Nice one Rab… this brings back painful memories to me… That was going to be my first ever airshow,going with my uncle and all my cousins in a big camper van.. and on the friday i was doing what silly 5 year olds get up to… doing my balancing act on a metal fence in a local football field and slipped and broke my collar bone… so..no PIK airshow for me!!:mad:
THANKS RAB!!!:mad::mad::diablo:
Actually i just recently had a look at some super 8 film my uncle took of the show featuring Vulcan,Concorde and some other mil types i have no idea about.
Sorry to make an aside… thought i’d share a story about i think it was the 1983 air show.. there was big rumours that the NASA Space shuttle may do a fly by or even land (on the back of it’s 747 of course) well it was a very hot day and some Jaguars had just done their display and nowt else was due to display for about 25 mins, so everyone was streaming back towards the hangars for some shelter or to get a drink, i stayed at the line waiting, i glanced left and caught sight of something far out on approach, grabbed my bincs and could just make out wings,nose etc.. of an aircraft which looked like it had something on it’s roof, and shouted out at full volume. “It’s the Space Shuttle!!” which caused a stampede of ageing and young spotters back to the line just in time to see a………………..Falcon 50 land!!!:o
Luckily i was a gangly young skinny thing with fast legs and ran inside a Jetstream hangar to hide LOL… sorry to anyone who threw their cold beer down and got crushed trying to get their camera gear out.
Am thinking, does anyone know if this was the same show in which a BA 707 diverted in during the show on a PAN landing on 1 engine and clearing the perimeter fence by about 10 feet? remember folk thinking the fire engines tearing down the runway after her was part of the show!!!
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