Did anyone notice the girls on top of the Breitling team stearmans cover their faces due to the rain during their display? Even more surprised they got off the top wing into the cockpit in the rain as well. Very impressed they carried on in really bad weather.

I went with the Mrs and got there about 3pm. Wasnt really sure that it was open when parked up as couldnt see any one around. However went into the portacabin to be told that the DC6 was running up. I dont know if it was the weather or the late time i got there but hardly any one there, maybe 50, THIS IS NOT A CRITICISM but an observation.

The access was fantastic, we were shown inside the Nimrod which was very interesting and could have gone in a DC3, the Hughes 500 was easy to gain external access to and the smell of new paint in the hanger was very obvious. If you havent been before then GO it is worth it.

We left at 5pm to go the Lickey Incline to see Princess Elizabeth steam up with a banker, when we got there, standing in a field i overheard the person next to me talking about been on a DC6! When i asked he had been at Coventry and he and is wife were identifable on my photos!!!

can you show us a larger view?

With all the talk of the Nimrod arriving (will post pics later) i dug out my pics of the Victor arrival, not many but she is in the air!! (and not Bruntingthorpe style) I will scan them one day and add them here, pretty sure i took video as well but would have to look for that.

Met him a few times at Aces High and Duxford, im pretty sure he told me he drove to Duxford in his Skoda and told me the mpg!!!, he also told me once the tale of crash landing in a field in Kent, the picnic and the pub when he was at the Vector stand on his own. Will miss his Hat and tie he always wore.RIP

Was a bit of sun before then went cold and rained on way home, suppose they are used to that weather. Lets see where the next 3 go on the following Tuesdays

PRESS RELEASE FROM RAF KINLOSS

EVENTS TO COMMEMORATE THE END OF MR2

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The Nimrod MR2 will mark its last operational flight with a flypast of airfields in the north of Scotland as well as Guernsey (to mark 201’s affiliation) and Woodford near Manchester where the Nimrod – as an MR1 was manufactured 41 years ago on Wed 31 March at 1400 hrs.