted his shot’s including the air to air Dave was right they are amazing. He had the right pilot none better than John Aitken to put the Harvard where you want it. You could hear that Harvard over the eight Merlins as John put it into position. I liked Rob’s comments about the Harvard it has 600 horses, 150 for thrust and 450 for sound!
Its interesting I have never heard the term Battle of Britian Memorial Flight applied to this event offically that is reserved for the good people in the UK, I like Eric’s term Merlin Flight.
The link for the Open House is here:
http://www.airic.ca/html/vwocopenhouse1.html
And the Battle of Britian Ceremony is here:
http://www.airic.ca/html/bob.html

Can’t take credit for the pictures a friend let me post them don’t have time for photos when working. Besides you guys do such a better job.
Unfortunately VWOC have crossed the line with the open house format there is no way TC will accept the current format. The big concern is that the great atmosphere will be lost. This is a show put on by the pilots and the quality of people who fly and work on the aircraft shows that. When we showed up first thing in the morning the Canadian Harvard guys were soloing in the Hurricane MkIV and Peter Spence was flying the VWC Spit.

And next year they will add a P40 to the mix, sweet. Mike’s always looking you never know what will end up on the hangar floor next, but he’s almost out of room. I find it interesting that Rob almost always fly’s the Hurricane with the canopy open must ask him why one of these days.

There are only two open houses scheduled at Vintage wings this year the next one will be for the Battle of Britian Weekend Sept. 20th. there should be some interesting aircraft available for that one.
The intent was to keep things low key this year in anticipation of events in 2009 the 100th anniversary of flight in Canada. However their airshow schedule looks fairly busy.
I like the idea that they aren’t airshows it gives a more relaxed flavour and lets you talk with the pilots about their experiences.
This was Paul Kissman’s first flight in the Corsair, I hesitate to say solo as how else can you check out in a single seat fighter. He seemed to have little problems mastering this beast. Mind you he is a graduate of the Empire Test Pilots School in Boscombe Down, England.
This weekends event at CWH in Hamilton should bring some of that flavour back.