"Some aerobatic plane at Duxford"...
Wouldn't have been something called a Spitfire, by any chance? Funny looking old aeroplane, silly pointy wings, usually painted sludge green and brown. Makes a horrible racket. Gets lost when the railway points change. No room for golf clubs. Pretty useless really.
I only mention this because the speeds you describe for hot-ship mega-circuits are only a bit slower than those used by early Spitfires. Later ones approach a bit faster (say120 knots in an Mark XIV), but somehow they manage to fly their circuits inside the airfield.
Last edited by FNG; 30th March 2004 at 06:58.