30th Anniversary
 

Gents


It was on August 22nd 1987 that the final air show at RAF Binbrook took place, which makes you stop and think.
Gosh where have those years gone? :rolleyes:

ISTR it pissed down. I have a photo somewhere of IB doing about .98 and getting a photo of a perfect shock wave. Had a great time there in Handbrake House 80-82

:uhoh:

The Last, Last Lightning Show as billed IIRC.

That stream take-off and return over runway burner pull-ups in the strange yellow gloom and pouring rain is still etched in my memory :ok::cool:


But, 30 years ago :\

It doesn't seem to have been that long since that very wet day! Come to think of it, if I am only 35 how could it be that long?

Fond memories ....

Having said that the wife went down with bronchitis after for which I was eternally blamed.

The multiple lightning take-off and vertical into the cloud brought a tear to the eye though

seem to recall a certain Shytorque drove a Puma there for that show

I seem to recall it was Chris Allan,who was leaving not Ian.

V1

I was there too, I remember the rain, the weird sky and the multiple take-offs, and a strange sense of melancholy.

Eldest son, now 45 was with me that day. says he remembers it vividly, especially the rain. Also on another occasion (retirement of John Platts) a planned overflight of Neatishead, which somehow resulted in a zoom over the Bacton Gas Terminal