I was there, I enjoyed it. It was different from the norm and seemed to please most of the visitors. There were a few who were expecting a larger air display and a few frustrated at not being able to sit in the cockpits but overall it got my vote. Highlight for me was helping a WWII vereran to get back in to a Blenheim for the first time in 62 years and listening to the memories flooding back (massive thanks to the guys at ARCo for that).

PS: SE5fan, the silver IWM Spit is a Mk 24.

Mark 12,

Besides having an absolutely marvellous name you are absolutely correct.

Haydon-Baillie did indeed rescue a good number of Spits from India in 1977 including MT719, but Mr Arnold (in my opinion the founder of the warbird preservation movement as we know it today) was already doing it (rescuing Spits from the sub-continent) rather quietly and rather successfully.

Hmm – now what about this new Spit at ARCO/HFL?

Absolutely correct, few weeks ago – engine quit but pilot unhurt.

Don’t worry, its the thought that counts.

Snapper. is it just the TF variety of mustang that leaves you cold (does that stand for Tom Friedkin I wonder?).

Damien,

I am sure no one could have possibly meant to insult you. Any remarks are, I assure you, good natured at heart, just does’nt always appear so.

Droptank, perhaps you are already on the plane to the Gulf as we speak….

Quite possible I would have thought, perhaps even likely.