I have to say that I was disappointed with the show. I only managed the Friday last year and as it was only on the Saturday this year I was expecting a jam packed show. There were large gaps when nothing was happening and the Lightning chute failure and subsequent bolt to CPT sounded a bit planned!
Enjoyed having Ian Pringle on the PA describing what was going on when the Lightning did its record attempt rather then BE. Would love to see the view of being vertical as one goes through 30 000 feet. Heard the clearance he asked for and got at CPT the day before for his practice run. Straight ahead to 600 kts and then a climb averaging around 70 000 ft/min to FL300.
I was only able to get there at about noon but what I was hoping to see that wasn’t there, but was on the SAAF Museum website were Rooivalk, Cheetah’s x 3, Shak etc.
Although it was a cloudless hot day the pilots did a good job in coping with the strong wind, which was fortunately down the runway.
Ts