Ok – here are a few to be going on with. Not really a “historic” show, but there were a few points of interest: –

I think Mr Langham hit the nail on the head. There is little point holding the show in early/mid July – there are few tourists here at the moment.

There are some, but I can still drive to work and back in an hour and forty mins.

I live in Plymouth and am currently working in Camborne – near Redruth.

Must change my signature, which suggests something else at this time.

Hi RobAnt,

As an ex-Helstonian I was very interested in your thread. In fact my Dad (who still lives in Helston) was also at Culdrose yesterday and mentioned the Seahawk incident to me. He too thought it looked as if the brake had locked on eventually bursting the tyre.

Re your point about the mighty Sea Vixen, I too have thought that it has been quite conspicuous in it’s absence from several major airshows this year, particularly the classic jets airshow at Kemble – the very airshow you would expect it to attend! Perhaps it has something to do with the Red Bull sponsorship or perhaps they are just trying to conserve flying hours etc. Either way it has been sorely missed by me at least!

BTW – do you have any more pics from CU that you could post?

Cheers

Nick

Yes – but they need to be “processed” and I’m really quite pushed. I’ll see what I can do quickly – like the two above – which came straight off the camera and quickly resized and compressed.

There was one static – in raspberry ripple colours, or similar.

On checking – yes, she was there, but didn’t fly in the display.

Those must be Sky Blue Aviation colours? A JP in similar colours displayed.

Edit:

I’m talking rubbish, as usual – it was XW289:

Maybe the brake locked – but she didn’t swerve, or twist off the runway, or anything – at least not that I noticed.

(Would that be a ground loop? – Never quite sure what that means.)