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Old 2nd Jul 2015, 07:11
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I remember several Tiger Club shows at Redhill particularly O'Brien's commentaries and crazy flying! The last one was 1987, a great show but poignant with two of the performing aircraft with three lives lost the following weekend in separate accidents elsewhere.

I seem to recall one year (1985?) the weather was pretty horrid and Ray Hanna's "flat act" in the Spitfire stayed well within the airfield boundary and below the scud.

The first time I had a look round the TC hangar in early January 1978 I was astounded - Tigers, Stampes, Turbs, Condors, Cosmic Winds (and not the well known Ballerina!), Cassutts, Betas, Jodels, Cub, RF-4, Bill Wilkes' newly finished Sturgeonair Mustang, Currie Wot... all stuffed within, and the next time I was there the Mew Gull had been squeezed in too. Not a nose wheel or piece of tin (yes, yes, the Cosmics and maybe the Mustang were metal) in sight.
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