C-GZIC arrived on Tuesday afternoon, followed shortly afterwards by ZZ190 which performed numerous touch and goes.

Lovely to see them, but not the most sexiest Hawker product to be seen this week:D

Yes I heard about that, or rather I heard about the ‘Firefly’ flying on Wednesday from the chap I met in the field.
Thursday was probably the best morning spent at Yeovilton for a long time, in terms of ‘non-event’ activity.

Just uploaded it now…

Kemble Open Day – August 2000

Another one just added!
This features the Scandinavian Historic Flight A-26 invader, and at the time the Old Flying Machine Company’s ‘new’ Hunter, T.8C XF357, painted up as the prototype T.7 XJ615.

As said previously, the footage has been ‘grayscaled’, the colour was all over the shop throughout the recording. Some bits were fine, others black/white, most just persistant flashes of colour!

Comments welcome!

My Kemble duck was broken with the Open Day in August 1999 – XF516 flew in with a yellow nose-wheel door and no Sqn markings.
The Meteor performed ground runs, and the Jordanian Historic Flight F.58 was also in attendance before flying off to Cranfield I think?

There was also one staged in August 2000 and in May 2001.
The latter saw some awful weather, I remember the Golden Apple T-33A taking off, flew into a thunderstorm and came into land again!
The pilot then waited for the storm to pass before taking off again.

I have some footage of the August event which I will be capturing.
It’ll be in black/white though as our camcorder was on its last legs 🙂