What’s happening on the Isle of Wight on July 30th?
Is it a private event?

I’ve seen it at the Goodwood Festival of Speed a couple of times, she is fantastic!! Always a spirited display by her pilot who, IIRC, is Brian Grant?

Yep. It’s Brian 🙂

Local councillors backed the move at a meeting yesterday, just as BAA released this statement to the local rag…

“We understand the desire to celebrate R J Mitchell’s achievements and we do this in a number of ways here at Southampton Airport.
These include the Spitfire Loop and Mitchell Way roads at the Airport, and a replica of the prototype Spitfire on public display in the airport terminal.

“We recently hosted the re-enactment of the first flight of the Spitfire on March 5th, which included a flypast of parts of Eastleigh and Southampton.

“We are currently sponsoring a Spitfire Exhibition at Eastleigh Museum, which opened this week and will run until May 27th.

[B]”However, we will not be renaming the Airport, as we believe the traditional, geography-based name helps passengers to easily understand out location, especially our international visitors.”[/B]

🙁

It’s already the wrong name. It’s Eastleigh Airport BAA 🙂

Loughborough used to have Hunter F.4 XE677 on its books in the 70s and 80s.
It was sold to Jet Heritage when they got the Jaguar XX765.
Tragically it crashed at Dunsfold in 1997 killing its pilot John Davies.

I think XP142 is inside Cobham Hall now, as I’m sure there was a Wasp in its spot during February.

I saw a Shorts 360 flying out of Exeter a couple of weeks ago.
First time in years I’d seen one in the air 🙂