My first, and so far only, airshow was the last one organised by Air Atlantique at Coventry, in 2002. Was developing into an excellent day, great displays by the Blenheim, Canberra, Breitling Fighters and Sea Vixen until tragedy struck when the Spirit of St Louis replica crashed, right in front of my eyes. Apart from that it was a good day with perfect weather, I hope one day Air Atlantique do another show.

Sure is great isn’t it! Hopefully be going again before too long, everything about the place is fantastic

Very nice photos, cheers for sharing them. Interesting car in the glass case type thing outside, did it say what sort of car it was?

It does appear slightly clouded on my webshots album, though it could have been caused by my camera.

The Hampden is being worked on by two people, there was one person dedicated to it but he sadly died, it’s his picture which is propped up by the fuselage. As far as I know the ultimate goal is to restore the forward fuselage, would be nice to try and get a whole one (ie with the rear tail and wings from the Hunt brothers example) but, like everything, it needs manpower and money, both sadly lacking. Doesn’t hurt to drop a couple of quid into the donation box everytime you go though

Very nice – for pure aesthetics you can’t beat an Auster!

Nice pics, what’s the high-winged aircraft with what appear to be contra-rotating props behind the 707B?