The NT were approached a while a ago and were very supportive of the event, it meant that there was 900m from end to end but it also meant that the east end hedge was removed making the approach slightly better for the Spitfire. The organisers did a terrific job and were rewarded with some good weather and a big crowd for a remote part of Devon! I hope the Charities did well. Two terrific displays by the Hurricane (Keith Dennison) and the Spitfire (Anthony Hodgson). There is a short clip on youtube – love the sound! Due to the strong crosswind and narrow runway Anthony elected to land at Plymouth after the display as any deviation from the runway would of caused a nose over in the soft ground.
The event was graced by a number of veteran pilots including a 41 Sqd veteran who flew from Bolt Head in 1944. We were fortunate to be staying at the Cottage Hotel at Hope Cove which was used as the Officers Mess and still had the wooden panels above the fireplace with the names of aircrew scratched into it! There was also a number of photographs of the aircrews at Bolt Head and Hope Cove so it made for an interesting evening.

Hear Hear – a well deserved award!

Hmmm PT462 has a Packard Merlin.

Thank you for your kind words Welsh_HTE, display was for the NE Wales Veterns Assoc. who were holding an event at the Ffrith Beach venue. Spitfire was the local one PT462 owned by Mr Anothony Hodgson.

Hope its not the same one that lasted around 10 seconds at Cosford!

There was a lot of sucking of teeth (and some expletives) on the flight line when that red glider came up behind the static aircraft!! The picture shows he still has around 135 deg of roll left to complete with the Stbd wing yet to go past mother earth. It was close, the wing tip was certainly below the height of the tailplanes of the static line up as it went around – eeeek. I feel there must surely of been a chat with the FDD after.

Fantastic take off but unfortunetly not problem free. Stbd lead ucarridge door wouldnt close even after a recycle so planned flight test looks like it will have to be scrubbed with Vulcan returning early to Brunters. I suspect a knock on effect as crew availability to complete required flight testing may be a issue.
Still an amazing site after all these years.

There was a show after the Harrier incident which I to was at. The following year we couldnt get to the event due to bad weather we we were which was a pain as we were only 20mins flying time away. Believe the weather was a problem at the event as well and the club suffered with low attendance and this put a hole in the clubs finances.

As far as Im aware there are no plans for future show due as usual to a variety of reasons eg number of people required to actually commit long term to organise and put on the event, yes Insurance costs, you wouldnt believe how much the police want to organise traffic flow and “police” this basically regional airshow and all the other costs associated with a show and thats before you start looking at aircraft costs!