I dare say I could probably wake a few people up in Elvington even at 20mph.

As regards consideration there was none shown to the thousands of racing fans who would like to see more activity at Croft, say perhaps back to the same level of activity there was before our friend bought his property.

Suspect this might have been the activities of car clubs so not motor racing as such. If this is the case the cars using the airfield facilities would be road legal, the irony being that they could drive right through Elvington village (which is about 2 miles from the airfield) and the residents would just have to put up with it.

Good point. Plenty of canopies disappeared on take off when the pilot failed to lock them correctly. All it needed was about 130 kts IAS.

In addition to the wheels up landings descibed by Salad Fingers there were also four cases of failed take offs where the aircraft sank back onto the runway after the gear had been raised. In each case the aircraft ended up in the overshoot area but the pilots were uninjured. Despite what was said at the time it was certainly possibe to put a Lightning down gear up.

Early Red Arrows helmet was white overall with a red arrow on the top with the pilot’s number. Red Pelicans possibly?

It was all very interesting until Gordon Brown appeared for interview.

Lovely photos again. Spit V BM597 did a super 10 min display at Castle Howard (Yorks) Proms in the Park around 1945 hrs.

Peter