For the first time in 2 years the weather has been good for the largest free airshow in the UK
a mixed bag of aircraft and ground based events are entertaining the crowds over the two day bank holiday event
The land based displays from the armed forces careers were doing a brisker than usual trade in enquires
The increase IMO as a result in the current economic down turn.
Anyhow here is a mixed bag of images from this years event.
Afraid not Eric her name is Kirsty Joly shes the oldest of the current team at 35.infact the Stearman was the oldest in their team as well.
I thought it was a good show unfortunately the sheduled B25 and Apachi failed to show, what did bug me was the the RAF falcons parachute team are having to use an Islander aircraft as all the Hercules are on ops in Iraq and Afgahnistan makes me wonder what would happen if this nation got committed to anything bigger than current deployments.
If the MOD hadnt made such a **** up on the Chinook upgrade fiasco we could have spent some of the wasted £500 million on a few more fixed wing logistic aircraft to support our guys.