Great show! Particularly liked Kiwi 757's after take off antics and never having seen Utterly Butterly in action before I liked them a lot too
Pitty about the Red's calling off the show due the TRA infringement.
I had a small airband receiver with me at the show yesterday and shortly after the Red's called Kemble to announce their arrival someone Mayday'd. The Black Cats (Lynx Copters) and Delta Jets were loitering about in the air at the time. I didn't catch the callsign of the aircraft declaring. After the red's landed the Mayday was downgraded to a Pan. A short while later the question was asked, "Are you 100% sure you want to display?" and the display appeared to continue as normal. Made for interesting listening for a PPL student like me. The Tornado's aborted takeoff too was also a point of interest to me.
I hung about quite a bit longer than joe public as I knew most of the aircraft were departing shortly after the display. Snapped quite a few of you GA folk on your take off rolls and climbout into the orange hue'd clouds but unfortunately none of the shots turned out particularly well.
As the Red's departed someone was descending dead side. Lined up on 26 and cleared for take off the Red's punched their throttles and turned on their landing lights in perfect sync as only the military can. A few seconds later all the noise and action ended - landing lights off and throttles at idle again in perfect sync. Stern mention was then made of the fact the Reds do not fly with anyone in the airspace. Kemble Info and the guy descending dead side began discussing their options - The reds jumped in to the conversation and instructed the descending traffic to remain 2000ft AT ALL TIMES!!! (mentally insert various military style threats) How can you argue with that
Hehe. The Red's flew off and the guy eventually joined the circuit and landed.
All good. Thanks to all who worked to make the show happen. Thoroughly enjoyed myself