Lovely stuff!

Anything to do with electricity companies or Australian rock bands?

Paul

The weather on Sunday looks better. It will be good to see the Vimy replica again (a browse in the photo album shows its been quite a few years since the last appearance). Nice too to see the Sea Hawk again (Vixen would be better, maybe next year).
Interesting experience last year: we had just left the airfield and were driving past the perimeter fence just as the Reds were opening up for a formation take-off. Ours is a mid-size family car, but boy did it rock in the breeze! Sent quite a few freeloaders (sorry, spectators/photographers situated outside the event) running for cover!!

No Reds this year sadly as we all know. It was 2006 when I finally appreciated them properly. I’ve always preferred warbirds to display teams and modern military planes. But I was converted in 2006.

Plus the fact that my brother’s old schoolfriend is now Red Three makes it even more of a shame that they are not here.

Paul

Two stunt planes in close formation just flew over Caterham Valley.

G-APSA

I’m the Air Atlantique Douglas DC-6A.

That’s cheered me up.

Paul

I regularly see the aircraft you describe, single throaty radial. It definately isnt a Yak 11 though. Ive seen it enough to know that much. But I dont know for sure what it is either.

Back to the old drawing board for me then. Sadly, the other residents wont want me standing in the communal garden with a pair of powerful binoculars…

I thought I heard and saw a familiar sound/shape of a Spitfire last night heading in the Biggin direction. It was quite far off though. I can neither confirm or deny this though.

Paul

Living where I do a few miles from Biggin, over the past few months I have several times heard the rumble of a nice throaty radial engine in the distance – by standing on my garden seat I can just make out what seems to be a single-engine monoplane type (?possibly a Yak?11), but it is frustratingly quite a way off. The aircraft seems to be flying due West from Biggin, over Warlingham and heading towards (?Redhill). Ring any bells? If so, please fly a bit further N-W over Selsdon next time! 🙂

It must have been a Yak 11 I saw on Friday afternoon then. When I used to live in Big-Gin I remember seeing them fly around quite a lot.

Paul