Just thought I’d say what a great display from the Sea Vixen at the B/mth Air Festival on Sunday.

A fantastic display of noise, power and aerobatics that made full use of the clear blue skies over the seafront.

Well done to the pilot Simon Hargreaves and all at DS Aviation.

Great display at Shoreham too, there had been a bit of a gap yesterday waiting for the Sea Vixen to transit along from Bournemouth, when it did arrive it caught many of the long lens brigade off guard prompting mutterings about the commentary……tee hee.
Lovely to see it again.

R.I.P. Red 4

Apparently ITN have reported that this is a fatality, looking for a source now

edit: still looking, cannot find any confirmation of this apart from a post on PPRune

BBC now saying the airport is open again – would this be the case if this was a fatality?

It doesnt involve the airfield now, so I suppose business goes on as usual.

At the bottom of the link in post #1.

So it does:o

I don’t think the BBMF do it unless they are ex RAF pilots in the others. And judging by what happened at Legends you cannot blame them.

Thats a good point.
Both Paul Day and Al Pinner have gone back and flown with the BBMF on the odd occasion, so it seems quite understandable that they stick with who they know and trust.

I got hold of a nice copy of ‘Angels,Bulldogs and Dragons’ by Bill Marshall, well worth a look if you are a 355th fan.

“The tip of his wing caught my undercarriage” he probably said empenage, but the journo either misheard, didn’t understand the nasty foreign sounding word or else just made the whole lot up…..

That had me wondering too.

Strong Parachutes of Florida have a great product there, worth every penny of the £1864.

The DX bump is so bad, the forum thread hit it and drifted completely off course:rolleyes: