Originally Posted by
chevvron
Needless to say, when he pushed over to level off at 2000ft, he accelerated rapidly to about 500kts. ie above the 'legal' speed limit ( for a civil aircraft ) of 250kts.
But then I remember Duncan Simpson doing a 'demo' flight around Guildford in a Hawk and asking 'is 350 knots OK here' and I also watched John take VTOL from Dunsfold to Bedford and I timed it as 7 minutes!
I don't know what the airspace looked like then, but these days you wouldn't have to be that high to do more or less the whole thing in Class A anyway, and presumably there was a RAT for the airshow.