What Prop or Pilot would you like to see back at airshows

[nostalgair2]

YOU KNOW WHAT THOUGH? ITS ALL WELL AND GOOD SLATING THESE PILOTS WHO END UP IN THE DECK, BUT THEY ARE THERE TO ENTERTAIN! MANY PEOPLE PAY THEIR MONEY TO GO TO AIRSHOWS WITH THE WHOLE IDEA OF A MISHAP BEING A BONUS! , I BET YOU COULDNT HEAR THE CRUMPLING OF THE AIRFRAME FOR CAMERA SHUTTERS! HAD HE PULLED OFF THAT RIDICULOUS 'CIRCUS STUNT' AND LIVED TO FLY ANOTHER DAY THEN I DARE SAY THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN MANY ADMIRING LOOKS AND REMARKS AS HE TAXIED IN PAST THE CROWDLINE.IT WAS A MISJUDGED MANOUVRE AND I ,IF I'M BEING TOTALLY HONEST I MISS THOSE SPIRITED DISPLAYS WHICH BEST MIMICKED THE WAY THESE AIRCRAFT WERE FLOWN WHEN IN THEIR NATURAL WARTIME ENVIRONMENT. I CAN WELL REMEMBER SOME VERY SPIRITED DISPLAYS BY SPITS AND OTHER HOT METAL AT MUCH LOWER HEIGHTS THAN ALLOWED TODAY AND THE WORLD SEEMED A BETTER PLACE FOR IT.

[Flygirl]

Hoof Proudfoot in anything of TFC's

[Moggy C]

YOU KNOW WHAT THOUGH? .....

This was in response to what?

Meanwhile, with my moderator hat on can I ask you to turn your Caps Lock off please?

Thanks,

Moggy

[92fis]

Hard just to pick one out, for me apart from those already mentioned I'd say John Larcombe in the Blenheim and John Watts in Plane Sailing's Tigercat. Two great pilots that are often overshadowed by others.

[pagen01]

This was in response to what?

This I'm guessing, I'm certainly confused?

Alternative answer: Don Bullock and the Invader. Then a lot more people would still be alive.

[Flygirl]

Norman Lees & Gary Webb (Numan) Radial Pair Team

[duxfordhawk]

It would be Ray and Mark Hanna for me too, I owe my love of aircraft in so many ways to the performances I saw them do. Gone but sure as hell not forgotten.

[Flygirl]

It would be Ray and Mark Hanna for me too, I owe my love of aircraft in so many ways to the performances I saw them do. Gone but sure as hell not forgotten.

Good Choice .

[The Blue Max]

Biggles in the BE2:diablo:

Dave

[Black Knight]

All good responses but I'd love to have seen John Derry in the Seafire 47 doing his routine with his inverted loop.

[Wyvernfan]

Hard just to pick one out, for me apart from those already mentioned I'd say John Larcombe in the Blenheim and John Watts in Plane Sailing's Tigercat. Two great pilots that are often overshadowed by others.

Did John Watts fly the Tigercat. I only remember Paul Warren-Wilson flying it!?.
But John was much admired by me in Lindsay Waltons Corsair, and he actually came over and spoke to little ole teenager ME at Mildenhall.. all because i was carrying an F4U-7 Corsair sticker


Rob

[Moggy C]

.. with his inverted loop.

There is some other kind?

Moggy

[Black Knight]

There is some other kind?

Moggy

Outside loop then???? Start upside down & push :diablo:

[92fis]

I mean't I would have liked to have seen John Watts get to fly the Tigercat. I was in a hurry earlier.

[Yak 11 Fan]

Norman Lees & Gary Webb (Numan) Radial Pair Team

Gary flying Eddie Coventy's Yak 11

[Moggy C]

Outside loop then????

That I understand

[Stan Smith]

Hi Moggy. Try straight and level ( with a bit of alt) and then push and then push 'arder and give it heaps and hope you make it round to straight and level again. Mighty hard on the eyeballs but good fun. If you don't push hard enough and run out of steam on the way up just turn it into a stall turn. Easy Peasy. (Sarky B aren't I)

[Moggy C]

No thanks. I hate negative G.

Pushed -4 once, never again

Moggy

[nostalgair2]

This was in response to you Moggy, You mention Don Bullock and it seems to me far too many people are eager to criticice him. Caps lock firmly off!

[Moggy C]

Eager? Not me, I'd much rather there were no grounds to.

Moggy

(and thanks - Caps Lock)

[Trolly Aux]

Don How Low Can you Go

[David Burke]

Unfortunately the events at Biggin Hill with the Invader speak for themselves !

[slicer]

Much missed...for those who never had the chance, here's Neil Williams coming round the bend at Old Warden to begin his peerless display in AR501.
Also remember his Tiger Moth displays, with falling leaf...beautiful.

[moocher]

Dizzy Addicott in any thing with wings -------

Jack Brown in TFCs P47 ---

Happy days.

[Firebird]

Easy for me....

Stefan Karwowski + Bearcat.

Saw Stefan's display at GWAD in 1983. Blew me away.

My choice as well, and yes that GWAD routine in '83 sticks in my memory as well..........even though it is almost 30 years ago

His displays in a Hunter were equally impressive

[RAFRochford]

Gary flying Eddie Coventy's Yak 11

Good choice Chris! Remember Gary's display in the Yak at Earls Colne in 92 for the 323rd Veterans? Great display. I think that his slipstream ruffled my toupee somewhat!!

Regards;
Steve

[hampden98]

Not sure the name of the pilot or who owned the aircraft but one display that sticks in my mind as a kid. Sea Fury (invasion stripes) at Biggin Hill in the 80's doing a perfect (and I mean perfect) 8 point hesitation roll at low level.

The other aircraft and crew sadly missed the ill fated Mossie.
Their display at Biggin Hill the year the aircraft was lost was one of the most impressive and powerful displays I've ever seen.

Of course, not forgetting the Suez painted Corsair and Lyndsay Walton (sorry bout the spelling).

[schanche]

Would have to say! Paul Bonhamme? Saw him display No Guts No Glory at Duxford ages ago just awesome! A repeat with Snafu would be stunning!
But have to agree the Hanna's warbird legends I miss them so much "The Master's"

[The Blue Max]

Not sure the name of the pilot or who owned the aircraft but one display that sticks in my mind as a kid. Sea Fury (invasion stripes) at Biggin Hill in the 80's doing a perfect (and I mean perfect) 8 point hesitation roll at low level.
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I would think that would have been Pete Shepard in the RNHF FB11

[Sideslip]

I would think that would have been Pete Shepard in the RNHF FB11

I remember as a kid being taken to Seething airshow. We stopped in the queue of traffic waiting to get in at the best possible place, directly in line with the runway, and just at the right time Sea Fury TF956 came in to land. Gear and flaps down, and low level right over the top of our car. Life just doesn't get much better than that.