Re. Mike Thompson - he was indeed a superb pilot - watched him at the IAT 83 & again shortly after at St Mawgan. I think at SM he departed later in the day together with Simon Lloyd-Morrison in his F4 - a truly wonderful & noisy experience!
Sadly, of course only 2 weeks later he was killed @ Scarborough. This event has always intrigued me. I've read on here about him having an argument with higher authority and taking off in a bad mood, but surely he must have been aware that displaying as he did and defying an order would have probably led to a Court Martial?
Remember it happening as if it were yesterday, although 'yesterday' will be 31 years ago in a couple of months!
