I see what you mean – google images throws up a startling number of quite different looking aircraft under the heading of Siskin, obviously all variations on the theme, but no photo that I;ve found yet good enough resolution to confirm or refute that.

Adrian

May I refer you to the first sentence of my opening post, gemtlemen? It seems being facetious is misleading round these parts.

Adrian

Well, I’m very interested in those responses – I was deliberately being provocative, and lots of well-thought out replies. This would have been the weekend before the Invader crash at Biggin Hill – I wonder if Don Bullock was flying Sally B that day? – which itself changed airshow flying regs.

Here’s another show – note the disclaimer about the weather! It absolutely threw it down that day and I suspect that flying was abandoned though, being 10 at the time, memories are a bit vague. I recall the Storch plopping onto the runway like a helicopter, and the announcement that Douglas Bader had died, but other than being very, very wet I don’t recall a lot else.

Interestingly I can’t see a Vulcan in either programme – I’m sure I remember being transfixed as a Vulcan passed slowly overhead. Maybe it was a Wethersfield show?

Adrian